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NEW YORK / BOSTON (Reuters)- Rapid7, LogRhythm and Mimecast are joining a growing list of cybersecurity firms planning to go public in 2015 to capitalize on investor interest following a spate of hacker attacks, according to people familiar with the matter.

Friday's cyberattack in more than 150 countries has reminded the world it's important to get the basics of online security right, a chief executive officer of a cybersecurity firm told CNBC.

Equifax released the new estimate on Monday, a day after Mandiant, the computer forensics division of the cybersecurity firm FireEye (feye) that Equifax hired, completed its full review of the damage.

Greg Martin, CEO of the cybersecurity firm JASK, described EternalBlue as «a universal skeleton key.»

But the exposed database combined people's personal information and political inclinations — including proprietary information gathered via predictive modeling tools — to create a detailed profile of nearly 200 million Americans that would be a «gold mine» for anyone looking to target and manipulate voters, said Archie Agarwal, the founder of the cybersecurity firm ThreatModeler.

Michael T. Flynn, a Trump campaign adviser who went on to be his national security adviser, was paid more than $ 65,000 by companies linked to Russia in 2015, including an American branch of a cybersecurity firm believed to have connections to Russia's intelligence services, according to congressional investigators.

George Kurtz, CEO of the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, has speculated that the politically isolated nation, which was subjected to sanctions following a 2014 hack of Sony Pictures, may be stockpiling bitcoin to finance future attacks.

Citibank's concerns are supported by findings of the cybersecurity firm Mandiant that says at least 80 of the 100 biggest firms in the country, by revenue, have been hacked since 2011.

On August 22, 2013, Yahoo News reported that Marc Maiffret, a chief technology officer of the cybersecurity firm BeyondTrust, is prompting hackers to help raise a $ 10,000 reward for Khalil Shreateh.

James Lerud, head of cybersecurity firm Verodin's behavioural research unit, told Siliconrepublic.com that consumer vigilance is key.

Over 25 % of bank users and consumers in the UK could have their data exposed on the Dark Web — massive breach of privacy - Emma Mills, Chief Operating Officer of cybersecurity firm C6, said that financial and personal information of over 11 million consumers and bank users are currently being traded on the dark web.

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Recorded Future, a cybersecurity firm, published an analysis Tuesday laying out evidence that North Korean hackers — the same group, known as Lazarus, blamed for the infamous hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2014 — were systematically targeting and plundering South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges.

Cybersecurity firm Check Point Software (chkp) uncovered a malware app called Adylkuzz spreading across the web starting around the same time as the WannaCry ransomware app and using some of the same stolen - from - the - NSA methods.

Daniel Miessler, advisory services director at the cybersecurity firm IOActive, has a recommendation that «would cost infinitely less than the dumpster fire of products we constantly purchase and deploy for millions of dollars a year,» as he writes on his personal blog: simply hire a couple of people to maintain a catalog.

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Timothy Edgar, author of Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance and the Struggle to Reform the NSA and a specialist on cybersecurity at Brown University, said the convenience of Virtru's software gives it a market advantage currently but that, in general, firms offering encryption - based security likely have a bright future.

The firm's principals have been investing in cybersecurity since 1998 and have made a total of 35 cybersecurity investments.

The Seattle - based cybersecurity firm found major security flaws in industrial models sold by Universal Robots, a division of U.S. technology company Teradyne Inc..

On Tuesday, the cybersecurity firm made technical details of the hacks public.

«If they are successful, they could drain the full value of the company — that's easily in the millions,» said Rich Mason, president and chief security officer of cybersecurity consulting firm Critical Infrastructure.

«For example, if I hack into a major law firm and then realize that this law firm has direct communication channels with the Fortune 50, then I can leapfrog from this law firm into all of those entities,» said Tom Kellermann, chief security officer at cybersecurity vendor Trend Micro.

The fevered anticipation of «Pokemon Go» and limited release globally has created opportunities for attackers, a cybersecurity software firm said.

Clay Calvert, director of cybersecurity at IT firm MetroStar Systems, said communication with employees in a position to turn rogue is key.

Kaspersky Lab, the Russia - based cybersecurity company known for its Internet security software, was dealt a heavy blow today when the Department of Homeland Security issued a directive banning the firm's products from use in the federal government.

Take, for example, cybersecurity firms Rapid7, LogRhythm, and Mimecast — all of which plan to go public later this year with valuations exceeding $ 1 billion.

Beyond Sequoia, cybersecurity firms of late have been seeing marked investor interest.

The alert noted that in a recent SEC Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations study of 75 financial firms, 5 percent of broker - dealers and 26 percent of advisors and investment funds did not conduct periodic risk assessments of critical systems to uncover vulnerabilities, potential business consequences and other cybersecurity threats.

Though Check Point was first to call attention to the threat, the honor of first discovery goes to Qihoo 360, a Chinese cybersecurity firm.

«When I heard the team [at Tanium] was looking to expand the board, I really went for it in terms of pursuing it as an opportunity,» said Chadwick, who five years ago joined the board of F5 Networks (ffiv), a public cybersecurity firm that provides software to data centers.

Ahern earned an electrical engineering degree from University of Vermont and with help from an unnamed angel investor who «bet on people heading in the right direction» started a company in 2002 — Industrial Defender, a cybersecurity firm that protects industrial control systems for the electrical grid, oil and gas, and chemical companies — which Lockheed Martin acquired in 2014.

The details released Friday confirms only some of the information published weeks ago by Gemini Advisory LLC, a cybersecurity firm that detected the breach after it noticed an influx of stolen credit and debit card information for sale.

Nir Polak, CEO of Exabeam, a cybersecurity startup that analyzes employees» metadata, says there are two main reasons customers buy his firm's monitoring product.

She also led the development of the firm's crowdsourced real - time cyberthreat intelligence and analytics used to protect critical infrastructure, played a key role in developing McAfee's cybersecurity policy position, and on several occasions testified before Congress on cybersecurity technology and policy.

These breach disclosures affirm the wisdom of New York state implementing its trailblazing cybersecurity rules for financial services firms that took effect last March, and which were amended with the SHIELD act in November.

With nearly 2.5 million miles of oil, gas and chemical pipelines crisscrossing the country, intrusions into control systems could do more than disrupt deliveries, said Andrew R. Lee, a cybersecurity expert at the law firm Jones Walker in New Orleans.

The AP did its own triage, dedicating two months and a small team of reporters to go through a hit list of Fancy Bear targets provided by the cybersecurity firm Secureworks.

For the past year, researchers at iSight Partners, a cybersecurity firm in Dallas, have been tracking a new form of malware, dubbed ModPOS, that attacks point of sale, or POS, machines at the kernel.

In a troubling report released this week, global cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab found that, since 2013, there has been an ongoing infiltration of over 100 banks and financial institutions in 30 different countries.

«The No. 1 thing is to make backups» of critical files, said Nate Villeneuve, a principle threat intelligence analyst at FireEye, a cybersecurity firm in Milpitas, California.

The firm's 2017 edition of its annual cybersecurity report entitled «Cybersecurity Report: Chief Security Officers Reveal True Cost of Breaches And The Actions That Organizations Are Taking,» provides insights based on threat intelligence gathered by Cisco's security experts, combined with input from nearly 3,000 Chief Security Officers (CSOs) and other security operations leaders from businesses in cybersecurity report entitled «Cybersecurity Report: Chief Security Officers Reveal True Cost of Breaches And The Actions That Organizations Are Taking,» provides insights based on threat intelligence gathered by Cisco's security experts, combined with input from nearly 3,000 Chief Security Officers (CSOs) and other security operations leaders from businesses in Cybersecurity Report: Chief Security Officers Reveal True Cost of Breaches And The Actions That Organizations Are Taking,» provides insights based on threat intelligence gathered by Cisco's security experts, combined with input from nearly 3,000 Chief Security Officers (CSOs) and other security operations leaders from businesses in 13 countries.

• Prevoty, a Los Angeles - based autonomous application protection firm, raised $ 13 million of Series B funding led by Trident Capital Cybersecurity and was joined by investors including USVP.

Earlier that year, in July 2015, Splunk completed a $ 190 million acquisition of Caspida, a cybersecurity firm that sold user behavior analytics tools, which parse large data sets for patterns and anomalies.

The situation came to light thanks to a tweet by Jackie Stokes, founder of cybersecurity advisory firm Spyglass Security.

«We are working with a leading cybersecurity firm to further evaluate the integrity of our information systems.»

Cybersecurity experts at the intelligence firm ThreatConnect also linked Guccifer 2.0 back to Russia and concluded the hacker was the product of a Russian disinformation campaign.

Before becoming head of the cybersecurity and data privacy division at law firm Mayer Brown, he served as general counsel for the National Security Agency during the most notorious data breach in history: Edward Snowden's exposing of the agency's surveillance programs.

FireEye learned of the hacks by examining roughly 400 GB of corporate data that was leaked when hackers breached the cybersecurity firm Hacking Team.

Hackers who breached cybersecurity firm Hacking Team earlier this month exposed a trove of sensitive emails detailing the inner workings of the company's clients: Government spy agencies.

Working in fields ranging from digital health and fintech to cybersecurity, quantum computing and artificial intelligence, an impressive group of Canadian ventures will showcase their technologies to investors from over 20 firms, including Silicon Valley Bank, Venrock and Mithril Capital Management.