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V2 | Issue 50 | 12.23.20

BlueHalo acquires Base2 Engineering and Fortego. OneTrust secures $300 million in Series C funding. BigID raises $70 million in Series D round.

Summary

By the CyberWire staff

At a glance.

BlueHalo acquires Base2 Engineering and Fortego.
OneTrust secures $300 million in Series C funding.
BigID raises $70 million in Series D round.

Mergers and acquisitions.

BlueHalo, a Virginia-based company in Arlington Capital Partners' portfolio, on Monday announced that it had completed its acquisition of Base2 Engineering and Fortego. The two acquired companies are expected to solidity BlueHalo's cybersecurity and signals intelligence capabilities. Both Base2 and Fortego are headquartered in Maryland. Fortego was advised on the transaction by Eureka Strategic Consulting.

Cisco intends to acquire Palo Alto-headquartered application environment visibility company Dashbase. Cisco will integrate Dashbase's technology into the AppDynamics platform, enabling AppDynamics "to further streamline case investigation and the resolution process with support for Metrics, Events, Logs, and Traces."

SafeToNet Limited, a London-based company focused on keeping children safe online, has acquired Philadelphia-headquartered Content Watch Holdings, Inc, the owner of parental-control software provider Net Nanny. SafeToNet stated, "This acquisition significantly strengthens SafeToNet's US presence where it recently launched SafeToNet Americas, also based in Philadelphia, as part of the company's global expansion. In addition to the direct consumer market, the company plans to deploy a derivative of its safeguarding keyboard onto the technology used by schools across the country." Additionally, the company said "the move is part of SafeToNet's preparatory plans for a Series B investment round in early 2021 which will accelerate its already rapid international expansion."

Investments and exits.

Atlanta, Georgia-based data governance and compliance firm OneTrust has raised $300 million in a Series C round led by TCV, with participation from existing investors including Insight Partners and Coatue. The company is now valued at $5.1 billion. According to VentureBeat, OneTrust will put the funding "toward product R&D as it looks to expand its sales, marketing, and engineering teams worldwide."

New York-headquartered data discovery and privacy management company BigID has raised $70 million in a Series D round that brought the company's valuation to over $1 billion. The round was led by Salesforce Ventures and Tiger Global, with participation from Glynn Capital and existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Scale Venture Partners, and Boldstart Ventures. The company says the funding "will help accelerate BigID's investment in data intelligence for privacy, protection, and perspective, further expand sales and marketing, and deliver new applications for actioning data in data privacy, security, and governance."

San Francisco-based data security and compliance company Very Good Security (VGS) has raised $60 million in a Series C round led by Vertex Ventures US with participation from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Goldman Sachs Growth. The company says the funding "will help VGS thoughtfully accelerate our growth and continue to deliver on our promise to our customers as we build for the long-term."

UK-based quantum software company Cambridge Quantum Computing has secured $45 million in financing from Honeywell Ventures, IBM Ventures, JSR Corporation, Serendipity Capital, Alvarium Investments, and Talipot Holdings. The company says it will use the funding "to further accelerate commercialization and consolidate its leadership position in quantum computing software and applications."

Arizona-based data privacy rights management company Truyo has secured a strategic investment from Intel, which the company says "will further accelerate Truyo's Health-Check Management Solutions innovation." The amount of the investment wasn't disclosed.

Executive moves.

Seeking Alpha reports that Cisco's Executive VP and Chief of Operations Irving Tan has stepped down, and has returned to Singapore where "he'll serve the company to help with special projects in Asia Pacific, Japan, and China." Cisco said in an SEC filing, "[I]n connection with Mr. Tan stepping down from his role, Maria Martinez, Cisco’s Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Experience Officer, is taking on an expanded role to lead certain operations functions in addition to customer experience as one, united team, including supply chain, IT, security and trust, data and analytics, customer and partner services, and strategy and business acceleration.

OneLogin has hired Damon Dean as Chief Product Officer and promoted Matt Hurley to Chief Revenue Officer, Channel Partners reports. Dean previously served as Vice President of Product Management at Flexport. Hurley was previously OneLogin's Vice President of Global Channels, Strategic Alliances, and Professional Services.

Google has appointed Jeff Reed as Vice President of Product for its Anthos cloud business, CRN reports. Reed previously served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cloud and Network Security for Cisco's security business.

F5 Networks has named Haiyan Song as Executive Vice President of Security. Song previously served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Security Markets at Splunk.

Cerberus Sentinel has hired Bryce Hancock as its Chief Operating Officer. Hancock most recently served as CFO, Treasurer, and Secretary at BeyondTrust.

Centrify has appointed Charlie Velasquez as Chief Financial Officer. Velasquez has previously served as CFO for Skybox Security, Arxan Technologies, CollabNet/VersionOne, AccelOps, and Tidal Software.

Teradata has hired Todd Cione as Chief Revenue Officer, Help Net Security reports. Cione was previously Apple's Head of US Enterprise Accounts.

EVOTEK has appointed former FBI Supervisory Special Agent John Caruthers as Business Information Security Officer (BISO) and Executive Advisor.

Deep Instinct has hired Ryan Shopp as its first Chief Marketing Officer. Shopp most recently served as Vice President of Marketing at AppDynamics.

NeuVector has named Jon Shaw as EMEA Sales Director. Shaw previously served as EMEA Sales Director at ReversingLabs.

EfficientIP has appointed Thierry Drilhon as chairman of its board and Cécile Ferreboeuf Clayes as a board member. Drilhon currently serves as President of the Franco-British Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Cécile Ferreboeuf Clayes is currently Director of Business Development at Microsoft

Illumio has appointed Jennifer Johnson to its board of directors. Johnson currently serves as Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer at Amplitude.

Plurilock has added Chris Pierce as an advisor. Pierce most recently served as Executive Vice-President at Booz Allen Hamilton.

Peter MacKay, a lawyer and former senior cabinet minister in the Canadian federal government, has been appointed as an advisor to Deloitte Canada and McInnes Cooper, IT World Canada reports.

Notes.

A note to our Pro subscribers: This issue of the CyberWire's Pro Business Briefing closes out our 2020 volume. Thank you for reading, and we wish you the best over the Christmas and New Year's holidays. We'll be back with Pro Business on January 6th. Until then, our best holiday wishes. Thanks again, and best regards.

Selected Reading

Marketplace.

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Cisco Systems Layoffs 2020: Networking Company Confirms 3,500 Job Cuts (ChannelE2E) Cisco Systems layoffs for 2020 span 3,500 employee job cuts -- fewer than the 8,000 cuts alleged by a Washington Post report.

Data Protection Firm BigID Raises $70 Million at $1 Billion Valuation (SecurityWeek) Data protection firm BigID has raised $70 million in a Series D funding round, bringing the valuation of the company to more than $1 billion.

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Bitglass Receives Seven Honors for Cloud Security Excellence and Two Industry Recognitions in H2 2020 (BusinessWire) Bitglass, the Total Cloud Security Company, announced today that it has won multiple awards and been recognized by industry experts throughout 2020. T

Products, services, and solutions.

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StrikeForce Unveils SafeVchat Delivering Video Conferencing Platform (AiThority) StrikeForce Technologies, Inc., a U.S. based company, announced the controlled rollout of SafeVchat, the first video conferencing platform

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CloudPassage adds Google Cloud Platform support for Halo Cloud Secure (Help Net Security) CloudPassage announced the addition of Google Cloud Platform support for Halo Cloud Secure, the CSPM service of Halo cloud security platform.

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LucidLink Rapidly Rolls Out Single Sign-on with Identity Management Firm - Okta (GlobeNewswire) Enhances Filespaces with Pinning Feature

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BeyondTrust Adds Remote Support Integration for ServiceNow CSM (AiThority) BeyondTrust, the worldwide technology leader in Privileged Access Management (PAM), announced a new integration between its leading Remote Support solution and ServiceNow

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Safe-T and Accenture Spain Launch Secure Remote Access Managed Security Service (AiThority) Safe-T Group a provider of secure access solutions for on-premise and hybrid cloud environments, announced the launch of a joint secure remote access MSS

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Unisys enhances biometric authentication capabilities of Stealth platform (Biometric Update) Unisys has announced an update to the biometrics capabilities of its Stealth platform to include passive liveness detection and single sign-on technologies. Stealth is an adaptive, risk-based authe…

DigiCert Solves Challenge of PKI Management in the IoT Device Supply Chain and at the Edge with New IoT Device Manager Release (AiThority) DigiCert, helps companies and manage digital certificates at any point during the product lifecycle with release of the IoT Device Manager.

Tufin SecureCloud now supports the Google Cloud Platform (Help Net Security) Tufin SecureCloud now supports Google Cloud, allowing customers to use SecureCloud to define and monitor compliance with security guardrails.

Sophos unveils new open AI developments to sharpen defenses against cyberattacks (SecurityBrief New Zealand) While it is common practice to share AI methodologies and findings in other industries, cybersecurity has lagged in this effort.

Atlantica Digital and NanoLock Partnership Carves a Niche for IoT... (Enterprise Security) NanoLock Security and Atlantica Digital partners to provide innovative managed security service to protect smart meters and connected devices of...

Lumacron debuts Draco: a 200G traffic autodiscovery platform (Light Reading) New system auto-discovers WAN protocols and IDs packet streams mapped to that traffic.

Telenor Myanmar Taps Akamai for Subscriber Security (Yahoo Finance) Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM), the intelligent edge platform for securing and delivering digital experiences, announced that Telenor Myanmar is using Akamai's SPS Shield product to help protect subscribers from a host of cybersecurity threats. Available as Telenor Business Web Shield to Telenor Myanmar Business customers, the service automatically activates defenses against bots, malware, phishing and other types of attacks.

Verizon Business Adds Silver Peak to SD-WAN Roster (Channelnomics) Visit the post for more.

Google Chrome and ESET collaborate in fight against online threats (ESET) Company news from the maker of legendary NOD32 technology.

Cyberbit and Optiv Partner to Bring Cyber Range Training to SOC Teams in North America (BusinessWire) Cyberbit, the world’s leading provider of Cyber Skills Development Platforms, today announced a new partnership with Optiv, a security solutions integ

SafeBreach Hacker's Playbook Updated for US-CERT Active Exploitation of SolarWinds (SafeBreach) SafeBreach Labs has updated the SafeBreach Hacker's Playbook with new attack methods for malware samples described in US-CERT Active Exploitation of SolarWinds Software.

Cowbell Cyber Teams with Keystone to Deliver Agents Innovative Cyber Coverages (PR Newswire) Cowbell Cyber, the industry's first AI-powered cyber insurance provider for small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs), today announced it has teamed...

Datadobi and Wasabi Announce Technology Alliance Partnership (BusinessWire) Datadobi and Wasabi announced a Technology Alliance Partnership.

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Platform9 Launches the Industry's Only SaaS Managed Bare Metal Orchestration Platform (PR Newswire) Platform9, the first company to provide open-source SaaS managed solutions for private and edge clouds, today unveiled the industry's only...

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Dasera’s Latest Release Secures the Entire Data Lifecycle for Cloud Data Stores (BusinessWire) Cloud Data Lifecycle Security startup Dasera announced today that it has launched its Yellowstone release for cloud data warehouses and data lakes. Ta

Coalfire Authorized As CVE Numbering Authority (PR Newswire) Coalfire, a provider of cybersecurity advisory and assessment services, has been approved by the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)...

People.

Todd Cione joins Teradata as Chief Revenue Officer (Help Net Security) Teradata announced the appointment of Todd Cione as Chief Revenue Officer, bringing more than 25 years of experience.

Splashtop Announces the Members of its Security Advisory Council (Yahoo) Splashtop Inc., a worldwide leader in remote access and remote support solutions, has assembled leading experts in cybersecurity and compliance to form a Security Advisory Council for the company. This group of advisors helps guide Splashtop toward its rigorous security and compliance goals.

OneLogin Expands Its C-Suite with Key Executive Hires (News Break) OneLogin, a global leader in identity and access management (IAM), announced the appointment of two new members to its leadership team, strengthened at the end of a landmark year for OneLogin which saw it named a leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Access Management. Damon Dean, appointed as...

Google Cloud Nabs Former Cisco Security Leader Jeff Reed (CRN) Jeff Reed, Cisco's former SVP and GM of cloud and network security for Cisco Security is now vice president of product for Google Anthos.

John Kelly, ‘Father’ Of Watson Computer, Retires From IBM (CRN) IBM veteran John Kelly III, 'father' of the Watson computer, is retiring from the company.

MobileIron CEO, CFO, other execs won't join Ivanti upon acquisition (Silicon Valley Business Journal) A new layoff notice shows that 75 Mountain View-based MobileIron employees — including the company's CEO, CFO and other executives — won't be joining Ivanti upon its acquisition of MobileIron.

Deep Instinct appoints Ryan Shopp as chief marketing officer (Help Net Security) Deep Instinct announced that Ryan Shopp has been named to the newly created position of chief marketing officer.

Former FBI Supervisory Special Agent, John Caruthers Joins EVOTEK's Cybersecurity team (PR Newswire) EVOTEK (www.evotek.com), the nation's premier enabler of secure digital business, announced that it has hired former FBI Supervisory Special...

Cisco operations chief exits post to return to Singapore (NASDAQ:CSCO) (SeekingAlpha) Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) says in an SEC filing that its executive VP and Chief of Operations Irving Tan has exited, electing to return to Singapore.

F5 Welcomes Haiyan Song as Executive Vice President of Security (Yahoo) F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) today announced that Haiyan Song will be joining the company as Executive Vice President of Security, starting January 4, 2021. Song joins F5 from Splunk where she led the Security business as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Security Markets. Song will build on F5’s position as the second-largest global application security player, with over $750 million in security revenues, and drive the company’s next phase of growth in security.

Cybersecurity Company Deep Instinct Expands Executive Team with Appointment of Chief Marketing Officer (BusinessWire) Cybersecurity company, Deep Instinct, announces Ryan Shopp has been named to the newly created position of chief marketing officer.

The Top 25 Cybersecurity IT Executives of 2020 (PRWeb) NEW YORK (PRWEB) December 16, 2020 The IT Services Report is pleased to announce The Top 25 Cybersecurity IT Executives of 2020. As companies look to digitize their operations, particularly with

IBM Board Appoints CEO Arvind Krishna As Chairman, Replacing Rometty (CRN) IBM’s board of directors appointed CEO Arvind Krishna as its chairman, taking over from executive chairman and former chief executive Ginni Rometty.

Cerberus Sentinel Announces Bryce Hancock as New Chief Operating Officer (GlobeNewswire) U.S. cybersecurity services firm expands leadership team

Zscaler names new ANZ boss (CRN Australia) Steve Singer replaces Budd Ilic.

EfficientIP expands leadership team with two new senior appointments (Help Net Security) EfficientIP announced two senior appointments – Thierry Drilhon as chairman of the board and Cécile Ferreboeuf Clayes as a new board member.

Peter MacKay hired as advisor at Deloitte Canada and McInnes Cooper (IT World Canada) Canadian lawyer and former senior cabinet minister in the country’s federal government Peter MacKay has been hired as a strategic advisor to Deloitte Canada and Canadian law firm McInnes Cooper.

Plurilock Adds Information Technology and Cybersecurity Expert, Chris Pierce as Advisor (Yahoo Finance) Former US Navy Lieutenant held multiple leadership roles at Booz Allen Victoria, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - December 16, 2020) - Plurilock Security Inc. (TSXV: PLUR) ("Plurilock" or the "Company"), an innovative cybersecurity company that provides frictionless and continuous authentication using machine learning and behavioral biometrics, this week announced that Chris Pierce has agreed to serve as an advisor to the company. Chris will provide guidance on strategy, partnerships and enterprise commercialization opportunities.Mr. Pierce is ...

NeuVector Names Jon Shaw as EMEA Sales Director as Global Demand for End-to-End Container Security Grows (GlobeNewswire) The veteran enterprise security sales executive will bring the Full Lifecycle Container Security leader to more EMEA businesses and spearhead new channel initiatives in the region

Illumio Welcomes Jennifer Johnson to its Board of Directors (GlobeNewswire) Industry veteran brings over 20 years of Security and IT go-to-market experience to support Illumio’s aggressive growth and Zero Trust leadership

Centrify Appoints Charlie Velasquez as Chief Financial Officer | Centrify (Centrify) Centrify, a leading provider of Identity-Centric Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions, today announced that Charlie Velasquez has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer (CFO).