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Island co-founders Dan Amiga (left) and Mike Fey have extensive backgrounds in cybersecurity and technical innovation. [Photo: Island]
‘Not Just Browsing’: Dallas Cybersecurity Unicorn Island Lands on CNBC’s Disruptor 50
by Quincy Preston | May 19, 2026
The nearly $5 billion startup ranked No. 28 on CNBC’s 2026 list alongside AI giants Anthropic, OpenAI and Databricks—making it the highest-ranked Texas company and the only Dallas-Fort Worth company in this year’s lineup.
by Sandra Engelland |
May 13, 2026
The new C-suite appointees are Lisa Hayashi as chief marketing officer and Bob Kalchthaler as chief financial officer. Both are seasoned tech leaders who help position iCOUNTER for growth, the Dallas-based company said.
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by Sandra Engelland |
Jan 27, 2026
The partnership with Fortra marks "a significant milestone" in LevelBlue's mission to deliver world-class, proactive cybersecurity and secure what’s next for its clients, the companies said—while also representing advancement in Fortra's evolution as a channel-first company focused on empowering resellers, service providers, and distributors to deliver its solutions.
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by David Seeley |
Jan 8, 2026
"For decades, cybersecurity has been a race against ever-more powerful computers," says Amera IoT CTO Tony Valentino. "AmeraKey Encryption fundamentally changes that equation." With its solution in place, the company says, "there is nothing for a hacker to steal."
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LevelBlue Chairman and CEO Robert McCullen. [Photo: LevelBlue]
Dallas-Based LevelBlue To Acquire San Diego-Based Cybersecurity Firm Cybereason and Gain Investors via Deal
by Lance Murray | Oct 14, 2025
As part of the deal, SoftBank Corp., SoftBank Vision Fund 2, and Liberty Strategic Capital, known for investing in disruptive and innovative technology, will become investors in LevelBlue—which was formerly known as AT&T Cybersecurity before its spinout as a standalone business last year.
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 3, 2025
The Frisco-based managed IT and cybersecurity firm promoted its COO to the top role just months after his latest appointment, part of a broader push to scale while preserving its culture and client-first approach.
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by UT Dallas |
Oct 1, 2025
Join experts for The Compliance Conundrum, a panel and networking event hosted by UT Dallas’ Cyber Security Research and Education Institute in partnership with Comcast Business, Rapid7, NBC 5, and Telemundo 39. Space is limited, and registration closes Oct. 3.
sponsored by The University of Texas at Dallas Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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by Lance Murray |
Aug 20, 2025
LevelBlue—formerly known as AT&T Cybersecurity before its spinout as a standalone business last year—said the deal makes it "the world’s largest pure-play" managed security services provider, with the broadest and most comprehensive portfolio of managed security, offensive security, strategic advisory, incident response, and security software.
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Japan-based global cybersecurity leader Trend Micro—whose U.S. HQ is in Irving—is urging AI engineers and IT leaders to heed best practices in developing and deploying secure systems—warning that if they don't, they'll risk exposure to "data theft, poisoning, ransom, and other attacks."
The Last Word: Trend Micro’s Rachel Jin on ‘Thousands of Exposed AI Servers’
by David Seeley | Jul 30, 2025
Japan-based global cybersecurity leader Trend Micro—whose U.S. HQ is in Irving—is urging AI engineers and IT leaders to heed best practices in developing and deploying secure systems—warning that if they don't, they'll risk exposure to "data theft, poisoning, ransom, and other attacks."
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 16, 2025
Backed by SYN Ventures and five years of development, the Dallas-based cybersecurity company is led by threat intelligence pioneer John Watters. iCOUNTER aims to help organizations detect and deflect highly targeted, AI-enabled attacks—before they become “Patient Zero.”
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 9, 2025
Hyperabad, India-based agentic AI firm Covasant—which has a North Texas office in Plano and a U.K. office in London—aims to "directly confront adoption barriers for agentic AI" while delivering "robust, end-to-end enterprise governance solutions" through the newly combined entity, Covasant Technologies.
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 2, 2025
The promotion follows a HQ move in 2024 and two cybersecurity acquisitions this year as McKinney-based Cytracom expands its unified platform for MSPs.
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DataBahn.ai co-founders, left to right: Nanda Santhana, CEO and Nithya Nareshkumar, president [Photos: LinkedIn]
Dallas’ DataBahn.ai Raises $17M Series A ‘To Redefine Enterprise Data Pipelines’
by Lance Murray | Jun 26, 2025
Founded in 2024, DataBahn.ai said it's "setting a new benchmark" for how modern enterprises manage and operationalize telemetry across security, observability, IOT/OT, and AI ecosystems.
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 24, 2025
Trend Micro—whose U.S. HQ is in Irving—said many companies are demanding that their technology vendors remove the burden of "DIY security" by delivering pre-validated and co-engineered security and infrastructure offerings.
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 18, 2025
The acquisition represents "a significant advancement" in Cytracom's Security Risk Management strategy and further aligns with the company's mission to empower MSPs to grow beyond traditional IT services and embrace a more strategic advisory role, the company said.
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 11, 2025
The acquisition represents a significant step in LevelBlue's growth strategy by adding deep cyber and high-tech IP litigation consulting expertise and world-class incident response capabilities to its expanding global portfolio, the company said.
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