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Tailgating is a serious vulnerability in any enterprise, with significant physical security and cybersecurity implications. This article explores how technology and security policy can go hand-in-hand to solve both the symptom and the root cause behind tailgating.

Organizations invest heavily in electronic access control systems to let the right people in and keep the wrong people out. However, tailgating and piggybacking incidents chip away at this investment, potentially at great cost including stolen assets (physical and data), physical threats to building occupants and damage to the organization’s reputation.

Tailgating and piggybacking are words often used interchangeably, but there is a nuanced difference between the two. When it comes to tailgating, an authorized person badges in and someone else follows that authorized person through a door (or gate) without the knowledge of the first individual. In other words, the authorized person is not aware that someone has followed them in. Piggybacking is when the authorized individual voluntarily holds the door open for someone else. For the sake of simplicity in this article, we will use the term “tailgating” for both.

Tailgating is one of the biggest physical security risks that security operations teams face. In a recent survey, 48% of respondents said that they had experienced a tailgating violation. In a similar study, a startling 70 percent believed that it was ‘somewhat likely’ to ‘very likely’ a security breach could happen at their own facility as the result of a tailgating incident. In fact, the risk extends to cybersecurity as well; one could easily gain access to corporate computer networks by making an unauthorized entry through tailgating. This could lead to massive breaches like what occurred at NASA JPL. And while it is not discussed as frequently, vehicle tailgating at access-controlled perimeter gates poses a significant threat to a site’s security as well.

Derek Jeter bolstered his business portfolio on Thursday with the launch of Arena Club – a sports card collecting platform that hopes to serve as a “bridge” between the long-lasting sports card collecting hobby and the up-and-coming world of digital sports collectibles.

L.A.-based entrepreneur Brian Lee, who previously co-founded and ran The Honest Company, ShoeDazzle.com and LegalZoom, has launched a new sports card collecting platform that’s likely to make a splash, not least because his co-founder in the endeavor is Baseball Hall of Famer Derek Jeter.

Backed by $9 million in funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Defy.vc and BAM Ventures (also co-founded by Lee), the outfit launched today with a somewhat unique and digitally enabled approach to helping collectors sell, store and verify their sports trading cards.

First, what it’s not is an NFT play (shockingly), though you could see a future where digital trading cards are on the table, so to speak. Instead the pair are looking to bridge the physical and digital worlds of sports collecting by creating online showrooms where users on the platform can buy, sell, trade and display their cards, while the physical cards are locked in a “state of the art” vault controlled by the company, which is called Arena Club.

Capchase, a provider of non-dilutive capital to recurring income companies, has announced a $125 million Series A investment, led by QED Investors.

Additional investors in the round include early investors Bling Capital, ScifiVC and Caffeinated Capital, along with several Angels.

The new funding follows unprecedented growth since Capchase launched just eight months ago. Capchase has enabled more than 390 million dollars in financing and more than 400 companies already use their platform. The company expects to grow 400% in the next six months.

Apploi, a digital hiring platform for healthcare employers, is partnering with direct care worker career network myCNAjobs.

The partnership expands Apploi’s reach among certified nursing assistants and at-home caregivers. MyCNAjobs represents more than 70 percent of the direct care workforce, according to a Sept. 6 Apploi news release.

“These direct care roles are exactly where our customers are hurting,” said Apploi founder and CEO Adam Lewis. “It’s our job to help healthcare businesses find qualified workers and protect their communities. To do that, we have to start with a hiring process that is simple and engaging, both for those seeking jobs and those doing the recruiting. It’s a privilege to partner with an organization already so closely aligned with Apploi’s mission to bring healthcare to the most vulnerable.”

Triller, a video-sharing social network service, has raised $200 million in financing as it eyes an initial public offering (IPO) of $3 billion before the end of this year. In a filing Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company said it has raised debt and equity ahead of the IPO from investors such as Fubon Financial, one of the largest financial institutions in Asia.

An individual with knowledge of the filing said the latest raise was $200 million.

The target IPO valuation is $3 billion, a drop from the $5 billion valuation the company previously targeted for IPO as part of a SPAC merger that was ultimately pulled earlier this year due to market volatility.

The partnership expands HackerOne’s OpenASM initiative and delivers on a shared vision with Darktrace to help organisations secure their digital estate through leading technology and a community of ethical hackers.

HackerOne recognised the need for an ASM partner that could enhance the asset discovery and reconnaissance efforts of HackerOne’s community of hackers. After an extensive technology evaluation, it selected PREVENT/ASM, a set of AI-powered capabilities that perform reconnaissance on a target attack surface simply by knowing the name of an organisation or brand and identifying threats external to that target. The combination of AI and security expertise will deliver continuous insight and help organisations find and eliminate blind spots across their digital landscape before attackers can exploit them. To assure ongoing security improvement, Darktrace and HackerOne will collaborate to train hackers on ASM best practices as they find, enrich, and risk rank assets.

Madison McIlwain, Defy

Before becoming a seed partner at Defy, McIlwain was a product manager for retail giants like Gap and Rent the Runway.

McIlwain told Insider that she sees a desire among consumers to cultivate a meaningful community online. “We see the rise of apps like BeReal, Landing, alongside feature usage such as ‘Close Friends,’ Stories on Instagram, and Snap as reflections of people’s curated authenticity,” McIlwain wrote. “We are excited to look towards platform experiences that empower users and businesses to reach who they want to when they want to.”

Smart training application Perform has raised US$1.2 million in pre-seed funding and signed up US Olympic silver medallist Meb Keflezighi as an advisor as it looks to build out its platform.

The round was led by venture capital firm Defy.vc and included Techstars, the chief product officer of mental health app Calm, and the former chief product officer of Uber.

Perform launched in beta earlier this year and hopes to differentiate itself from other social fitness applications by marrying human coaching elements with intelligent features.

Perform, a San Francisco, CA-based startup that helps runners reach their goals with a personal running coach and smart training app, raised $1.2M in funding.

The round was led by defy.vc, with participation from Techstars, the Chief Product Officer of Calm, the former Chief Product Officer of Uber, the co-founder of Fitbod, and other technology executives.