security
Amazon’s palm-scanning payment tech will now be able to verify ages, too
Amazon One, the retailer’s palm-scanning payment technology, is now gaining new functionality with the addition of age verification services. The company announced today that customers using Ama
1Password’s new service lets businesses quickly adopt passkeys
Password manager 1Password today launched a new service, Passage by 1Password, that’s designed to allow businesses to build passkey authentication into their apps and websites without having to
Kubernetes and sigstore founders raise $17.5M to launch software supply chain startup Stacklok
After being instrumental in launching the Kubernetes open source project, Kubernetes co-founders Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda left Google to launch Heptio in 2016. They then sold the company to VMware
LayerZero and Immunefi launch largest crypto bug bounty program with up to $15M in rewards
LayerZero Labs, the team behind cross-chain messaging protocol LayerZero, has partnered with bug bounty and security services platform Immunefi to launch a $15 million bug bounty for its protocol, Bry
Motherhood, mentorship and management with Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan from Samooha
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Becca and Dom are joined by Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan, the co-founder and CEO at Samooha, a startup creating the in
Hacked verified Facebook pages impersonating Meta are buying ads from Meta
Sketchy Facebook pages impersonating businesses are nothing new, but a flurry of recent scams is particularly brazen. A handful of verified Facebook pages were hacked recently and spotted slinging lik
A developer exploited an API flaw to provide free access to GPT-4
A developer is attempting to reverse-engineer APIs to grant anyone free access to popular AI models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 — legal ramifications be damned. The developer’s project, GPT4
Firewalla launches a web-based security portal to help its users manage multiple firewalls
Firewalla made a name for itself by offering powerful yet affordable hardware firewalls that were, at first, mostly geared toward consumers. Small and medium businesses also quickly caught on to the a
Google brings generative AI to cybersecurity
There’s a new trend emerging in the generative AI space — generative AI for cybersecurity — and Google is among those looking to get in on the ground floor. At the RSA Conference 202
GitLab’s new security feature uses AI to explain vulnerabilities to developers
Developer platform GitLab today announced a new AI-driven security feature that uses a large language model to explain potential vulnerabilities to developers, with plans to expand this to automatical
Apigee rolls out new AI-powered API protection features
Timed to coincide with the annual RSA cybersecurity conference, Google Cloud announced updates to Apigee, its API management and predictive analytics service, designed to help prevent business logic a
Avalor wants to unify cybersecurity tools by aggregating data
Security has a data problem. That’s according to Kfir Tishbi, who led the engineering team at Datorama, a marketing analytics company that was acquired by Salesforce in 2018. Tishbi — who
Slim.AI helps developers optimize and secure their containers
Slim.AI, a startup specializing in software supply chain security that helps businesses optimize and secure their software containers, today announced the launch of its automated container hardening f
Otterize raises $11.5M to help developers securely connect software services
Tomer Greenwald, Uri Sarid and Ori Shoshan, software developers by trade, found themselves building and configuring software authentication and authorization mechanisms repeatedly — each time wi
Cranium launches out of KPMG’s venture studio to tackle AI security
Several years ago, Jonathan Dambrot, a partner at KPMG, was helping customers deploy and develop AI systems when he started to notice certain gaps in compliance and security. According to him, no one
Strivacity, which helps companies build secure login flows, nabs $20M
Identity and access security issues are increasingly top of mind for companies. According to a recent Verizon survey, 61% of all breaches now involve credentials — whether they be stolen via soc
DataDome, which uses AI to protect against bot-based attacks, raises $42M
Online businesses are at risk of bad bot activity, certainly more now than they used to be. According to a survey from Imperva, 42.3% of internet traffic in 2021 wasn’t human, but instead bots t
Spera raises $10M for its identity security posture management platform
With Spera, businesses get a single end-to-end tool that allows them to manage all aspects of identity security
Microsoft lets generative AI loose on cybersecurity
As a part of its continued quest to inject generative AI into all its products, Microsoft today introduced Security Copilot, a new tool that aims to “summarize” and “make sense”
Disrupt 2023 — we’re shipping a big new release
If the past few years, and even the past week, has reminded us soundly of anything — it’s that the startup world will never be predictable. To meet the changing startup landscape, we’re ref