As part of Team8’s ongoing cybersecurity research, we come up with a set of annual cybersecurity themes, together with our financial partner, WisdomTree. These themes are meant to represent the key areas driving the future growth of cybersecurity each year. These themes also drive the WisdomTree-Team8 Cybersecurity Index, which is designed to track high-growth publicly-traded...

Welcoming Gem Security to the Team8 family, as it raises $11M in Seed funding to tackle Cloud Threat Detection, Investigation and Response (TDIR)

Cloud adoption continues to rise at an accelerated pace. According to Gartner, global public cloud services spend is expected to grow by 20.4% this year (2022) to $494.7 billion and approach $600 billion in 2023. However, cloud migration and adoption might lead to implementing technology without the necessary cloud security considerations. Cloud implementations come with...

Ultimately, CEOs are responsible for every bad thing that happens to the company, but they’re not experts on everything. They depend on the experts who report to them. One of these is the CISO. What should the CEO ask the CISO to ensure the company’s interests are being served and served best under their constraints?...

Startups are never easy. But in the last decade - and especially during the 'Covid boom' of 2020-2021 - money was less of an issue. With near endless flows of capital into private markets and a booming stock market, founders had access to unprecedented amounts of cash.

When venture-backed companies were chasing growth metrics, higher cloud bills were shrugged off as unavoidable. But the exuberance of the last few years is fading, and investors are adopting a more somber approach to their portfolio companies’ financials. Usage-based cloud and SaaS services, which have become a major cost center, are coming into the spotlight.

Who are the cybersecurity insiders? What motivates them to build companies in this ever-evolving landscape? What’s keeping them up at night? October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. This year’s theme is “See Yourself in Cyber”, highlighting the human element in an industry that might seem complex and daunting to many. To mark the occasion, we spoke...

OX Security, the newest addition to the Team8 family, is pioneering the next generation of software supply chain security and integrity. Now that news of its $34M funding has been made public