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title: "News from the Forefront: the Latest from Forgepoint Capital - February 2023"
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This month is more human and ChatGPT-free: get to know Alyssa and Leo, two of our all-stars, and enjoy more breakthroughs and headlines from Forgepoint Family companies.

| View in browser If no man is an island, a team is only as good as its individual players. We're lucky to work with Alyssa Iyer and Leo Casusol, whose expertise, experience, and passions help us be the best at what we do best: invest in and build with transformative companies protecting the digital future - especially when times like this call for resilience. Enjoy these updates from the Forgepoint family and stay tuned for more in the run up to RSAC 2023. We're excited to reunite with stakeholders across the community, including hopefully you. Let's stay connected on LinkedIn and Twitter.   Team Updates. Meet Alyssa Iyer, Entrepreneur in Residence, whose experience leading anti-money laundering (AML) remediation projects at global financial institutions ignited a deep passion for Regtech innovation, risk mitigation, and combating financial crimes. Read More > Meet Leo Casusol, Managing Director, whose global roots as a multi-time CIO and Chief Architect for F100 companies give him rich perspective helping startups go to market and scale as an investor, advisor, and company builder. What's most gratifying for Leo? Being called one of the team. Read More > Advisory Council. Please join us in welcoming another distinguished leader to our now 85+ member strong Forgepoint Advisory Council:  Derek Weeks, Founder & Senior Executive Advisor, Unfair Mindshare. Derek brings 30 years of experience in executive roles at venture-backed startups and global technology corporations. He previously served as SVP and CMO at the Linux Foundation, where he helped launch and advise the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF). As VP Marketing at Sonatype, Derek created the acclaimed State of the Software Supply Chain Report and co-founded All Day DevOps, the world's largest devops conference. Latest Headlines. The hottest cybersecurity startups to watch in 2023, according to VCs (Fortune) Read More > Global Trailblazers: The Unturned Stones Of Untapped Cyber Innovation by Alberto Yépez (Forbes Technology Council) Read More > Cyber Insights 2023: Venture Capital (SecurityWeek) Read More > 10 Belt-Tightening Tips for CISOs to Weather the Downturn (BankInfo Security/ISMG) Read More > Portfolio Company Updates. 1Kosmos was named an Overall Leader in KuppingerCole's recent Leadership Compass Reusable Verified Identity report on platforms and vendors in 2023. Read More >   Bishop Fox announced its Cosmos platform retained its leadership position in the Maturity/Platform Play quadrant of the GigaOm Radar Report for Attack Surface Management (ASM). Learn More >   CyberCube identified at-risk companies in a new VMware ransomware campaign. Read More >   Cyberhaven CEO Howard Ting spoke with CRN about increasing the rate of channel-sourced deals. Read More >   Ermetic CEO Shai Morag wrote about challenges the cloud poses for CISOs (Dark Reading). Read More >   Interos SVP, Research & Analytics Andrea Little Limbago discussed how fragmented data sovereignty poses issues for data loss prevention and global trade (GRC Outlook). Read More >   Lumu illuminated how cybersecurity leaders' priorities are shifting by surveying over 200 executives in their CISO Priorities 2023 report. Learn More >   Noname Security highlighted key data privacy regulations that impact companies in a blog post. Read More >   NowSecure announced support for OWASP MASVS v2 to empower standards-based testing at the OWASP Global AppSec event in Dublin, Ireland. Read More >   Rafay CEO Haseeb Budhani discussed why and how organizations should implement platform teams to effectively scale Kubernetes environments (Forbes Technology Council). Learn More >   ReversingLabs was recognized as a notable vendor in Forrester's The Software Composition Analysis Landscape, Q1 2023 report. Learn More >   Secure Code Warrior CEO Peter Danhieux shared insights on managing security vulnerabilities while scaling a company (Solutions Review). Read More >   SolCyber appeared in the 2023 CRN Security 100 list of channel-friendly cybersecurity vendors. Read More >   Surefire Cyber was selected to participate in MissionLink.Next's 2023 Cohort. Learn More >   Uptycs Founder and CEO Ganesh Pai discussed how smart companies should "shift up" to reduce cybersecurity risks (SC Magazine). Read More >   Upcoming Events. 3/14 NowSecure will host its March TechTalk Where Mobile Meets Medical. Register Here >   3/15-17 SPHERE will host its annual 360 Summit at Universal Studios - Orlando. Register Here >   3/20-22 Ermetic will present Leveraging CIEM to Secure Cloud Identities and Entitlements at Scale at the Gartner IAM Summit. Register Here >    3/20-22 1Kosmos will attend the Gartner IAM conference in Grapevine, Texas. Sign up to meet and network with some of the company executives. Book a Meeting >   3/23 Bishop Fox will release Episode 2 of its What The Vuln series, profiling research on circumventing EDR controls. Episode 1 focused on a Zimbra vulnerability. Watch Now >   4/22 SolCyber is a platinum sponsor for BSides NYC. Register Here >   ON DEMAND Huntress Sales Engineer Andrew Meier and Wes Spencer of FifthWall Solutions  dove deep into cyber insurance from a service provider’s perspective. Watch Now >   ON DEMAND ReversingLabs fireside chat with Derek Fisher, author of the book The Application Security Program Handbook. Watch Now >   ON DEMAND Surefire Cyber COO Jerry Bessette spoke on the Human Behavioral Risks panel at NetDiligence's Cyber Risk Summit in Fort Lauderdale. Watch Now > Portfolio Company Jobs. Looking for your next career opportunity or know someone who is? Browse or share our portfolio company job board, with 300 open roles across 30 innovative startups.  View Job Board Copyright © 2023 Forgepoint Capital, 400 S El Camino Real, Suite 1050, San Mateo, CA 94402 Unsubscribe Manage preferences Subscribe to the Forgepoint newsletter  |
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