Cybersecurity giant Tanium scores $150 million, following HQ move to Seattle area
January 28, 2021 at 7:46 am
Tanium CEO Orion Hindawi recently moved the company’s headquarters to Kirkland. (Tanium Photo)
Tanium may not be a household name, at least not yet. But the fast-growing cybersecurity company, which moved its headquarters from the San Francisco Bay Area to Kirkland, Wash. last year, is well on its way. And now it has a fresh round of capital to help fuel the next phase of growth.
Tanium announced Thursday that it sold $150 million in common stock to the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Canada’s largest pension plan and an active investor in late-stage technology companies.
Google Cloud Tuesday unveiled BeyondCorp Enterprise, its new zero trust identity and security platform with agentless support delivered through Google’s Chrome browser that’s used by more than 2 billion users globally.
Now generally available, BeyondCorp Enterprise is designed to provide continuous and real-time end-to-end protection, scalable DDoS protection and built-in, verifiable platform security. It includes embedded data and threat protection built into Chrome which has been quietly updated already to prevent malicious or unintentional data loss and exfiltration and malware infections from the network to the browser; phishing-resistant authentication; and continuous authorization for all interactions between a user and BeyondCorp-protected resources.
Snow-ridden Ohio plays off Seattle’s rainy weather in clever ad campaign to attract jobs
January 27, 2021 at 12:11 pm
Hey, Seattle: The Buckeye state is coming for your jobs.
JobsOhio, the economic development agency of the midwestern state, is running a series of billboards throughout Seattle touting the benefits of living in a place where one can “actually save for a rainy day.”
The GeekWire team spotted the billboards in the Magnolia and Queen Anne neighborhoods two enclaves populated with thousands of tech workers that border major tech campuses (Expedia, Facebook and Amazon). Of course, those tech campuses are largely vacant these days so it’s unclear how many motorists are actually seeing the billboards.
The Manhattan Google headquarters is seen on January 25, 2021 in New York City. The company announced a new suite of zero trust security capabilities built into Chrome. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Google is rolling out a suite of new zero trust security capabilities built directly into its Chrome browser.
The suite, called BeyondCorp Enterprise, is designed to expand on and replace BeyondCorp Remote Access, the companyâs cloud-based subscription tool that helps workers securely log in to their work systems and applications from home. The expansion announced this week includes a number of new features, including phish-resistant authentication, embedded data and threat protection, DDoS protection, continuous user authorization agentless support and other services that before now were only available internally to Google employees.