It's April Fools' Day, and the prank funding news is already rolling in. We're on the lookout.

Recent corporate and government data breaches have spurred a security tech funding frenzy. Hytrust, a cloud security automation company, just locked down a $25 million Series D round led by Accelerate IT with participation from strategic investors including VMWare, Cisco, Intel, and In-Q-Tel, the venture arm of the CIA. More detail below.

If we look back to June of 2013, when Snowden began leaking documents to the press, the numbers are astonishing -- VCs have since poured $3.9 billion into security tech companies across 680 venture rounds.

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