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| Aug 29, 2025 | Software commands 40% of cybersecurity budgets as gen AI attacks execute in milliseconds | Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now
“With volatility now the norm, security and risk leaders need practical guidance on... |
| Aug 15, 2024 | Black Hat USA 2024 Closes on Record-Breaking Event in Las Vegas | Black Hat, the producer of the cybersecurity industry’s most established and in-depth security events, today announced the successful completion of the in-person component of Black Hat USA 2024. The event welcomed more than 21,700 unique at... |
| May 7, 2024 | Safe to Replace SecurityScorecard and Bitsight with the Industry's First Risk-Based Third-Party Management Platform that Radically Reduces Cost and Time | Over 100 Customers, Within 1 Week of Launch, are Benefiting from Safe's Risk-Based Approach Enabling Them to Identify Their Most Riskiest Vendors and What to do About Them
PALO ALTO, Calif., May 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Third-party cybe... |
| Oct 19, 2022 | Mastercard to bring crypto trading capabilities to banks | Mastercard has introduced Crypto SourceTM, a new program to enable financial institutions to bring secure crypto trading capabilities and services to their customers. The 2022 Mastercard New Payments Index reported that 29 per cent of respo... |
| Sep 16, 2022 | Report: 54% of organizations breached through third parties in the last 12 months | Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Watch here.
Cyberattacks through an organization’s vendors or suppliers are greatly underreported. According to new research from P... |
| Jun 16, 2022 | Choose your partners carefully to protect your security | Choosing a partner business with a poor security posture makes an organization 360-times more likely to be at risk compared to choosing a top security performer, according to a new study.
The risk surface research from Cyentia Institute and... |
| Apr 21, 2022 | Cybersecurity ratings that help companies move away from third-party risk | Keep your business secure from businesses that aren’t
Automated Cybersecurity assessments that make it easy to understand and act on risks without the need for staff time or intrusive installations of any kind.
With all the information, exe... |
| Apr 17, 2022 | Lessons learned from 633 destructive ransomware events | The threat landscape continues to see rapid evolution, especially as the digital world grows increasingly connected and more organizations outsource business services. Adversaries are getting smarter, and their techniques are getting more a... |
| Feb 23, 2022 | Argos Risk and RiskRecon, a Mastercard company, Announce Partnership | "The partnership with RiskRecon builds on our commitment to provide full third-party risk mitigation to our Users, by adding sophisticated cybersecurity tools," said Lori Frank, President, and CEO of Argos Risk.
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| Dec 16, 2021 | Ransomware doesn't take weekends off | Ransomware is being targeted at organizations seven days a week, leaving no time for enterprises to shore up their security operations, according to a new report.
Analysis of publicly reported ransomware events by RiskRecon looks at the dat... |
| Nov 22, 2021 | How businesses can improve their third-party security [Q&A] | In recent years many of the most high-profile cyberattacks have come through the supply chain, involving third-party suppliers and partners.
It's historically been difficult for businesses to assess third-party risks, often involving t... |
| Oct 21, 2021 | Report: Breaches of more than one target amplify financial damage by 26 times | A multi-party breach creates 26 times more financial damage than the damage that can be caused by even the worst single-party breach, according to a new report from Mastercard company RiskRecon and Cyentia Institute.
The study, “Ripples Acr... |
| Oct 21, 2021 | Report: Breaches of more than one target amplify financial damage by 26 times | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
A multi-party breach creates 26 times more financ... |
| Sep 21, 2021 | Cybersecurity 'ripple events' lead to 26x greater losses | A new report by the Cyentia Institute, sponsored by risk management company RiskRecon has analyzed over 800 cyber incidents and their impact on multiple downstream organizations.
It finds that multi-party loss events that impact thousands o... |
| Jul 22, 2021 | Contributed | Five Ways to Protect Against Third-Party Data Breaches | Most data loss incidents have one thing in common: they revolve around third-party data breaches.
A recently released report A Crisis in Third-party Remote Access Security from SecureLink and Ponemon Institute revealed the alarming disconne... |
| Jan 26, 2021 | Exposed IoT devices put enterprises at risk | Although they are intended to make our lives simpler, the proliferation of connected devices has thrown up new headaches and risks.
New research from RiskRecon and the Cyentia Institute has looked at exposed IoT devices within a dataset of ... |
| Nov 20, 2020 | Study finds 31% of third-party vendors could cause significant damage to organizations if breached | With major companies like Marriott, Instagram, P&N Bank, and General Electric experiencing breaches related to attacks on vendors this year, it is increasingly more important for enterprises to have third-party risk management progr... |
| Sep 2, 2020 | A third of companies are exposing unsafe network services to the internet | New research finds that 33 percent of companies within the digital supply chain expose common network services such as data storage, remote access and network administration to the internet.
The study from RiskRecon and the Cyentia Institut... |
| Sep 2, 2020 | 33% of companies expose unsafe network services to the internet | Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto Must-read security coverage
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| Jul 10, 2020 | Mastercard oferece recursos e tecnologia gratuitos para apoiar PMEs durante pandemia | A Mastercard tem disponibilizado ferramentas e recursos gratuitos para apoiar as PMEs da América Latina e Caribe (LAC) durante a pandemia. Dentre as soluções está a Plataforma de aceleração digital para pequenas empresas, fruto de uma coali... |
| Jun 4, 2020 | Big U.S. Banks Could Take A Back Seat To Digital Payments Companies In The Wake Of Covid-19 | The current pandemic has forced Americans to adopt new behavioral patterns, some of which will prove temporary, while others will endure for much longer. |
| Dec 23, 2019 | Mastercard acquires security assessment startup, RiskRecon | Mastercard announced today that it is acquiring RiskRecon, a Salt Lake City startup that uses publicly available data to build security assessments of organizations. The companies did not share the purchase price.
It has become increasingly... |
| Nov 13, 2019 | Cyber incident ripple effects lead to increased losses | Cybersecurity incidents that involve more than one party incur financial losses 13 times greater than those contained within a single organization according to a new report.
The study carried out by the Cyentia Institute for RiskRecon analy... |
| Apr 30, 2019 | Third party risk is biggest enterprise cyber threat | As supply chains become more integrated and businesses rely more on using the cloud, so the risk that they face also increases.
A new study commissioned by vendor monitoring company RiskRecon and conducted by the Cyentia Institute shows tha... |
| Nov 15, 2018 | New software capability helps manage third-party cyber risks | With digital transformation enabling supply chains to become ever more integrated, businesses no longer have to worry just about the risks posed by their own systems, they must consider those they are connected to as well.
Vendor monitoring... |
| Oct 15, 2018 | New technology helps businesses to assess cyber risks | In a world of digital transformation projects that increasingly mean more links to suppliers and partners, it can be hard for companies to assess the risk presented by opening up their data to third-parties.
To address this problem RiskReco... |
| Aug 8, 2018 | Third-Party Cyber Risk Management Provider Raises $25M | Salt Lake City, UT-based RiskRecon announced it has raised $25m in Series B led by Accel and joined by existing investors Dell Technologies Capital, General Catalyst, and F-Prime Capital, the global venture capital firm affiliated with Fide... |
| Aug 8, 2018 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, August 8 | FUNDING SECURED
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| Aug 7, 2018 | RiskRecon’s security assessment services for third-party vendors raises $25 million | In June of this year, Chinese hackers managed to install software into the networks of a contractor for the U.S. Navy and steal information on a roughly $300 million top-secret submarine program.
Two years ago, hackers infiltrated the netwo... |
| Aug 7, 2018 | Third-Party Cyber Risk Management Provider RiskRecon Secures $25M | RiskRecon, a Salt Lake City, UT-based third-party cyber risk management provider, raised $25m in Series B financing.
The round, which brings total funding to more than $40m, was led by Accel with participation from existing investors Dell T... |
| Aug 7, 2018 | General Catalyst Joins $25M Series B for RiskRecon | Salt Lake City, Utah-based RiskRecon, which provides risk management cybersecurity services for the enterprise, announced it has raised $25 million in Series B funding. Accel led the round and was joined by existing investors Dell Technolog... |
| Aug 7, 2018 | RiskRecon Completes $25M Series B Round |
SALT LAKE CITY, UT, RiskRecon, the fastest-growing company transforming management of third-party cyber risk, today announced it has raised $25 million in Series B financing.
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| Jun 3, 2017 | RiskRecon Raises $12M Series A | RiskRecon, a SaaS provider of objective, vendor security assessments and insights, today announced it has completed a $12 million Series A financing round led by Dell Technologies Capital with additional participation from F-Prime Capital P... |
| Jun 3, 2017 | General Catalyst Joins $12M Series A for RiskRecon | RiskRecon, a SaaS provider of objective, vendor security assessments and insights, today announced it has completed a $12 million Series A financing round led by Dell Technologies Capital with additional participation from F-Prime Capital P... |
| Jun 1, 2017 | RiskRecon Raises $12M |
SALT LAKE CITY, UT, RiskRecon, a SaaS provider of objective, vendor security assessments and insights, today announced it has completed a $12 million Series A financing round.
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| Jun 1, 2017 | RiskRecon Completes $12M Series A Financing | RiskRecon, a Salt Lake City, CA-based SaaS provider of objective, vendor security assessments and insights, completed a $12m Series A financing.
The round was led by Dell Technologies Capital with additional participation from F-Prime Capit... |
| Jun 1, 2017 | Dell Leads $12M Investment in Security Assessments Firm RiskRecon | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s hard enough for businesses and organizations to secure their own networks against cyber attackers. But with the rise of cloud computing and increased outsourcing of busin... |
| Jun 1, 2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, June 1 | EXITS AND CONFLICTS
NYC Tech: Awhile back I had promised to provide updated deal data comparing exits for startups from NYC, LA and Boston. We can’t compare deal value of M&A exits since so many of the prices are not confirmed. For exam... |
| Jun 6, 2016 | BitSight Follows FICO Model as Cybersecurity Ratings Industry Grows | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
As cyber threats grow more complex and damaging, an independent rating that assesses the strength of a company’s defenses could become a new kind of currency in the business w... |
| Apr 8, 2016 | Daily funding roundup - April 8, 2016 | Getui bagged $180M; Twiggle secured $12.5M; KiteDesk completed $6M funding round
RiskRecon landed seed-round financing led by General Catalyst Partners and several private investors. The funding will enable RiskRecon to expand its product d... |
| Apr 8, 2016 | RiskRecon Raises $3M in Funding | RiskRecon, a Boston, MA-based provider of a data-driven, third-party vendor risk assessment platform, raised $3m in seed funding.
The round was led by General Catalyst Partners with participation from other investors.
The company intends to... |
| Apr 7, 2016 | RiskRecon scores $3 million seed round to provide objective cloud vendor security assessments | RiskRecon, a startup that helps companies make objective security assessments of third-party cloud vendors, emerged from stealth today with a $3 million seed round led by General Catalyst. Several unnamed private investors also participated... |
| Apr 7, 2016 | RiskRecon Announces $3M Seed Round |
BOSTON, MA, RiskRecon today announced seed-round financing led by General Catalyst Partners and several private investors.
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| Apr 4, 2016 | New Money: RiskRecon Gets $3M GCP-Led Round, Lola Raises $19.7M Series A | Get a daily dose of Boston startup funding news in The Beat. Sign up here. New Money is BostInno's report on all the tech funding deals this week. Check back for updates.
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| Mastercard oferece recursos e tecnologia gratuitos para apoiar PMEs durante pandemia | A Mastercard tem disponibilizado ferramentas e recursos gratuitos para apoiar as PMEs da América Latina e Caribe (LAC) durante a pandemia. Dentre as soluções está a Plataforma de aceleração digital para pequenas empresas, fruto de uma coali... |