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Salesforce-backed cybersecurity startup Oleria is raising more cash

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Former Mandiant COO John Watters and information security leader Taher Elgamal are listed on the filing. Kunda also held engineering leadership roles at Salesforce, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft. The filing indicates a fresh $30 million capital infusion. We’ve reached out to Oleria for details.

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Google Cloud’s $5.4B Mandiant deal accelerates cybersecurity race with Microsoft and Amazon

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Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian calls the Mandiant acquisition “an opportunity to deliver an end-to-end security operations suite.” Microsoft had reportedly been in the running to acquire Mandiant , before bowing out. ” (Google File Photo). Google’s agreement to buy cybersecurity company Mandiant for $5.4

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Salesforce vets land $8M for employee access management startup

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Alkove started the company after retiring last year from Salesforce, where he was chief trust officer, responsible for enterprise-wide information security and compliance. Kunda also held engineering leadership roles at Salesforce, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft. McKinsey and Co.

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Macquarie Government: Providing Australia’s Federal Agencies with the Cloud and Security Solutions They Need to Safeguard the Most Sensitive Data

CIO Business Intelligence

Today, 42% of the nation’s federal agencies rely on Macquarie Government’s cloud solutions and services to address the most stringent security and sovereignty requirements. Data sovereignty is crucially important for regulatory and data security purposes.” Our customers use and trust VMware,” he says.

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Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’

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Charlie Bell, a former Amazon Web Services executive, is now the leader of Microsoft’s newly formed, 10,000-person security engineering organization. Microsoft Photo). “Eventually” Gates wrote, “our software should be so fundamentally secure that customers never even worry about it.”

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Tech Moves: Startup Haven grows team to lead new fund; PSL promotions; F5 Networks adds execs

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Techstars and Microsoft vet Dave Malcolm is executive director of the accelerator. Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky will be the new CEO of Amazon Web Services, replacing Andy Jassy, who will take over as Amazon’s CEO later this year. Purdue University Professor Jennifer Neville will be joining Microsoft Research in June.

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Jen Easterly Takes Charge of CISA At Black Hack USA 2021

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The new Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Jen Easterly, opened Day 2 of Black Hat USA 2021 with a remote presentation on Hacking the Cybersecurity Puzzle. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is relatively new. Easterly was appointed by Congress a few weeks ago.