Having only joined Warburg Pincus as an Entrepreneur in Residence in November 2011, former McAfee CTO George Kurtz has cofounded stealth-mode cyber-security firm CrowdStrike – and with him comes $26m of series A investment from Warburg. Working with cofounders Dmitri Alperovitch (CTO) and Gregg Marston (CFO), the company aims to provide software (leveraging what it alludes to as ‘big data technologies’) to fight and respond to nation-state targeted intrusions. We look forward to hearing more as the company grows and emerges from its stealthy veil.
With the RSA Security Conference and Security BSides San Francisco only a week away I thought I’d offer some advice to first time attendees:
Hopefully this helps. See you next week.
Founded in 2006, Valhalla, New York-based Rev2 is a provider of risk management products built off of its RiskView Risk Concentration Analysis framework and visualization engine. The RiskView engine and framework identifies, compares and prioritizes vulnerabilities throughout an organization and also offers tailored RiskView solutions for service providers, manufacturers, financial services, government organizations and other enterprises. The RiskView software incorporates a data warehouse and visualization engine that helps users discover and prioritize risks hidden anywhere within the business. It combines the elements of various risk management disciplines into what the company claims is ‘one all-encompassing, scalable, repeatable framework.’