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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. Tags: fellowship security ucsb software symantec virus education.

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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). READ MORE>>.

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TeleSign Names New CEO

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Miles was previously at Symantec, most recently serving as Senior Vice President for Symantec's Norton business, Latin America, Global Strategic Accounts, and IoT, Cloud & SaaS Partnerships. Miles also served at GM and ForgeRock.

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Interview with Frank Sinton, Mefeedia

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We recently ran into Frank Sinton, founder of Burbank-based Mefeedia (www.mefeedia.com), a popular online video search web site. Frank Sinton: Mefeedia is a new way to search and discover new video from all across the web, no matter where it's hosted. Tell me a little bit about what Mefeedia is about? What's your background?

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

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Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world. A real simple example, is someone comes to register for a particular web service, puts their name, and contact information into a site, and our clients asks them for a valid phone number. We primarily use the telephone security method.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Configurable from desktop-based web-based UI. Competition: McAfee , Symantec. If I were a number 3-5 players I’d be looking to exit early while there’s still a lot of enthusiasm for this hot market. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are. Time will tell.

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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.