That optimism was on full display at this year's RSA Conference in San Francisco ' where the cybersecurity gathering turned the city back to its pre-COVID days, with thousands of folks walking the streets of SoMa and packing bars and restaurants. Hope and good vibes from VCs were almost as abundant as drinks. Deals like the giant $32 billion wedding of cloud security unicorn Wiz and Google parent Alphabet and cyber giant Palo Alto Networks' move to start the show made it seems their dreams of actual DPI ' distributed to paid-in capital, or the capital paid to funds' LPs after exits by those funds' portfolio companies ' may come true this year. The numbers somewhat support that idea. A third through the year, 32 VC-backed cyber startups have been purchased. They include cyber risk firm Vulcan Cyber and Oosto, which identifies threats in real time. !function(e,n,i,s){var d="InfogramEmbeds";var...
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