ESW #270 - Dan Allen & Will Lin

This week, in the first segment, we learn all about the technical ins and outs of HP SureClick Enterprise with HP expert Dan Allen and discover how SureClick Enterprise can help improve security efforts in your organization! Then, we bring on a VC to provide an investor’s point-of-view! It’s hard to imagine a better investor to join us than Will Lin, co-founder of Forgepoint, one of the few VC firms that exclusively invests in cybersecurity startups! Finally, in the Enterprise Security News: Fortress InfoSec raises $125M to help critical infrastructure improve security, ThreatLocker raises $100M, thanks in part to Kaseya’s breach, Obsidian raises $90M to secure SaaS use, DoControl raises $30M to possibly compete with Obsidian, Blueshift raises a seed round to bring SOC and XDR to SMBs, Strike Security raises a seed round to take a different approach to pen testing, Thoma Bravo is still working on an Imprivata exit, The biggest startup failures of all time - how many security vendors are on the list, Is the SEC forcing CISOs into the boardroom, Better, but harder to collect, security metrics, & more!

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