Security News
Fidelis Cybersecurity announced the appointment of cybersecurity industry veteran, Anup Ghosh as CEO. Ghosh leaves his post as Managing Director at Accenture Security to drive Fidelis Cybersecurity through its next growth stage following the company's acquisition by Skyview Capital late last year. "Skyview looks forward to partnering with Anup to take Fidelis to a position of leadership in the cybersecurity industry."
The founder and CEO of the Internet security company NS8 has been arrested and "Charged in a Complaint in Manhattan federal court with securities fraud, fraud in the offer and sale of securities, and wire fraud." I admit that I've never even heard of the company before.
It seems ironic that the co-founder of a company designed to prevent online fraud would engage in fraudulent activity. "It seems ironic that the co-founder of a company designed to prevent online fraud would engage in fraudulent activity himself, but today that's exactly what we allege Adam Rogas did," Sweeney said in a statement.
The founder and CEO of NS8, a cyber fraud prevention and protection company, has been charged with fraud just months after the firm raised $123 million in funding, the U.S. Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission announced on Thursday. The DoJ said Adam Rogas, 43, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was arrested and charged with securities fraud, fraud in the offer and sale of securities, and wire fraud.
Devo Technology, a company that provides data analytics and security solutions, announced on Tuesday that it has raised another $60 million and that Marc van Zadelhoff has been appointed its chief executive officer. The $60 million that Devo raised in this Series D round brings the total secured by the company to $131 million.
Exclusive Networks announced the appointment of Jesper Trolle as CEO with immediate effect. Trolle joins Exclusive from ECS Arrow Electronics, where he is currently President of the Americas, and will be responsible for driving the next phase of growth at the company and upscaling the business.
Gartner defines CPSs as "Systems that are engineered to orchestrate sensing, computation, control, networking and analytics to interact with the physical world." The security implications for such systems have been heightened as IT systems, IoT and the operational technology that controls physical systems continue to converge. At the same time, many companies are unaware that they have OT systems connected to enterprise networks; or, they may not be following proper network segmentation or other precautions.
BeyondEdge announced its CEO has been named to the Board of Directors for Building Cyber Security, the leading non-profit organization focused on improving and advancing the physical information and operational technology systems security, safety, and privacy in both the public and private sector. "Leading BeyondEdge for the past ten years, a company with a history of innovation and industry firsts, we selected Amir for his reputation in staying ahead of market needs by focusing on software and automation to deliver highly-available and secure access to technology solutions in the public and private sectors," said Jason Lund, CEO of Building Cyber Security.
SlashNext announced that security and cloud services veteran Patrick Harr has joined the company as CEO. With a proven track record of leading security and cloud startups, as well as Fortune 100 divisions, Harr will drive the company's next phase of growth and accelerate its mission to protect the world's internet users from all forms of phishing across email, mobile, web, SMS, social networking, gaming and collaboration services. Phishing attacks have skyrocketed, with a 350% increase since January 2020 according to Google and 85% of phishing attacks are happening outside of email on mobile devices according to Verizon.
"We discovered and stopped a sophisticated attempted ransomware attack," Blackbaud CEO Michael Gianoni has told financial analysts - failing to mention the company simply paid off criminal extortionists to end the attack. As we reported, Blackbaud paid a demanded ransom back in May before quietly notifying the world two months later.