Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More. For many zero-trust founders and their teams, their sales pipeline is now their financial lifeline. With venture funding cooling off in 2023, founders are re-evaluating and, in some cases, pushing back on the growth-at-all-costs mentality investors urged them to pursue just a few months ago.A Crunchbase query completed today shows that 342 cybersecurity-focused startups founded in January 2021 or later received $1.85 billion in funding. Startups founded in January 2022 or later number just 122, with total funding of $450 million.  CB Insights’ The State of Venture in 5 Charts report is worth a read for anyone interested in the startup community. It quantifies the challenges all startup founders face, even those in hot areas like cybersecurity and zero trust

Messaging systems in today’s workplace have become as ubiquitous as email. In some cases, they’ve downright replaced it. Messengers are everywhere, and we’re all using them. And even though they offer end-to-end encryption, the underlying questions remain - who’s doing the encryption, where is the data sitting, who ultimately owns it, and crucially, are these platforms meeting increasingly strict compliance and regulatory issues?. Financial regulators in the US and UK aren’t joking around regarding the use of private messaging applications. The Securities and Exchange Commission, better known as the SEC, has handed out a total of $1.8 billion in fines across 16 US banking institutions

Last year, Microsoft launched a new product – Safe Links in Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – for Teams it claimed would protect users against potentially dangerous phishing URLs.