Israel-based Fig Security, which makes tools for companies to monitor their security stack, raised $38M in seed and Series A funding (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/03/fig-security-emerges-from-stealth…
Kristi Noem thanked Donald Trump for her new role as
special envoy for the
“Shield of the Americas”
while acknowledging her ouster as Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary.
Noem said she looks forward to working with secretary of state Marco Rubio and defense secretary Pete Hegseth to
“dismantle cartels”
as part of the president’s initiative that he’ll announce on Saturday.
Instructure reported a data breach on April 30; ShinyHunters added Instructure to its victims list and claims it has 3.65TB of data from ~9K institutions (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)
https://www.securityweek.com/edtech-firm-instructure-discloses-data-breach/
Reclaim Security, which uses AI-driven automation to remediate threat exposures, raised a $20M Series A led by Acrew Capital and a $6M seed (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/03/04/reclaim-se…
Former Trump and Biden AI advisers Dean Ball and Ben Buchanan urge bipartisan action on AI security risks, including tighter export controls and safety audits (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/opinion