Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley is a senior writer at SiliconANGLE covering Startups, Bitcoin, and the Internet of Things. Duncan is a co-founder of VC funded media company B5Media and founder of news site The Inquisitr, and was a senior writer at TechCrunch in its earlier days. Tips? Press releases? Intersting startup? email: duncan@nichenet.com.au or contact Duncan on Twitter @duncanriley

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New Adlumin ransomware protection feature thwarts encryption attacks

Security operations platform startup Adlumin Inc. today announced a new ransomware prevention feature that immediately detects and stops ransomware from encrypting files. Called Adlumin Ransomware Protection, the feature kills ransomware in seconds and save 99% of files from encryption in the event of a ransomware attack, according to the company. The 99% figure is based on testing ...

Sonrai Security simplifies cloud access and permissions with new firewall service

Public cloud security startup Sonrai Security Inc. today announced a new firewall solution for Amazon Web Services Inc., Azure and Google Cloud that offers one-click least privilege with zero disruption for cloud operations and development teams. Called Cloud Permissions Firewall, the new service is said to transform the complex landscape of cloud access and permissions security into ...

Cloudflare bolsters full-stack development with new suite of management tools

Cloudflare Inc. today announced the general availability of four new products that are focused on making full-stack management easier for developers. The first GA release, D1, is a global, serverless SQL database designed to be ultra-reliable and scale up while not losing data. D1 offers support for 10-gigabyte databases and 50,000 databases per account. It also ...

New Tanium-Microsoft partnership provides endpoint data to Copilot for Security

Cybersecurity software provider Tanium Inc. today announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft Corp. to provide data to Copilot for Security, the software and cloud giant’s artificial intelligence-driven security service. The partnership sees Tanium providing real-time endpoint data and intelligence directly into Copilot for Security, allowing users to gain access to data that helps eliminate blind spots. The data ...

AT&T confirms data from 73M customers exposed on dark web

Telecommunications company AT&T Inc. has confirmed that personal data relating to 73 million of its past and present customers that made its way onto the dark web recently is believed to have been from 2019 or earlier. The data in question first appeared for sale on the now defunct Raid Forums hacking forum in 2021 ...

Cloud data privacy solutions provider Skyflow raises $30M to enhance data privacy vaults

Cloud data privacy solutions provider Skyflow Inc. today announced that it has raised $30 million in new funding to expand its privacy vault solutions and to meet complex data localization requirements amid growing concerns for sensitive-data protection in AI applications. Founded in 2019, Skyflow offers a data privacy vault that integrates with any tech stack ...

Sprocket Security raises $8M to enhance cybersecurity penetration testing platform

Expert-driven offensive security platform startup Sprocket Security Inc. today announced that it has raised $8 million in new funding to accelerate platform developments and expand sales and marketing initiatives. Founded in 2017, Sprocket Security offers continuous penetration testing services that detect changes in an organization’s network, with human-driven testing to identify security risks. The company’s ...

AppViewX and Fortanix join forces to simplify machine identity management

Automated machine identity company AppViewX Inc. and Intel Corp.-backed multicloud security firm Fortanix Inc. today announced a new partnership to offer cloud-delivered secure digital identity management and code signing to both their customers. The collaboration between the two companies sees the AppViewX Digital Trust Platform and Fortanix Data Security Manager combining to offer a cloud-delivered solution. The integrated approach is said to simplify and ...

Stream.Security debuts new AI-powered threat investigation and remediation tools

Cloud solutions startup Stream.Security today released new threat investigation and artificial-powered remediation capabilities that it says significantly enhance response times and cloud infrastructure security. The new real-time attack path detection and generative AI-powered remediation tools have been designed to enable customers to quickly detect, analyze and patch cloud environment flaws on a single platform. The capabilities allow ...

Cloud cybersecurity firm Coro raises $100M to strengthen protection for smaller firms

Cloud cybersecurity startup Coro Cyber Security Ltd. today announced that it has raised $100 million in new funding to reinforce its market share and accelerate its mission to serve small to medium-sized enterprises and service providers. Founded in 2014, Coro offers a cybersecurity platform built specifically for companies with 500 to 4,000 employees. The company’s ...