In the latest edition of #ForgepointTIPS, Forgepoint Capital Venture Partner Dr. Shane Shook digs into the concepts of vertical and horizontal security and how they relate to the finance business unit: 🚨Company-wide horizontal security measures are essential, but so are the vertical needs of specific business units. Too often, there’s a disconnect between Security and departments like Finance. 💲 This leads to gaps in security posture, higher incident risks, and broader impacts from fraud, embezzlement, and theft. 🔒 Shift left to synchronize finance and security and implement coordinated horizontal and vertical measures. Read on to learn more. Thanks to Shane and VERITUITY CEO Ben Turner for their insights and to 1Kosmos, SPHERE, and Verituity for helping finance teams protect business-critical treasury and cash management systems and processes. #shiftleftforfinance #forgepointfamily #TIPS
Forgepoint Capital
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
San Mateo, CA 21,621 followers
We back exceptional entrepreneurs tackling the biggest challenges in cybersecurity and infrastructure software.
About us
Forgepoint is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with transformative cybersecurity and infrastructure software companies. With the largest sector-focused investment team, over $1 billion in AUM, and an active portfolio of nearly 40 companies, the firm brings over 100 years of collective company-building expertise and an Advisory Council of nearly 100 industry leaders to support exceptional entrepreneurs. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, Forgepoint is proud to cultivate a diverse, global community dedicated to backing builders of the digital future. Our team is honored to collaborate closely with the extraordinary innovators featured here on LinkedIn. For more information about Forgepoint and our family of companies, visit forgepointcap.com.
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https://forgepointcap.com/
External link for Forgepoint Capital
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- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- San Mateo, CA
- Type
- Partnership
- Founded
- 2015
- Specialties
- Cybersecurity, Venture Capital, Growth Equity, Series A, Series B, Software, Infrastructure, DevOps, Identity, Software Supply Chain, SMB Security, AI/Gen AI Security, and Cyber Risk Management
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400 S. El Camino Real
Suite 1050
San Mateo, CA 94402, US
Employees at Forgepoint Capital
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Freddy Jose Mangum
Servant Leader in Marketing & Product, Transforming Innovation To Value | $50B IPO | 5 Acquisitions $3B | 2X VP | 4X CMO | 2X CPO
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Alberto Yépez
Serial entrepreneur, experienced investor and company builder
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Shane Shook
Security and Information Governance, Forgepoint Capital Venture Partner
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Joe Levy
CEO at Sophos
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The responsibilities of boards of directors regarding #cybersecurity are changing significantly, as is the #cybersec industry itself. McKinsey & Company’s Sean Brown speaks with Vinnie Liu, the co-founder and CEO of Bishop Fox, and McKinsey cyber-resilience experts Justin Greis and Daniel Wallance about how boards of directors should approach oversight of cybersecurity. Listen to the "Inside the Strategy Room" conversation here: https://lnkd.in/g7WADg-U #forgepointfamily
A board-level view of cyber resilience
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Dive into the latest episode of SolCyber 's “Tales from the SOC”, where Paul Ducklin and David Emerson, CTO at SolCyber, challenge the status quo of #cybersecurity practices. Discover: ✅ Why "shiny new tools" might leave you vulnerable ✅ The power of practical, non-academic security approaches ✅ How to build a true cybersecurity culture Tune in to learn how SolCyber is revolutionizing the approach to digital defense, making it more accessible and effective for businesses of all sizes: https://lnkd.in/echt5SGd #forgepointfamily
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Back again with another #BlackHat 2024 CyberBytes podcast - Thank you to fama PR for sponsoring this episode! I welcomed Chris Bisnett, CTO and Co-Founder of Huntress. We discussed the constant development of Huntress and the real need of an SMB managed security platform. Huntress is a leading managed security platform who focus on protecting Endpoints, Identities and Employees with a focus on custom-built for SMB’s to constantly manage and develop their internal security. During this episode Ben and Chris discussed: 🎩 A background in the Navy, leading an Engineering team to finally cracking the Cybersecurity space with Huntress and becoming a co-founder. 🎩 A brand new SIEM product that has helped develop their current product stack 🎩 Never forgetting your roots and still being on the front line at conferences and discussing with customers and addressing Huntress product issues 🎩 The Shopify idea that helps them weigh up the demand from end users on constant developments of product stacks on what the focus is next. Check out the episode below and make sure to like and subscribe to stay up-to-date on the latest CyberBytes: BlackHat 2024 Editions! If you want to be involved in any future podcast’s, either in person or remotely, please don't hesitate in reaching out. 🎥 - https://lnkd.in/eD8AfrxM 🎧 - https://lnkd.in/ecV3GS2m #BlackHat24 #CyberBytes #CyberBytesBH #Podcast #Cybersecurity
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Gain invaluable insights on the critical role of Active Directory (AD) groups in identity hygiene and access management in SPHERE's recent Smells Like Identity Hygiene episode with Fredy Alejandro Martinez-Pardo, Field CISO at SPHERE. https://hubs.li/Q02HNDnx0 #forgepointfamily
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#BlackHat2024 is in the books! Our team had a blast meeting with the founders, cybersecurity leaders, investors, advisors, and supporters of the Forgepoint community. Thank you to all who joined our capstone events with Vision and Voice, Foundation Capital, IQT (In-Q-Tel), and SVB, and congratulations to our companies on another great show! Meanwhile, Kathryn Shih interviewed Bishop Fox's Rob Ragan about pen testing LLMs and AI applications, Alberto Yépez shared thoughts on SaaS and AI sprawl for Nasdaq, Shane Shook penned a TIPS blog on the concept of secure in operation and Tanya Loh recapped highlights from Huntress's Summer Summit in NYC. Kudos on all the awards, breakthroughs, insights and continued impact! Read on for more of the latest news including recent achievements across the #forgepointfamily of companies: https://lnkd.in/gNRYVPU9
Forgepoint News from the /Forefront/: July 2024
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#ICYMI Brooke M. of RAD Security sat down with Oliver Legg of Aspiron Search during #BlackHat2024. Listen to the full #CyberBytes episode below.
RAD Security. The ONLY security vendor to be finalists at the 2024 #RSA Innovation Sandbox AND the #BlackHat Startup Spotlight Competition kick off my BlackHat Edition of #CyberBytes: The Podcast. CEO and Co-Founder, Brooke M., and I sat down during BlackHat last week to talk about her incredible journey so far and what’s next for the Runtime Security vendor. Check the episode out to find out: 🔵 How a 3-hour hike led to joining forces with Co-founder, Jimmy Mesta 🤙 to found K8 security vendor, KSOC 🔵 The rebrand to RAD Security with the unique retro sunglasses wearing polar bear 🔵 Brooke’s impressive sales career prior to RAD 🔵 The challenges that female founders face when raising and scaling companies and Brooke’s positive outlook on how this can shift Ex Rapid7 and SignalScience folk have founded some exceptional companies. With Brooke & Jimmy at the helm and impressive investors including Andrew Peterson, Alberto Yépez, Ernie B. & Ronald Gula, we have no doubt that RAD Security will achieve huge things. YouTube & Spotify links below. Enjoy the show! 📺 YouTube: https://lnkd.in/eiWciJsF 🎙 Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gjrdGkay
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Oliver Legg of Aspiron Search welcomed Alberto Yépez, Co-founder & Managing Director of Forgepoint Capital, to the #BlackHat2024 Edition of #CyberBytes : The Podcast! "Alberto’s impressive career started as an early employee at Apple, helping build the foundations of the company we all know today. He has been involved in many of the most exciting security vendors, and driven Forgepoint to take a unique approach to investing. One key to their success has been a truly global reach and push away from just Silicon Valley. An example being finding the founders of ReversingLabs Labs in Croatia and helping them become a leading supply chain security company. 🔵 The meaning of bringing Context & Contacts to early-stage companies 🔵 The creation of a defined talent function and bringing on Karl Sharman in-house and the impact it's had on ForgePoint’s investments 🔵 The unique approach Forgepoint takes with their own staff and deep exposure employees get very early on " Watch the entire podcast here: https://lnkd.in/g9mCKuuH
BlackHat 2024: Building Greatness in Security - Alberto Yepez, ForgePoint Capital
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Forgepoint Capital reposted this
Economic uncertainties and rapid technological advancements are transforming the cybersecurity landscape. 🎯 The recent high-profile #breaches and the sophisticated use of automation and #AI by adversaries have intensified the demand for robust security measures, said Alberto Yépez, co-founder and managing director at Forgepoint Capital. Watch the full interview here ▶ https://lnkd.in/dgaKDgbv #ISMGNews #ISMGStudio #cybersecurity #BHUSA Tom Field
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Since last spring we have released 18 cybersecurity-related TIPS (Threat Intelligence Portfolio Spotlights), referencing a range of trending topics and impactful solutions to challenges. Thanks to Dr. Shane Shook and our #forgepointfamily portfolio companies for providing these resourceful tips, browse through them on our website: https://lnkd.in/g_ijb2w4 #TIPS #cybersecurity
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