{"id":145862,"date":"2019-06-29T00:05:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T16:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=249084"},"modified":"2019-06-29T00:05:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T16:05:06","slug":"nowsecure-snags-15m-to-boost-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/06\/29\/nowsecure-snags-15m-to-boost-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"NowSecure snags $15M to boost growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tApp security company NowSecure raised $15 million in its latest funding round, money it said will be used to accelerate product development and scale operations.<\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity-focused investment company ForgePoint Capital led the financing and will work with the company on its growth plans, focusing on providing app security testing products for the enterprise market.<\/p>\n<p>NowSecure CEO Alan Snyder said in a statement the company is trying to address a \u201cfundamental, global-scale problem that puts businesses and consumers at direct risk\u201d by helping app developers identify security threats, compliance gaps and privacy problems.<\/p>\n<p>A recent investigation of 250 popular Android apps conducted by the company found more than 70 per cent leaked data that could leave users vulnerable to fraud and identity theft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery business is becoming mobile first, yet millions of people are using apps on a daily basis that have major security and privacy issues,&#8221; Snyder added. &#8220;This is an issue that mobile app developers must address by adhering to basic, secure programming standards and protocols.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NowSecure has raised a total of $27.5 million to date, including $12.5 million from a funding round in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>App security company NowSecure raised $15 million in its latest funding round, money it said &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/apps\/news-apps\/nowsecure-snags-15m-to-boost-growth\/\">NowSecure snags $15M to boost growth<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/06\/29\/nowsecure-snags-15m-to-boost-growth\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2069,2129,2,2047,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,787,786,784,782,783,764,785,403,412,411,395,405,404,778,779,780,781],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-BWC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145865,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145862\/revisions\/145865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}