Cybersecurity firm RiskSense, which has been at the forefront of diagnosing persistent threats for many years, on Tuesday announced a dashboard to warn companies how much they may be at risk from various kinds of ransomware. The service, available as an update to the company's subscription-based SaaS software, is a visual monitor that shows various data, such as the number of vulnerabilities found across an enterprise's systems. It can be used not only to assess the situation but to plan a sequence of steps to remediate the matter. The dashboard is based on signals coming from typical enterprise security monitors such as those sold by Rapid7. CEO and co-founder Dr. Srinivas Mukkamala told ZDNet the intention at some point is to fold into the product neural network capabilities for additional kinds of analysis such as regression analysis.

Add one more to the growing tally of security funding deals in early 2017. RiskSense, an Albuquerque, NM cyber-risk management company, announced this week that it had raised $14 million in a Series A round of financing. "The funding raised by existing investors Paladin Capital Group, Sun Mountain Capital, EPIC Ventures, and CenturyLink and a new investor Jump Capital will enable RiskSense to expand sales and marketing, enter new markets such as cyber-security insurance, and broaden and accelerate product development," Dr. Srinivas Mukkamala, co-founder and CEO of RiskSense, told eSecurity Planet. Spun off from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and acting as advisors to the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Intelligence Community, RiskSense uses of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, particularly machine learning, to help governments and enterprise organizations identify and prioritize risks to their networks and data. "RiskSense is changing the way organizations detect and manage cyber risk," said Mukkamala.