Cybersecurity firm Bishop Fox laid off around 50 employees — or 13% of its workforce — on Tuesday, the company told TechCrunch.
The layoffs come just a few days after the company threw a party at the cybersecurity conference RSA, where the company apparently served branded drinks that it called “cyber soup.” Bishop Fox’s official Twitter account said last week that the company will have “other events in Vegas later this year,” referring to the Black Hat and Def Con security conferences held every year in Las Vegas.
Bishop Fox spokesperson Kevin Kosh said in an email that the company had an event space at RSA “reserved many months in advance and was primarily secured for the purposes of the day-long livestream (mirroring the one we did for DefCon), which was a forum to engage, and share knowledge with the larger comm …
