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WeBee's No-Code End-to-End Solution Builder running on Microsoft Azure, operating on the LoRaWAN protocol and leveraging Semtech LoRa devices simplifies the development of enterprise IoT use cases including industrial remote monitoring, smart farming, and smart cities. The Webee platform provides unique tools to accelerate and facilitate IoT including no-code Cloud services, visual drag and drop integration, and a natural language ask feature.

Entrust announced a master distributor agreement with SYNNEX to offer its comprehensive range of Entrust nShield hardware security modules and cybersecurity solutions to customers across the United States and Canada. This North America distribution agreement with SYNNEX provides its resellers with Entrust nShield HSMs to protect customer data and secure emerging technologies such as cloud, IoT, blockchain, and digital payments.

BlockApps began working with AWS on TraceHarvest in late 2020 and is already expanding services and capabilities utilizing AWS's cloud and technology services. Specifically, AWS will support TraceHarvest customers in their adoption of cloud services, bring technical and industry expertise to the TraceHarvest community, and co-invest in building tools to automate the customer on-boarding process to TraceHarvest, allowing customers to accelerate realization of seed and crop insights.

Cylera announced the company secured $10 million in Series A funding, led by Concord Health Partners and Maverick Ventures. With the Series A close, Cylera brings the company's total funding to $17 million with investment from Concord Health Partners, Maverick Ventures, Contour Venture Partners, Two Sigma Ventures, Dreamit Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Red Bear Angels and Samsung NEXT. "Over the past year there has been a further acceleration of the digitalization and adoption of IoT devices across hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, biotech, life sciences and manufacturing, which can decrease operational risk and increase efficiencies," said Timur Ozekcin, Co-founder and CEO of Cylera.

FiVerity announces that it closed a $2 million round of financing to expand its cyber fraud detection and threat intelligence platform, which addresses growing types of cyber fraud for financial institutions. Addressing the escalating rise in cyber fraud, FiVerity has initially focused on fighting synthetic identity fraud - the fastest growing financial fraud at 25% per year that accounts for 20% of consumer credit losses, according to the Federal Reserve, and cost the industry over $20bn last year.

Backblaze announced the appointment of Mark Potter as Chief Information Security Officer as the company continues to bolster its leadership team to drive growth. Backblaze provides businesses and consumers with cloud services to store and use their data in an easy and affordable manner, serving as a foundation for developers, IT professionals, and individuals to back up & archive data, host content, manage media, build their applications, and more.

Virsec announced that Jim Routh has joined the company as Chief Security Advisor and Board Participant. Routh recognizes the breakthrough technology that Virsec has pioneered and will leverage his expertise in transformational security to support innovation while driving positive business results.

Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Teams users report files are missing or moved to the Recycle Bin after the recent Azure Active Directory outage this week. Since Tuesday, BleepingComputer has spoken to numerous Microsoft SharePoint administrators bombarded with client calls about missing files in their SharePoint folders.

Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Teams users report files are missing or moved to the Recycle Bin after the recent Azure Active Directory outage this week. Since Tuesday, BleepingComputer has spoken to numerous Microsoft SharePoint administrators bombarded with client calls about missing files in their SharePoint folders.

Fiserv, a multi-billion-dollar cybersecurity tech provider for financial institutions, forgot to buy the domain used as a default in their systems' email communications, according to a report. The blunder could have exposed its clients' user information to anyone with a few bucks to buy the domain - However, before that could happen, researcher Abraham Vegh came across the error last November.