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There is no argument that the COVID-19 pandemic uprooted the world's economy, but has it equally disrupted venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) investment in the cybersecurity industry? To answer this question, Aite-Novarica Group analyzed 1,346 startup and scale-up investments from 2019 to April 2023. The results were somewhat unexpected: The gloomy investment picture reported by the...

Much has been reported on the declining venture capital (VC) deals across the cybersecurity market, but is that true? The answer depends on how you look at the question. If one were to focus on the number of deals, the answer would be no. If one were to look at the size of the individual deals, the answer would be yes. The number of investment deals per month is slightly less than the ensuing...

It is reported that the average number of APIs organizations use can range from 15,564 to 25,592. According to F5, there could be 1.7 billion APIs in use by 2030, making APIs one of the largest known software components of an enterprise attack surface. Hackers increasingly target APIs as the gateway to an organization's sensitive information. A 2022 Salt Security report states that 94% of...

There are many key indicators pointing to an economic recession, whether it’s the World Bank cutting its outlook on 2023 global growth to 1.7% or the onslaught of layoffs. Regardless of the indicators, it sure feels like we’re in one. All this talk of recession made me wonder if the underground ransomware economy has been equally affected. Surely hackers must feel the pain of recession, right...