Black Hat USA 2024 is in the books! Our team had a blast meeting with the founders, cybersecurity leaders, investors, advisors and supporters who make up the Forgepoint community. Thank you to all who joined our capstone events with Vision and Voice, Foundation Capital, IQT, and SVB, and congratulations to our companies on another great show! Meanwhile, Kathryn interviewed Bishop Fox's Rob Ragan about pen testing LLMs and AI applications, Alberto shared thoughts on SaaS and AI sprawl for Nasdaq, Shane penned a TIPS blog on the concept of secure in operation and Tanya recapped highlights from Huntress's Summer Summit in NYC. Read on for the latest news including recent achievements across the Forgepoint family of companies. Kudos on all the awards, breakthroughs, insights and continued impact!

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Team Updates

Kathryn Shih spoke with Rob Ragan, Bishop Fox Principal Technology Strategist, about AI and LLM Pen Testing in a wide-ranging interview covering Rob's work with companies integrating AI and genAI applications.

Tanya Loh joined Ernie Bio and Huntress's 100% remote team of SMB defenders at the company's Summer Summit, an annual multi-day retreat this time in New York City. She shared highlights in this blog post.

Headlines and Media

Building Greatness in Cybersecurity (CyberBytes) 

Cybersecurity Insights from 60 CEOs and Company Founders (ISMG) 

The Cybersecurity Market: Balancing Risk and Reward (ISMG) 

How to Conquer the Chaos of SaaS Sprawl and Shadow AI (Nasdaq) 

The Latest Insights

Gen AI in Innovation: Building Genius Teams. Synadia VP of Marketing Justyna Bak provides an expert analysis on the impact of generative AI and its potential to boost team performance.

TIPS #18: No Plan Survives First Contact with the Enemy: How Secure in Operation Builds on Secure by Design 

Shane Shook discusses the critical concept of secure in operation: even a perfectly designed tool or service is only as secure as how it is used. 1Kosmos, Constella Intelligence, NowSecure, RAD Security, SPHERE, Symmetry Systems, Synadia, and Uptycs.

Portfolio Company Updates

CyberCube was recognized as one of CNBC's top 150 insurtech companies in 2024. Congratulations!

Huntress earned 44 new G2 leader badges across multiple categories for Summer 2024. Well done team Huntress!

Lumu was recognized as a Leader and Outperformer in the 2024 GigaOm Radar for Network Detection and Response (NDR) report for the second consecutive year. Congratulations team Lumu!

Surefire Cyber was highly commended by the Intelligent Insurer judging panel for Cyber Insurance Incident Response. Congrats to the team!

BREAKTHROUGHS

Constella Intelligence launched ScamGPT to combat generative AI-powered phishing scams.

Nudge Security introduced new SaaS spend data and a new SaaS spend dashboard to help companies make data-driven SaaS investment decisions.

Synadia announced the private beta of the third foundational pillar of NATS.io- workloads- with Synadia Cloud Applications.

PARTNERSHIPS

Lynx announced a partnership with NTT DATA to scale Lynx's innovative fraud prevention across the UK and Europe.

INSIGHTS

Constella Intelligence released their 2024 Identity Breach Report, focusing on the GenAI attack revolution and the increased risk of identity exploitation.

1Kosmos CTO and Founder Rohan Pinto wrote about the rise of AI threats in the identity management space in an article for Forbes Tech Council. 

Bishop Fox CISO Christie Terrill and former VP of Consulting Tom Eston discussed how to leverage offensive security for effective post-attack recovery.

Converge Insurance Director of Cyber Risk Services Andrew Shaughnessy spoke with SecurityScorecard about insuring cyber risk. 

Huntress shared a behind the scenes look at a foiled medical software update hack. 

NowSecure reviewed the top security and privacy features from Apple's iOS 18 preview.

Rafay released a report featuring a survey of over 1,000 platform engineering and architecture experts regarding the top challenges with Kubernetes, cloud management, and AI.

ReversingLabs shared the key takeaways from the OSC&R report's analysis of software supply chain security.

SolCyber shared a retrospective on the recent CrowdStrike outage.

SPHERE Field CISO Fredy Pardo provided insights on the importance of Active Directory hygiene.

Uptycs released their Q2 2024 Cyber Threat Bulletin.

Upcoming and Recent Events

8/27, 8am PT NowSecure is hosting the latest TechTalk episode, Securing Your Mobile App Ecosystem - Most Common Mobile App Risks. 

9/5 SPHERE is attending CyberArk IMPACT 2024 in Chicago. 

9/11-9/12 1Kosmos will be at Identity Week in Washington, D.C. Visit the team at booth #706 or book a meeting.  

MULTIPLE DATES Huntress is going on the road with Huntress Roadshow and visiting cities and venues across the US and the UK.

ON DEMAND Bishop Fox hosted conversations with hackers and infosec experts during their DEF CON 32 livestream. 

ON DEMAND CyberCube hosted a webinar examining the development of the cyber (re)insurance market in the Asia-Pacific region.

ON DEMAND Lumu showcased how the company detects and mitigates cyber threats in real-time to fulfill the security needs of MSP clients.

ON DEMAND Surefire Cyber CEO and founder Billy Gouveia was a guest on the Chattinn Cyber podcast where he discussed IR, automation and AI in cybersecurity, and more. 

PORTFOLIO JOBS

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