Month: April 2022

Fortress Information Security, which helps companies automate supply chain management, raises $125M from Goldman Sachs (Tim Keary/VentureBeat)

Tim Keary / VentureBeat: Fortress Information Security, which helps companies automate supply chain management, raises $125M from Goldman Sachs  —  Today, supply chain cybersecurity platform provider Fortress Information Security announced that it had raised $125 million as part of a strategic investment managed …

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3 strategies for enterprise cloud finops

Finops is a buzzword with many meanings, depending on whom you talk to. I’ve heard it defined as everything from “technology and tools” to “culture and communications,” and even “business processes.” It’s bigger than any of those—and sometimes part of all three.  The consensus for those dealing with cloud computing? Finops is related to cloud

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7 ways to avoid a cloud misconfiguration attack

Cloud engineering and security teams need to ask some important questions about the security of their cloud environments, and they must go well beyond whether or not environments are passing compliance audits. Within minutes of your adding a new endpoint to the internet, a potential attacker has scanned it and assessed its exploitability. A single

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DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg says reports of the service removing piracy websites are “made up” and blames an issue with its site:operator search function (Umar Shakir/The Verge)

Umar Shakir / The Verge: DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg says reports of the service removing piracy websites are “made up” and blames an issue with its site:operator search function  —  Blank site search results for The Pirate Bay gave users reason to believe otherwise

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A look at Xsolla, a video game payments company founded in 2005 by Aleksandr Agapitov with nearly $100M in 2021 revenue from Epic, Valve, Roblox, and more (Scott Carpenter/Bloomberg)

Scott Carpenter / Bloomberg: A look at Xsolla, a video game payments company founded in 2005 by Aleksandr Agapitov with nearly $100M in 2021 revenue from Epic, Valve, Roblox, and more  —  Aleksandr Agapitov is little known inside video gaming circles, let alone the business world.  —  Yet his company is one of the leading

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3 Reddit Stocks That Could Roar in Q2

The trick to sifting through Reddit stocks is to figure out what fits your investing style. Elon Musk will be able to focus on Tesla (TSLA) profits now that he’s not taking a spot on Twitter’s (TWTR) board. Apple (AAPL) could see $20 billion in sales this year from the iPhone SE 3. BitNile (NILE) says it’s debt-free and investing more

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BlockApps, which is building the enterprise-focused Strato blockchain, raises $41M led by Liberty City Ventures, bringing its total funding to $50M (Jacquelyn Melinek/TechCrunch)

Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: BlockApps, which is building the enterprise-focused Strato blockchain, raises $41M led by Liberty City Ventures, bringing its total funding to $50M  —  While the digital asset industry has brought in some skeptics over the past couple years, investors are hoping that crypto startups …

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