Cybersecurity/Information Security

Cybersecurity giant McAfee is to become a private company again after it agreed to be acquired by a group of private equity firms in a $14bn agreement.

Breach and attack simulation (BAS) platform SafeBreach has raised $53.5m from a Series D round led by Sonae IM and Israel Growth Partners.

Founded in 2014, FinTecSystems is specialised in open banking infrastructure and data analysis to help companies make data-driven and automate decisions. At a time when companies are scrambling to protect their assets from criminal actors, could FTS’ open banking infrastructure be a flood barrier against the rising wave of financial crime?

CAPSLOCK, a bootcamp for cybersecurity training, has collected £1m in pre-seed funding.

Contrast Security, a developer of next-gen code security tools, has closed its Series E funding round on $150m, bringing its valuation to over $1bn.

Security and compliance automation company Drata has secured $100m in Series B funding and reached $1bn valuation.

SCYTHE, which designs adversarial emulation to help companies combat cyberattacks, has collected $10m in its Series A.

Retail investing app Robinhood has been the victim of a data security incident which has exposed information of around seven million people.

Compliance-as-a-service platform Laika has raised $35m from a Series B funding round to expand its automation footprint.

The US government has put a $10m bounty on the cybercriminals who hacked the system of the Colonial Pipeline back in May of this year.