This month we welcomed Lumu to the Forgepoint family, invited Neil Costigan, former CEO of BehavioSec (a Forgepoint company acquired by LexisNexis/RELX) to our Advisory Council and met with friends around the world – while gearing up for Cybersecurity Awareness Month and more exciting news ahead. Speaking of which, follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter for updates!

Justin Antonipillai of WireWheel, Connie Qian of Forgepoint, Cyndi and Ron Gula of Gula Tech Adventures, Alan Snyder of NowSecure, and Karl Sharman of Forgepoint and Stott & May reunited in Washington, DC to see Connie and Ron speak at the Wells Fargo Cyber Forum, a gathering of innovators and investors.

Financings and M&A.

Lumu, creators of the Continuous Compromise Assessment cybersecurity model that empowers organizations to measure compromise in real time, welcomed Forgepoint as an investor. CEO & Founder Ricardo Villadiego is a seasoned entrepreneur who led Easy Solutions through its acquisition by Cyxtera for over $2.8 Bn. Leo Casusol will join the Board of Directors and Rey Kirton will serve as Board Observer.  

Advisory Council.

Congratulations Gary McAlum on joining AIG as Global CISO. An IANS Faculty member, seasoned practioner and industry executive, Gary served as an Advisor/Sr. Analyst at TAG Cyber, CSO & SVP, Enterprise Security at USAA and led Security & Privacy at Deloitte. He spent 25 years in the Air Force, achieving the rank of Colonel and was inducted in its Cyberspace Operations Hall of Fame.

Please also join us in welcoming another distinguished leader to our Advisory Council: 

Neil Costigan, Chief Architect, Behavioral Biometrics at LexisNexis Risk Solutions (LNRS). He brings 30+ years of experience in senior roles at venture-backed startups and global technology corporations across the EU and US. He previously served as CEO of BehavioSec (acq. LNRS), Co-founder & CTO of CeloComms and VP of R&D at Gemplus. He holds a PhD in cryptography and was a Principal Investigator on DARPA's Active Authentication Program.  

Save the Date: Tue, 29 November for our annual Advisory Council Meeting & Dinner in NYC. Current council members and portfolio CEOs should have received invitations. We have limited room for additional guests. Contact Stacey Holmes with any questions and requests.

Latest Headlines.

This month, Forgepoint was honored to be profiled by the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). In this Member Spotlight, learn about our firm's vision, mission and commitment to community, as shared by Alberto Yépez. Read More > 

Alberto Yépez and Forgepoint were also profiled in this VC Spotlight: Forgepoint Capital Rides a Cybersecurity Wave for the Times of Entrepreneurship. Read More >

Will Lin provided guidance on How to Attract Venture Capital to Your Startup for InformationWeek. Read More >

Alberto Yépez, Andrew McClure and Shane Shook discussed Tomorrow's Top Trends in Cybersecurity, including cyber insurance and anomaly detection, with Emerging Brew. Read More >

Alberto Yépez commented on the cloud security market in Seven Cloud Security Startups Ripe for Acquisition by The Information. Read More >

Ernie Bio provided insight in Most Organizations Looking to Consolidate Security Vendors in 2022 by SC Media. Read More >

Will Lin joined SecurityWeek Editor-at-Large Ryan Naraine for a fireside chat on What's Going on With Cybersecurity VC Investments? at the SecurityWeek CISO Forum 2022. Watch Now >

Portfolio Company Updates.

1Kosmos was named 2022 SINET16 Innovator for Unifying Identity Proofing and Passwordless Authentication. 1Kosmos was also recognized as overall leader, product leader, and innovation leader in KuppingerCole's Providers of Verified Identity 2022 report. 

Bishop Fox launched a first-of-its-kind Ethical Hacker Capabilities Report with SANS. Bishop Fox also delivered the latest open-source security testing tool to the community with CloudFox.

Cyberhaven published its first Insider Risk Report, after analyzing the behavior of 1.4 million employees. The results are stultifying. As covered in VentureBeat, data protection's biggest secret is that 1 in 10 employees will leak IP data. 

SPHERE CEO Rita Gurevich was featured in SC Media's Women to Watch List. She was also honored on the 2022 Channel Futures DE&I 101 List, which recognizes individuals from a wide spectrum of multicultural backgrounds who are driving diversity equity and inclusion (DE&I) in technology channels through their words, actions and leadership.

CyberCube outlined how Russia's sovereign internet creates security risks with implications for cyber (reinsurance) while war in Ukraine develops. Read More >

CyberCube and EXL, a leading data analytics and digital operations and solutions company, announced collaboration to help insurers develop comprehensive cyber insurance offerings. Read More >

Lumu published its 2022 Compromise Flashcard, which analyzed compromises over the last year to expose their impact on organizations depending on size and industry. Read More >

NowSecure launched its latest platform update which delivers groundbreaking productivity, performance, coverage and cost savings for Mobile Application Security. Learn More >

Remediant President & CEO Raj Dodhiawala provided observations in Microsoft issues recommendations, as 'MagicWeb' malware hits Active Directory by IT Brew. Read More >

ReversingLabs discovers malicious npm package disguised as software tool Material Tailwind. Read More >  

ReversingLabs provided insight as White House memo calls for software supply chain security, takes a step closer to mandating SBOMs. Read More >  

SolCyber CEO Scott McCrady and Surefire Cyber CEO & Founder Billy Gouveia held a Cyber Incident Response & Prevention Q&A. Watch Now >

SolCyber and Converge partner to redefine cyber insurance for the mid-market as covered in CIOReview. Read Now >

Strata Identity announced the Hexa and identity Query Language (IDQL) open source project for Multi-cloud policy orchestration has been accepted as a Cloud Native Computing Founcation (CNCF) Sandbox Project. Read More >

10/13 & 10/17 SolCyber CMO Hwei Oh will speak at The Front Lines 2022. Learn More >

10/26 Bishop Fox and SANS will cohost a virtual event sharing insights from the experts in Hacker Insights Revealed: Explore New SANS Survey Results. Tune In >

10/26 NowSecure's virtual conference is back! Join Mobile AppSec and DevSecOps experts, innovators and customers for community talks and training at #NSConnect22. Learn More >

10/27 Cyberhaven will host a special executive event with its leadership team - Insider Risk in 2022: a CISO Dinner by the Chicago River. Learn More >

On Demand ReversingLabs shares all you need to know about The Ghost in Your SOC: How Software Supply Chain Attacks Threaten Financial Institutions. Tune In >

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