Skip to main content
Category

CYBERSECURITY

By CYBERSECURITY

Fast Growing MDR Player

November 2017 CYBERSECURITY Fast Growing MDR Player Sonae IM Invests in Fast-growing, US-based Arctic Wolf Networks, a Cybersecurity Firm with a Disruptive Market Approach Porto, November 16, 2017 – Arctic Wolf has closed a $14.5 million financing round to continue expanding its security operations center (SOC)-as-a-Service solution in North America and European markets. US technology investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Redpoint are joined by Sonae IM and Knollwood Investment Advisory in this latest round. Sonae IM will take a seat on Arctic Wolf’s board of directors and play an active role supporting the company’s expansion plans. Arctic Wolf is a global pioneer in the SOC-as-a-Service market with cutting-edge managed detection and response (MDR), which provides a unique combination of technology and services for clients to quickly detect and contain threats. Now, small- to mid-size organizations, who traditionally lack security teams and 24x7 support, can benefit from corporate-grade cybersecurity protection. MDR...
Read More
By CYBERSECURITY

Cybersecurity: It is all about People

May 2017 CYBERSECURITY Cybersecurity: It is all about People Cyber security is in the spotlight, we all know that. The latest massive ransomware attack WannaCry that affected over 150,000 computers in more than 150 countries, the mega breaches of Yahoo, which affected 500 million accounts and the subsequent revealed breach just a few months after that affected 1 billion accounts, the crazy DDoS attacks bringing down sites including Twitter, the Guardian, Netflix, Reddit, CNN and many others in Europe as result of the cyber-attack to DNS provider Dyn. These are just some examples of attacks that became public, most of them never reach the news. According to a study of FireEye, an estimated 97% of businesses have been breached. Over the past five years, the number of publicly traded Cybersecurity point solution vendors has more than doubled. A report of July 2016 from CB Insights stats that $10.9 billion was...
Read More
By CYBERSECURITY

Probe.ly

March 2017 CYBERSECURITY Probe.ly I was very pleased to accept this invitation to write for Sonae IM blog about the Caixa Empreender Award 2017 won by Probe.ly. Here you can find out more about this award and its significance to Sonae IM in the words of Carlos Silva, but my mission is to use this text to further explain what we believe to be an innovative tool to find and manage security vulnerabilities in Web applications. Our solution is an open SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) platform available on the cloud, which is able to search for and detect vulnerabilities in any online service. It can be used by a bank to improve the security of its online banking service, but it can also be used on a corporate website of a small, medium or large businesses. I believe this is a democratic solution that allows for an unmatched flexibility on the market....
Read More
By CYBERSECURITY

Probe.ly wins Caixa Empreender Award

March 2017 CYBERSECURITY Probe.ly wins Caixa Empreender Award We are very happy to announce yet another award from the web security app, Probe.ly. The Caixa Empreender Awards 2017. After in the last Autumn edition of Lisbon Challenge, the startup program accelerator from Beta-i, earning a sum of 75K€, Probe.ly distinguished itself again during the Caixa Empreender Awards, and took all the honors home. Such distinction means not only a big step in the continuous growing of Probe.ly but as well as an increasing relevance in the national context, as one of the cybersecurity references in Portugal. Probe.ly is a web security startup incubated in Bright Pixel, our partner in early stages projects, and counts with an experienced team and an important background in the telecommunications area. Stay in touch as the surprises for the future are sure not to be over… Media news: JN, Observador, DinheiroVivo, eco.pt Get to know...
Read More