Wendi Whitmore leads new Unit 42 organization that combines threat intelligence and security consulting offerings

ThreatQuotient announced it has closed $22.5 million in new financing, including a combination of equity and debt financing. The investment syndicate includes New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Adams Street Partners, Escalate Capital, Blu Ventures, Cisco Investments and Gaingels, who took notice of the company’s significant momentum in 2020.

Threat intelligence from the second half of 2020 demonstrates an unprecedented cyber threat landscape where cyber adversaries maximized the constantly expanding attack surface to scale threat efforts around the world.

Security operations teams use the ThreatQ platform to prioritize threat intelligence, quickly deploy threat data to existing sensor grids, and focus workflows to reduce time to detection (TTD) and time to response (TTR).

Threat actors have been increasingly targeting the gaming industry, including by harvesting and selling access credentials into the internal systems of top-tier game companies