Bay Area Tech Wire - Nov. 16

========================================== BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Nov. 16, 2017 ========================================== Sponsored By: Baird - A Global Leader in Technology Banking o Mountain View-Based At-Bay Launches After Raising $6M in Seed Funding o San Francisco-Based Motista Names Michael Mathias as President o Information Technology Job Growth Slows to a Crawl in October o Report: Black Friday Week to See Record Number of Cyberattacks on Retailers > Baird - A Global Leader in Technology Banking o Briefly Noted: TalentWave, Nutanix, Infogain _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --Intellectual Property Services / Patent Applications Drafted --Baird - A Global Technology Investment Banking Full Job, Event, Marketplace and Services Descriptions Below in Classified Ad Section Post Job/Event/Marketplace ad at: http://www.bayareatechwire.com _____________________________________________ o Mountain View-Based At-Bay Launches After Raising $6M in Seed Funding Mountain View, Calif. -- At-Bay, a Mountain View-based provider of insurance designed to let companies innovate despite the recurrent threat of cyber risk, said on Thursday it has launched from stealth after raising $6 million in a round of seed funding, led by LightSpeed Venture Partners. Shlomo Kramer and LocalGlobe also took part in the round. The company has partnered with Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co. (HSB) to bring to market a product aimed at defending organizations against cyber risks. "We match deep insights on a company's IT security with financial exposure that cyber attack vectors create, to enable insurance brokers and risk managers to more clearly and accurately assess and manage cyber risk," said founder and CEO Rotem Iram. http://www.at-bay.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171116005430/en/At-Bay-Launches-Stealth-Provide-Cyber-Insurance-Digital _____________________________________________ o San Francisco-Based Motista Names Michael Mathias as President San Francisco -- Motista, a San Francisco-based developer of big data marketing technology designed to help clients activate the emotional connections that predict consumer behavior, has named Michael Mathias as its president. Mathias, most recently the president of Target Data, will be tasked with building the overall company and scaling its go-to-market plan across industry sectors and channels. He also previously served as the managing director of FindLaw, general manager and global strategy executive at Acxiom and executive vice president of agency services at Merkle. http://www.motista.com https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/motista-taps-michael-mathias-to-serve-as-companys-president-300556162.html  _____________________________________________ o Information Technology Job Growth Slows to a Crawl in October Alexandria, Va. -- The growth of U.S. information technology employment continued to slow in October, according to a new report from the TechServe Alliance. The number of tech jobs grew just 0.1% last month to just over 5.3 million, while engineering employment grew 0.1% to just under 2.6 million. "Following a trend that has been in place for some time, the rate of IT job growth fell to its lowest level in years," said Mark Roberts, CEO of the TechServe Alliance. "Given that demand remains strong for IT professionals in high demand skill sets, this ongoing deceleration is attributable to an ever tightening labor supply. The current administration's restrictive immigration policies affecting highly skilled foreign nationals is making the job of finding qualified IT professionals even more difficult." https://www.techservealliance.org/files/November%202017%20Index%20-%20MBR.pdf (PDF) _____________________________________________ o Report: Black Friday Week to See Record Number of Cyberattacks on Retailers San Jose, Calif. -- With online holiday shopping poised to beat in-store purchases for the first time ever this year, Black Friday week is expected to see the largest number of cyber attacks on retailers to date, according to a new report from ThreatMetrix. The company attributed its prediction to the desire of cybercriminals to test credentials stolen in recent well-publicized hacks, as well as a spike in the trading of personal identity data on the dark web. In the past 90 days alone, ThreatMetrix said it has detected 171 million attacks, a 32% increase since the beginning on this year. "Bot activity has significantly intensified in the second half of this year," said Vanita Pandey, the company's vice president of product marketing. "We predict that the top retailers will sustain heightened attacks from bot operators looking to test personal accounts. During the next week, we are expecting approximately 5-8 million daily identity testing attacks." The complete report is available at the link below. https://www.threatmetrix.com/digital-identity-insight/cybercrime-report/q3-2017-cybercrime-report/?utm_source=prweb&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=q3-2017-ccr  _____________________________________________ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| > Baird - A Global Leader in Technology Banking Baird's Global Technology & Services Investment Banking team delivers insightful, value-added services and expertise to middle-market clients across a broad range of sector verticals. We combine deep sector knowledge, an expansive relationship network, and premier M&A and capital-raising capabilities to help companies pursue growth plans or consider strategic alternatives. Access the advantages of Baird's global Technology banking capabilities. 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Lautenbach most recently served as IBM's vice president of industry solutions and strategic business development in North America. She worked at IBM for 23 years. https://www.nutanix.com/company/press-releases/  (Los Gatos, Calif.) Los Gatos-based business and IT consulting firm Infogain on Thursday named Steven Springsteel to its board of directors. Springsteel, the chief financial officer (CFO) of MetricStream, will serve as an independent director. https://www.infogain.com/newsroom/infogain-company-news/  =================================================== Job/Event/Services Listings: =================================================== To Post in Job/Event/Marketplace: http://www.bayareatechwire.com 7,000 Readers: 5 day ad: $120--10 day ad: $175--20 day ad: $300 > Bay Angels - Investors Welcome - Nov. 2 - South Bay Bay Angels is pleased to announce its first of many events in the South Bay. 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