AlienVault closes new financing round of $52 million

AlienVault has closed a $52 million Series E funding round, which brings the company’s total funding raised to nearly $116 million. New investor Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) led the round with strong participation from existing investors, including Trident Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and GGV Capital. As part of the funding, Steve Harrick, General Partner at IVP, will join the board of directors as an observer. The company will use the funding to scale its global...

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Tufin appoints Kevin Maloney as Senior Vice President of Global Sales

Experienced enterprise and SaaS sales leader to lead the charge with Tufin’s global sales strategy, expansion and field execution.

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Three quarters of UK businesses at risk of future data breaches

Informatica has revealed that only a quarter of U.K. businesses believe their organisation could detect a data breach at any time, and just 33 per cent say their organisation is very good to excellent at detecting and containing breaches. Meanwhile, nearly half (49 per cent) of respondents admit to having experienced a breach in the past 12 months and believe it could have been avoided if certain processes and intelligent technologies had been in place.

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Case Study: @nifty Delivering IT Security to Their Customers with Kaspersky

NIFTY Corporation is one of the leading Telecoms and Internet Service Providers in Japan, supplying high-speed broadband connectivity to more than 1.39 million broadband users. Providing robust security for the many subscribers to its online services is very important because repeated security breaches or loss of service may result in customers suffering damage or losses - and ultimately leaving NIFTY and moving to competitors' services.

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