The Cybersecurity Pulse (TCP)

This week's The Cybersecurity Pulse (TCP) is LIVE! ?? Key highlights: ????♂?Deep dive on Google’s $32B acquisition of Wiz + what it could mean for the industry ??Israeli startup in stealth has raised $65M at a valuation btwn $200-400M.?Could they be the next Wiz??Gili Raanan may think so. ??The state of ‘vibe coding’ ?? Varonis acquires Cyral. Next-gen database activity monitoring (DAM) ????♂? ?? DryRun Security wins RailsGoat bake-off against traditional SAST James Wickett, Ken Johnson ??New research reports from Red Canary and GitGuardian. Personal favorites. ?? Prompt Security adds authorization capabilities to secure enterprise AI use ?? Bedrock Security launches a metadata lake ?? More product news from Cloudflare, Tumeryk, et. al. ??Fundraising from Pentera and VulnCheck Link: https://lnkd.in/esyuPvdr Huge thanks to our sponsor, Scanner.dev who is reinventing the SIEM game! ??

Another BIG week for The Cybersecurity Pulse (TCP)! ???? Key highlights: ???Zscaler blow out Q2 earnings report ?? Ross Haleliuk’s presentation to 36 startup founders @ AWS x NVIDIA x CrowdStrike startup accelerator ???Sola Security?deep dive. They emerged from stealth w/ $30M in funding.?Retool, but for security imo. ??? More Cybereason drama + $120M in funding ???Inside the Network crew sits down w/ Jeetu Patel to discuss the future of Cisco's security business ?? Varonis launches security for Salesforce Agentforce ?? Findings from Wiz State of AI in the Cloud Report. Self-hosting FTW Amitai Cohen, Alon Schindel ?? Ghost Security ?? open-sources their ReaperBot Greg Martin ?? Crogl, Inc. emerges from stealth. AI for SecOps built by fmr. Splunk, Databricks, and HSBC leadership monzy merza ?? Link: https://lnkd.in/etYtectQ Huge thanks to our sponsors, Jit and Intezer ????. This newsletter is a labor of love and provided to the community for free. This wouldn’t be possible without the support of our sponsors ???? #cybersecurity

BIG week for The Cybersecurity Pulse (TCP) ?? Key highlights: ?? Okta smashed Q4 FY25 earnings and hits record profitability ?? CrowdStrike beats earnings and becomes first security vendor to hit $1B in sales on the AWS Marketplace ??5 questions CISOs should prep on before meeting with the board - Emily Heath ?? JFrog partners with NVIDIA and Hugging Face. Launches MLOps solution ?? Knostic raises $11M Series A to stop LLM oversharing Gadi Evron ?? Opus Security tackling vulnerability management with AI agents ?? Mimic raises $50M Series A from GV, Menlo, Ballistic, Team8 et. al. Ransomware defense rocket ship ??? ConductorOne marries NHI security to the rest of identity via their unified platform Alex Bovee ??Red Canary launches Security Data Lake offering ?? Monad February product release notes ?? Obsidian Security partners w/ SentinelOne. Link: https://lnkd.in/e8fv4uXD Huge thanks to our newest sponsors, Varonis and Scanner.dev ????. This newsletter is a labor of love and provided to the community for free. This wouldn’t be possible without the support of our sponsors ????

?? Here’s what’s new this month at Monad! ?? OCSF Transformation - We’ve launched beta support for the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF). ?? Secrets Management - Centralized credential handling solution that simplifies managing secrets across tools and integrations. Update credentials once, and they propagate automatically. This is a game-changer for testing different pipeline configs! ?? New Integrations: Box Users+Events, Jira Roles+Users, Slack Users+Groups, Google Cloud Asset Inventory, and Wiz Issues. If you'd like to learn more, DM us or shoot us an email at [email protected]! Link: https://lnkd.in/dHpaz2zk

Our friends over at Anvilogic and SANS Institute recently published the 2025 State of Detection Engineering (DE) report and it's a must-read for anyone in the SecOps space. What makes the report special is that they put the voice of the DE community center stage by surveying 250+ DEs and security leaders to get a pulse on tradecraft evolution, emerging trends, and skill gaps. To no surprise, they mention data engineering 29 times (!!) in the report, underscoring its growing role in DE workflows ?? Many actionable takeaways to help detection engineering teams mature detection flows, level up skill-wise, and scale with the emerging threat landscape. ?? Check out our write up with key takeaways here: https://lnkd.in/eiKNMifG Full report in the comments. Let us know if there's anything you found surprising from the report! #DetectionEngineering #DataEngineering #SecDataOps

This week's The Cybersecurity Pulse (TCP) is LIVE! ?? HUGE week. Key highlights: ??? Dani Woolf covers why rip-and-replace is often a non-starter in security sales + a better approach ?? Earnings season coverage from Mike Privette and Cole Grolmus ?? $NET, $FTNT, $TENB, $VRNS ++ ?? 7AI emerges from stealth w/ $36M seed from Greylock, CRV++ and many AI agents ??? Backline AI emerges from stealth w/ $9M seed to tackle security backlogs w/ AI agents ???? Wiz and Checkpoint partner on cloud security. Wiz will inherit Checkpoint's CNAPP customers. ?? Drata acquires SafeBase for "a quarter of a billion dollars" ???? Francis Odum drops another banger of a report with "Securing the Identity Attack Surface" ?? Splunk launches AI-powered honeypot that generates synthetic data ... all this and so much more in TCP #74 ???? Link: https://lnkd.in/e7D4EKsz Huge thanks to this week's sponsor, Intezer! ????

This week's The Cybersecurity Pulse (TCP) is LIVE! ?? Key highlights: ?? Inside look at how Palantir Technologies secures their SDLC (3-part series) ?? SailPoint seeks re-IPO at a $11.5B valuation ?? Oasis Security launches a public NHI threat intel DB ?? Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launches Red-C project to reinvent firmware security ?? The latest on the DeepSeek kerfuffle from a privacy/security perspective ?? Jay Beale + Mark Manning's K8s security Shmoocon presentation ?? Legit Security launches root cause remediation capabilities ???? Seraphic Security raises $29M for browser security ?? AttackIQ acquires DeepSurface Security #CTEM ... All this and much more in TCP #73 ???? Huge thanks to this week's sponsor, Prophet Security! They have the market leading AI for SOC solution. If you'd like to learn more about automating tedious Tier 1 SOC analyst tasks, hit them up using the link in the comments! Kamal Shah

This week's The Cybersecurity Pulse (TCP) is LIVE! ?? Key highlights: ??? Anton Chuvakin and Jack Naglieri share spicy thoughts on autonomous and agentic SecOps stuff ?? DryRun Security raises $8.7m seed round to continue disrupting AppSec???? Ken Johnson James Wickett ????♂? DeepSeek drama ?? Bruce Scheneier's piece on how AI mistakes are different from human mistakes ???? Opengrep ?? Cisco and Endor Labs each launch AI security tools ?? Maya Kaczorowski's piece on authentication for AI agents.. It's just OAuth. ?? Token Security raises $20m series A. Eclypsium, Inc. $45m series C. ?? Monad's January product release notes ?? TENEX.AI comes out of stealth. MDR for Google Cloud. Backed by a16z. ???? Much more covered in the newsletter. Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/eEXJ-nDJ Huge thanks to this week's sponsor Jit! They've built an amazing AppSec platform with a truly unified experience. Happy to be collaborating with such a smart group of folks.

January's product release notes are live! ?? Over the past month, we've launched 10 new integrations and added support for connection tests for all inputs. This is key as it reduces the risk of common connector errors like misconfigurations?prior to deployment. New connectors include: ?? Azure Activity Logs + Entra ID logs ??? GitHub Audit Logs ???? Tines Event Logs ?? Duo Security Authentication + Admin Logs ?? Slack Users + Groups ?? MongoDB Organization Events Full post here: https://lnkd.in/eyQ97gJt #ETL #Cybersecurity #DataEngineering?

The Cybersecurity Pulse (TCP) first issue of 2025 is LIVE! ?? Key highlights: ??? Why you shouldn't trust vendor claims about getting 100% on MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations Allie Mellen ?? Master class by Jack Naglieri on what's to come next for security data storage and analytics platforms #Iceberg #SecDataOps ???? Wiz releases their 2025 Cloud Security predictions and their public facing integrations and partnerships page. Proud to be a part of WIN via Monad ?? Veracode acquires Phylum ?? SandboxAQ raises another massive round. $300M valued at $5.3B ?? .. and more.. so much more! Link: https://lnkd.in/edexv5hU