Cyber hacking repeatedly made the front page in 2016. A number of ambitious startups are attempting to tackle the problem
In 2016 cyber hacking repeatedly made the front page: from the revelation that hackers had stolen personal information associated with half a billion Yahoo accounts, to Donald Trump asking Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s email.
So, was it chance that Alex van Someren set up Europe’s first accelerator focused on cyber security in 2015? “How do I give a non-smug sounding answer?” he laughs. “No of course it wasn’t chance. My co-founders and I have been working in this domain for a long time. I’m not ashamed to say that we successfully anticipated what turned out to be a particularly intense year in the cyber security world.”
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Source: Guardian