In our latest Securetech newsletter, we gave you a list of the top 5 doses of 2021, specifically for security startups. In case you missed it, here’s the list.

Mel Shakir, Securetech Managing Director with over 15 years of experience in bringing innovative cybersecurity solutions to market, is back to give his tips on product management.

Mel Shakir, Securetech Managing Director, talks to CISOs every day in his role at Dreamit. He coaches companies to get them ready to sell to a CISO. However, he also coaches them on what to avoid. In this Dreamit Dose, Mel gives you 5 reasons a CISO may NOT buy your product.

Most founders consider two possibilities when thinking about their exit strategy: IPO or acquisition. The process of startup M&A likely remains shrouded in mystery for founders who have never seen it first-hand. We invited Amit Yoran, CEO of Tenable, and Mike Viscuso, Co-Founder of Carbon Black, on #DreamitLive to answer these questions and more. We pulled out 5 key lessons from the discussion to shed some light on M&A and help you navigate what can either be an extremely rewarding or painful process.

Our friends at Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), in partnership with the City of New York, are looking for cybersecurity startups to compete in the Cybersecurity Moonshot Challenge, a competition to win a $1 million investment from Jerusalem Venture Partners and the chance to join Hub.NYC.

Earlier this week, the team at Strategic Cyber Ventures released a report on the state of the cybersecurity venture market. Venture investors poured $5.3 billion into cybersecurity startups in 2018. This is a 20% increase from 2017, which saw about $4.4 billion in venture capital investment in the cybersecurity space.

Dreamit SecureTech and SOSA are teaming up to host a night of networking, learning, and startup demos with founders and venture investors from the New York cybersecurity community. We’re looking for 10 pre-”Series A” startups to pitch their products to investors at the event.

Ever since we started CYR3CON, we are continually surprised at the hype cycle surrounding the application of machine learning. Many marketers opportunistically see it as another angle to entice buyers — and in talking to CSO’s — their frustration with the hype, equivocation, and machine learning marketing charlatans is palpable.