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Salesforce-backed cybersecurity startup Oleria is raising more cash

GeekWire

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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Amazon acquires encrypted messaging app Wickr

The Verge

“We’re excited to share that AWS has acquired Wickr, an innovative company that has developed the industry’s most secure, end-to-end encrypted, communication technology,” Stephen Schmidt, Amazon Web Services’ vice president, wrote.

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Salesforce vets land $8M for employee access management startup

GeekWire

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.

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

GeekWire

. “The cloud security space is highly competitive, and this deal really only even further enhances that competition,” said Phil Venables, Google’s chief information security officer, addressing a reporter’s question about potential regulatory hurdles to closing the deal during a virtual press conference Tuesday morning.

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Symantec Government Symposium 11 March 2014 at the Renaissance Hotel Washington DC

CTOvision

Gary Galloway , Deputy Director, Office of Information Assurance, Dept. Moderator: Mark Ryland , Chief Solutions Architect, World Wide Public Sector Team, Amazon Web Services. Chuck McGann , Corporate Information Security Officer, USPS. Session D-1: Managing the Threat Lifecycle. – 3:40 p.m.

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GoDaddy Incident Leaks Data of More Than 1 Million Wordpress Customers

SecureWorld News

GoDaddy's Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Demetrius Comes says once the breach was detected GoDaddy contacted authorities immediately and blocked the third-party user, determined to be a malicious hacker. In 2018, GoDaddy was connected to a data leak when an Amazon Web Services (AWS) spreadsheet was exposed.

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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

Another benefit of being based on VMware technology is that it is far easier for agencies to migrate, deploy or extend workloads into the cloud, or alternatively to move data back-and-forth with consistent information security controls already applied. Data sovereignty is crucially important for regulatory and data security purposes.”