Delinea, a supplier of options that seamlessly prolong Privileged Access Management (PAM), has acquired Authomize, an innovator within the detection and elimination of identity-based threats throughout the cloud.
The steady discovery and visibility capabilities of Authomize, married with Delinea’s industry-leading SaaS options for PAM, will prolong the Delinea Platform’s attain for complete privileged controls within the cloud whereas increasing its position to offer a robust protection towards identity-based assaults equivalent to account takeovers, insider threats, and lateral motion. CIEM and ITDR capabilities might be delivered via the cloud-native Delinea Platform, including depth to its execution of the corporate’s imaginative and prescient to increase PAM throughout the fashionable enterprise. The acquisition of Authomize additionally establishes a Delinea analysis and improvement (R&D) centre in Israel.
Osterman analysis signifies that 80% of enterprises now use a number of clouds, whereas 76% lack full visibility into entry insurance policies and purposes throughout a number of clouds, rising the risk panorama. CIEM extends controls to SaaS purposes and public cloud infrastructure to minimise the chance of overprivileged cloud identities. A June 2022 report by the Identity Defined Security Alliance revealed that 84% of organisations skilled an identity-related breach over the earlier yr, with 96% stating they may have prevented or minimised the breach by implementing identity-focused outcomes. ITDR works throughout all identities to detect threats and mitigate danger with higher visibility and remediation.
“The combination of Delinea and Authomize gives customers the power to detect and mitigate active identity threats across SaaS applications, cloud, and hybrid infrastructure,” mentioned Art Gilliland, CEO at Delinea. “The extension of human and non-human identities beyond the traditional firewall requires continuous visibility into all SaaS applications, their connections to each other, and across hybrid environments. I’m very excited to bring the Authomize team into Delinea, which greatly extends the reach and expands the role of the Delinea Platform to help organizations of all sizes reduce identity-related risk.“
Broaden least privilege in the cloud, detect threats and reduce risks for all identities
Authomize CIEM empowers enterprises to extend least privilege controls into their cloud environments by continuously monitoring access privileges, usage changes, and connections between cloud services, SaaS applications, and IAM solutions. Adding Authomize ITDR will increase protection against threats across all identities by detecting abuse and responding to attacks.
On the Delinea Platform, the enhanced capabilities will identify and address issues such as stale accounts, over-privileged identities, and privilege escalation paths, significantly bolstering cloud security by proactively detecting and mitigating threats while maintaining operational continuity. This approach will most effectively safeguard assets and data while reducing risk, all without introducing complexity.
“This marks an exciting milestone in our mission to greatly enhance identification and mitigation of identity-based risks,” mentioned Phil Calvin, Chief Product Officer at Delinea. “Our joint technologies will harness continuous monitoring and deliver adaptive and broad privilege controls, all within a consolidated cloud-native platform, ensuring awareness and response to protect identities and data.”
Integrating ITDR and CIEM capabilities will prolong the Delinea Platform’s potential to deal with trendy PAM necessities in addition to rising use instances, together with:
- Increase visibility of privilege throughout multi-cloud environments with the continual discovery of all privileged entry
- Continuously monitor and shield all identities to detect threats and mechanically mitigate dangers in any software or service
- Streamline and speed up safety and compliance audits with automated User Access Reviews (UAR) and out-of-the-box insurance policies
“Joining Delinea is a thrilling continuation of our journey of innovation and Authomize’s commitment to detect and eliminate identity-based risks across the cloud,” mentioned Authomize CEO Dotan Bar Noy. “We’re looking forward to establishing the Israeli R&D center expanding Delinea’s presence in the region.”
Authomize CTO Gal Diskin, mentioned: “Together, we will greatly expand and enhance privilege security across the enterprise, addressing the rising identity threats across the industry.”
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