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PHOTO: TONY GENTILE/REUTERS
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Mandia's next gig: Startup Armadin entered the highly competitive AI cybersecurity arena Tuesday with $189.9 million in seed and Series A funding. CEO Kevin Mandia, who sold his incident-response company Mandiant to Google for $5.4 billion in 2022, said Armadin uses AI agents to hunt vulnerabilities in corporate tech.
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CISA canceled meetings that were to have started this week with critical infrastructure providers because of the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, part of DHS, had planned a series of webinars to discuss rules due out this year, mandated by the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act. The rules will likely be delayed, CISA said.
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Many energy, healthcare, financial services and other infrastructure companies have pressed for minimal new rules, saying other federal, state and industry bodies already impose onerous and sometimes conflicting regulations.
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Wealth-management company Mercer Advisors failed to protect personal data, including customer contracts, according to a lawsuit filed by people whose information was stolen by hackers in February. The ShinyHunters ransomware gang published online data it claimed to have stolen from Denver-based Mercer after breaking into the company's networks. (Classaction.org)
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$814,000
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Average compensation for a CISO at a public company in the U.S. and Canada, according to research from recruiter Hitch Partners, which surveyed 625 corporate cyber leaders.
Consumer software and internet companies paid the most, at $928,000 on average.
Professional services firms paid the least, at $407,000.
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