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Symantec Taps UCSB Student

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Security software vendor Symantec said this week that it has selected three students for a fellowship program, including one UC Santa Barbara graduate student. Cova's area of research focuses on analyzing malicious Web code targeting web browsers.

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Talk of Broadcom Buyout of Symantec Puts Broader IT Focus Into View

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Broadcom is once, twice, three times a multi-billion-dollar dealmaker (well, basically) in the past year if it follows through on its reported talks to acquire Mountain View, CA-based cybersecurity giant Symantec. Though it is one of the largest cybersecurity software providers, Symantec is.

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Signal Sciences Bolsters Sales Team With Two VPs

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Venice, California-based Signal Sciences , a venture-backed firm developing Web application security software, announced this morning that it has named two sales veterans to its team. Gomann was most recently VP of Sales for North America at MobileIron, and also served at Vontu, Symantec, and Corio (acquired by IBM).

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CrowdStrike Hauls In $200M, Reports Valuation Over $3 Billion

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Sunnyvale, CA-based CrowdStrike, as an endpoint protection and response platform, uses next-generation antivirus software, scans for behavioral indicators of malicious activity, and deploys other threat detection measures to prevent cyberattacks and mitigate harms when they occur.

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Endpoint Security Company CrowdStrike Files Publicly for IPO

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Sunnyvale, CA-based CrowdStrike sells cloud-based security software and related services by subscription to businesses.

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New Year to Bring New Data Security Threats, Cyber Investor Warns

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Bob Ackerman is one of the venture capitalists whose funding has long fed the growth of the burgeoning cybersecurity industry. So, you might imagine that his outlook on data protection for 2019 would be more optimistic than in past years, because businesses now take advantage of a broad choice of security services to protect themselves.

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Europe’s New Data Privacy Rules Nourish U.S. Privacy Tech Sector

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Take a look at this blurb for a session about data privacy at the upcoming RSA conference on cybersecurity. It sounds a polite warning: “The importance of privacy is often alluded to in generalized, value-laden terms that, while sincere, don’t necessarily help privacy be taken seriously in the enterprise risk management process.”