🚀 Big news! @SocketSecurity just raised a $40M Series B round to combat next-gen software supply chain security attacks and defend open source. The round was led by @AbstractVC, with @eladgil, @a16z, and top angels. We have big plans for the $$$ – see thread ⬇️ 🧵 1/10

AI is insecure by default. The open secret is that most AI apps launch with serious flaws. It takes MORE time to secure these apps than it does to build them. I learned this firsthand from shipping LLM agents to 200M users at Discord and supporting LLM evals for hundreds of

Really excited to announce leading the Series A in @SocketSecurity and delighted to be working with @feross and team! https://t.co/LoXh3v31lZ

🎉🐍 Socket now supports Python! With millions of developers using Python for everything from data science to web development, we're excited to announce that @SocketSecurity now helps developers easily audit, manage, and secure their Python packages! 🚀 1/10

I think a lot of practitioners are curious about this (I get this question a lot) and I figured it might be fun to go live and do a Q&A with some of my favorite founders whom I aspire to be: @haroonmeer and @zanelackey . Sign up here: https://t.co/3n2TINU4MB

Truffle Security is proud to host a new XSSHunter, that finds new vulnerabilities

If you love building DevOps and cybersecurity companies, come work with me on the @a16z infra team! Here’s the info: https://t.co/PrQZ3ETNgI

As a founder working on your business day in & out, it can be hard to know which outputs matter & how they stack up across your peers. As investors who live in the metrics, @DavidGeorge83 @aleximm & I try to demystify this w/ our new growth metrics tool👇 https://t.co/5KTGfi0wcJ

[New Post] The Cloud Killed Infra, Long Live Infra! The application first moved to the cloud Now it's outgrowing it And vertical clouds are signaling a new era of software infra Blog post here, key points below:👇 https://t.co/YreLQUn9eC

1/ 🧠🔐 As our lives have moved online, and we now have multiple identities and devices, understanding and managing our security and privacy has never been more important, or more challenging.

🚨Big deal alert 🚨 I’m super proud to tell you that @material_sec has raised $100M at a $1.1B valuation from @traestephens at @foundersfund with participation by @a16z and @eladgil.

…and now on to the new! So excited that I finally get to share this: I’ve joined @a16z as a General Partner! I’m concentrating on enterprise infrastructure (DevOps/DevTools/Security) and love that I get to focus full time on helping fellow founders build amazing companies 🎉

What a ride SigSci was! I cannot say thank you enough to everyone who was a Signal Sciences employee, customer, partner, investor, and supporter during the journey. You were all amazing and it was truly a once in a lifetime experience!

🎉🎉🎉 this is a 3 emoji day for me. Happy to announce that @material_sec has raised another $40M led by @eladgil to save the world from hacked email and bring #ZeroTrust to your mailbox. Thank you customers! Thank you team! I love my job.

So happy to finally be able to share what we've built. Thank you team, customers, and investors! @a16z @eladgil @martin_casado @joesu11ivan @senorarroz @drewhouston @tjack @awadallah @diogomonica @Magoo and others

I had a great time speaking with @riskybusiness. We discussed how building a security program is different in 2015 vs 2020 and some of the differences that have surprised me. Thanks to @signalsciences for making it happen.

Please visit my new site, https://t.co/tP7CoHTfk8, a learning platform dedicated to teaching Application Security, DevSecOps, and Cloud Security.

This is a truly exciting day, 3 years in the making! We are open sourcing Nebula, the global overlay networking tool we use to connect every computer at @SlackHQ. I hope you enjoy reading about (and using!) Nebula.

We're Cmd. We believe in a #defenseindepth approach to securing enterprise #data in the #cloud, and we can't wait to show you what we've created. Watch this space for updates. You're going to want to be the first to hear them.

We have a client with a Signal Sciences thingy and I kind of wish all our clients did; it’s pretty great.