GSC Blogs from March 2009 (7)Venture Capital Roundup: over $24 million invested in security start-ups in March2009-03-31 Here is another roundup of recent funding rounds in security and defence startups. In March 2009 alone, we saw close to $25 million in investments by venture capitalists and angel investors in security start-ups worldwide. We regulary track VC investment... Hackers the Chaos They Create2009-03-26 Popular Mechanics wrote an intersting article in their April magazine about the threat posed by hackers. They mentioned a admittance by the CIA of a hacker or hackers who were able to disrupt utilities in multiple regions outside the US.&n... VC Trends in IT Security - new study by Forrester Research with advice from GSC2009-03-18 Jonathan Penn from Forrester Research just published a new report, called "VC Trends in IT Security". The Global Security Challenge was interviewed as one of the sources for this report. Summary of the VC/Security Study:VCs ... New GSC Competition for Cyber Security Addresses a $1 Trillion Dollar Problem -- ENTER TODAY2009-03-12 Global Security Challenge (GSC), the leading security innovation competition, launched a new competition today focusing on information assurance and cyber security technologies. The top three winners of this competition win cash prizes totalli... New EU Security Database to be scrapped?2009-03-09 a guest column by Moritz Schneider, political journalist in Berlin The upgrade of the EU’s security database has been delayed due to major technical, financial and legal problems. There are concerns that the new database Schengen Information System... Friday Relief: weekly interactive short story about "Max the Spy" - Chapter 5 Today2009-03-06 In cooperation with www.spuukie.com, each Friday we will feature one segment from an interactive short story, called “Max The Spy”. This funny and somewhat poignant story of Max the British spy trapped in post-ww2 Berlin. A world within ... European Parliament may sell body scanners2009-03-02 a guest column by Moritz Schneider, political journalist in Berlin After 09/11, the European Parliament’s administrative body purchased six body scanners to be installed in the event of a serious terrorist alert and to improve the overall parliamen... |
