This week privileged access management vendor CyberArk completed the acquisition of SaaS identity and access player Idaptive. The price was approximately $70 million. What impact will this have on CyberArk’s go to market and potentially the rest of the privileged access management market? CyberArk Key Facts: Founded: 1999 HQ: Greater Boston Area, USA Founders: Alon […]
The Covid-19 pandemic, has had far reaching impacts on global economic performance. Economic output in many countries is down, with many heading towards Q3 recessions. The main stock markets in the US and UK have seen significant downward trends over the last 6-8 weeks: But what impact, has Covid-19 had on public identity, authentication and […]
Amazon provides identity and access management services, under the product name of Cognito. “Amazon Cognito lets you add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your web and mobile apps quickly and easily. Amazon Cognito scales to millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers, such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise […]
As part of the league table series, this article takes an alternative look at some of the top vendors in particular industry segments, such as access management, identity governance and administration, authentication and privileged access management. This league table is constructed with open source material from the National Vulnerability Database, as maintained by the National […]
Beyond Identity came out of relative stealth mode recently, with the announcement of a $30 million series A investment from Koch Technologies and New Enterprise Associates. They are focusing on the age old issue of password management – “Eliminating passwords completely is the only answer – not using stronger passwords, password managers, or adding friction […]
Introduction Consumer Identity Services, are focused upon delivering functions such as the following for users accessing services across the internet: user registration password reset profile personalisation passwordless login multi factor authentication session management adaptive and contextual access privacy & consent management Example services could include on line banking, online retail and sign up access to […]
The following is a high level capabilities matrix for OAuth2. The vendors chosen for comparison, are a selected few, that have well known capabilities within the access management space. For example, some are listed within the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Access Management – typically seen as the largest and most capable providers of access technology. […]
Okta recently released their 10K filing for the 2019 financial year with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The following contains references to that document unless otherwise stated. Introduction Okta is a cloud based identity and access management provider, who went public in April 2017. As per the filing, they describe themselves as: …the leading independent […]
Ping Identity recently filed their SEC 10K for the fiscal year ending December 31st 2019. The below figures and quotes are all taken from the March 2020 filing, unless otherwise stated. Ping is a leading digital identity provider, whose stated mission is to “secure the digital world through Intelligent Identity.” Ping Identity is pioneering Intelligent […]
The world’s most popular websites [1], according to the Alexa website are the following: Site Daily Time on Site (mins:secs) Daily Pageviews per Visitor Google.com 12.23 14.56 YouTube.com 12:19 6.96 Tmall.com 6:46 2.88 Qq.com 3:43 4.02 Baidu.com 7:18 4.40 Facebook.com 17:18 7.83 Sohu.com 3:44 4.61 Login.tmall.com 5:05 1.00 Taobao.com 4:23 3.53 360.cn 3:16 3.90 [1] […]