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Dcode Capital/Accel Partners Cybersecurity investing hit an all-time high in 2020 with over $7.8 billion of checks written. Investors are focusing on angel, seed, and early-stage rounds, aiming to get in on the ground floor. Insider asked five plugged-in investors about key trends and their top startups in the sector.  The cybersecurity market is booming like few other sectors of investing. Venture capitalists poured more than $7.8 billion into the cybersecurity industry globally in 2020, setting a new record. PitchBook, the startup analyst company, estimated th...

Silicon Valley Takes the Battlespace Through an obscure startup named Rebellion Defense, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt attempts to buy his way into the Biden White House. Days after winning the November election, Joe Biden announced the names of those staffing his transition. Big Tech landed prominent spots. Among the hundreds of personnel on the agency review teams serving the president-elect, there was one from Uber, two from Amazon, and one from Google. And then there were two people from Rebellion Defense, a shadowy defense startup. The announcement sent Washington insiders scrambling to...

REUTERS/Brendan McDermid This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. The $134.6 billion cybersecurity industry already went through a year of dramatic change in 2020 – and then the SolarWinds attack hit. The sprawling supply-chain attack that hit federal agencies and thousands of businesses has accelerated key changes already underway. The changes include a new approach of "assume breach," in which companies search for intrusions constantly. "Shift left," a trend of mo...

This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. The SolarWinds cybersecurity attack will bring "a seismic increase in spending" in the $20 billion cybersecurity industry, analysts say.  "We believe there is a $200 billion dollar growth opportunity in cloud security 'up for grabs,' one analyst wrote.  "It is a race against the clock for organizations to regain control over their environments," says another. Experts say several sectors of cybersecurity are about to surge, including companies that address...

this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt >> tom: good evening and thanks for joining us. the u.s. economy has been growing at a faster pace than previous estimates, but consumers are becoming more gloomy. >> susie: tom, it's a mixed bag of information. let's look at the numbers. the commerce department reported today that the gross domestic product or g.d.p. grew 3.1% in the last three months of 2010, up from an earlier estimate of 2.8%. but more recent data on the consumer from reuters and the u...