Security News
Snyk has announced the significant enhancements to its prioritization capabilities, helping security and development teams automatically identify and fix the most critical vulnerabilities. By giving developers the immediate priority scoring, deep application context, customizable security policies, and Snyk's automated fix PRs, security teams can ensure their developers are fixing the most important open source and container vulnerabilities, as quickly as possible.
Allscripts and Microsoft announced the extension of their long-standing strategic alliance to enable the expanded development and delivery of cloud-based health IT solutions. The five-year extension will support Allscripts' cloud-based Sunrise electronic health record, making Microsoft the cloud provider for the solution and opening up co-innovation opportunities to help transform healthcare with smarter, more scalable technology.
MariaDB announced a $25 million funding round supporting the company goals to expand the reach and development of its cloud database, MariaDB SkySQL. Led by SmartFin Capital, with participation from existing investors and new investor GP Bullhound, the round brings the total investment in MariaDB to over $125 million. "We feel MariaDB is well-positioned to take a large share of the growing cloud database market as companies continue to push forward into the cloud. We are proud to invest more in MariaDB to continue their exceptional growth."
SentinelOne, the autonomous cybersecurity platform company, announced the appointment of Chuck Fontana as Senior Vice President of Corporate and Business Development. Mr. Fontana will lead SentinelOne's business and corporate development functions, supporting the company on its journey as the world's next great cybersecurity platform.
This infusion of capital will enable Salt Security to continue investing in product development and innovation, address new use cases, and expand sales and marketing to meet increasing demand. Salt Security is the first to market with a new breed of patented API Security solutions, able to uncover the vulnerabilities unique to each API and identify and respond to attackers before an attack is successful.
Novetta announced the acquisition of WaveStrike, based in Annapolis Junction, MD. Novetta's acquisition of WaveStrike deepens its capability development expertise for shared customers and creates new growth opportunities for employees. Founded in 2010, WaveStrike is a premium provider of software engineering services, data analytics, and technology solutions to national security customers.
IQM Finland Oy was awarded a €2.5M grant and up to €15M of equity investment from the EIC Accelerator program for the development of quantum computers, benefiting the industry and the society at large. Together with Business Finland grants of €3.3M that IQM received so far, the company is on a fast run with more than €20M more raised in less than a year from its €11.4M seed round, summing in total to €32M. IQM has experienced amazing growth, set up a fully functional research lab in record time, and also hired the largest industrial quantum hardware team in Europe.
Pareteum, a global cloud communications platform company, announced that the Company closed the issuance of $17.5 million in Senior Secured Convertible Notes, with warrants, to an institutional investor. The net proceeds to the Company will be $14 million.
BigID introduced the first Application Development Framework for any data discovery platform on the market. The BigID App Development Framework empowers customers and partners to get more value from their data by building custom application functionality on top of BigID's market-leading data discovery platform.
International standards initiative oneM2M announced it has welcomed a range of new members as organizations around the world seek to accelerate the development of the Internet of Things market through greater interoperability. "2020 is shaping up to be a year when increased levels of collaboration between global organizations, institutions and companies really accelerate mass adoption of the IoT across a range of sectors," said oneM2M Steering Committee Chair, Enrico Scarrone.