Each business day, MSSP Alert broadcasts a quick lineup of news, analysis and chatter from across the managed security services provider ecosystem.
A. Today’s MSSP, MDR, XDR and Cybersecurity News Alerts
1. Funding - XDR for SMB: Blueshift Cybersecurity has raised $6.0 million ion seed funding from WestWave Capital and CyberJunction. Blueshift will utilize the seed capital to expand sales, marketing, and channel development efforts, invest further in R&D and operations, and build out its management team, the company indicated.
2. Funding - SaaS Security: DoControl has raised a $30 million Series B funding led by Insight Partners, with participation from StageOne Ventures, Cardumen Capital, RTP Global, and CrowdStrike's early stage investment fund.
3. Funding - Autonomous Red Teaming: Prelude, a Washington, D.C-based startup that helps organizations harden their cyber defenses through the use of autonomous red-teaming, has secured $24 million in Series A funding, TechCrunch reported.
4. Funding - Cybersecurity Awareness Training: HacWare has raised $2.3 million in seed funding to expand its cybersecurity awareness and training offering, TechCrunch said.
5. Rackspace Becoming MSSP?: Rackspace Technology has joined the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), an ecosystem of security software companies and MSSPs. It's the latest clue that Rackspace is more fully extending from multi-cloud managed services to cybersecurity services.
6. Botnet Disrupted: Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) has taken legal and technical action to disrupt a criminal botnet called ZLoader, according to a Microsoft blog.
7. Microsoft Security Advisory: Microsoft has released an advisory to address CVE-2022-26809, a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Remote Procedure Call Runtime Library, the CISA reported.
8. Leadership: SnapAttack has hired Paul Caiazzo as chief growth officer.
9. Talent - Identity and Access Management: Ping Identity has named Rakesh Thaker as its new SVP, chief development officer.
10. Partner Program: Offensive Security has launched the Offensive Security Global Partner Program.
