{"id":178502,"date":"2026-01-15T04:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T09:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/octopus-ventures-leads-4m-cybersecurity-round\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T04:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T09:30:09","slug":"octopus-ventures-leads-4m-cybersecurity-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/octopus-ventures-leads-4m-cybersecurity-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Octopus Ventures leads \u00a34m cybersecurity round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uktech.news\/cybersecurity\/octopus-ventures-leads-4m-cybersecurity-round-20260115\">Octopus Ventures leads \u00a34m cybersecurity round<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uktech.news\/cybersecurity\/octopus-ventures-leads-4m-cybersecurity-round-20260115\">https:\/\/www.uktech.news\/cybersecurity\/octopus-ventures-leads-4m-cybersecurity-round-20260115<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-15 04:17:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.uktech.news\">www.uktech.news<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author: <a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tLondon-based security startup Cyb3r Operations has secured a $5.4m (\u00a34m) investment round led by Octopus Ventures.<br \/>\nFounded in 2021, Cyb3r Operations was launched to replace fragmented corporate risk management processes. The company\u2019s platform offers oversight of an organisation\u2019s tech stack, providing guidance on risk factors beyond scores and grades.<br \/>\n\u201cOne of the biggest problems in cybersecurity today isn\u2019t just how advanced threat actors are getting. It\u2019s that we\u2019re stumbling over our own processes. Organisations lack basic visibility into where risk actually sits,\u201d said the startup\u2019s founder and chief executive, Vincent Cook.<br \/>\n\u201cExporting vendor lists from CRM or procurement systems and manually uploading them into another siloed tool is no longer good enough.<br \/>\nCook said that organisations are becoming disillusioned with third-party risk managment providers, with many simply providing \u201cmeaningless risk scores and static assessments that don\u2019t reflect how companies actually work\u201d.<br \/>\nHe said: \u201cReal risk sits in relationships, dependencies, employee exposure, and how those things change over time.<br \/>\n\u201cOur mission is to enable organisations the ability to continuously detect, assess, and respond to threats in order to stay ahead.\u201d<br \/>\nThe new funding round, which includes a follow-on investment from existing backer Pi Labs, brings the startup\u2019s total funding to \u00a35m.<br \/>\n\u201cWe invested in Cyb3r Operations because they\u2019re tackling a critical blind spot in cybersecurity: the growing gap between perceived third-party risk and real exposure,\u201d said Octopus Ventures investor Constanza Diaz.<br \/>\n\u201cAs organisations scale their digital ecosystems, risk now flows through suppliers, SaaS tools and hidden dependencies, but most teams are still operating reactively. Cyb3r Operations delivers continuous, contextual visibility across the tech stack, making third-party risk genuinely actionable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Octopus Ventures leads \u00a34m cybersecurity round https:\/\/www.uktech.news\/cybersecurity\/octopus-ventures-leads-4m-cybersecurity-round-20260115 Publish Date: 2026-01-15 04:17:00 Source Domain: www.uktech.news Author:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.uktech.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/shutterstock_2655768299.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-178502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178506,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178502\/revisions\/178506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}