This week Google announced the general availability of their "planet scale" zero trust solution for the corporate environment, called BeyondCorp Enterprise.
BeyondCorp was the internal model Google developed to manage their controlled resources for remote access for employees. The premise was to migrate their trust model - away from the network addressing approach towards a device and identity model, leveraging access aware proxies to control web based access to internal APIs and services.
By Simon Moffatt. Earlier in January, WhatsApp announced it would be making changes to its privacy policy, regarding how data would be shared with its parent company, Facebook. Whilst this change would only impact users outside of the European Union, many users have started to look to more security and privacy focused apps, such as […]
It wouldn’t be January, without the obligatory prediction articles, taking a look at what might and might not happen in the world of each technical vertical – and cyber is no different. Cyber At The Edge Even before Covid-19 reared it’s ugly head, security enforcement, management and access control was heading to the “edge”. Not […]
This article takes a look at funding into the identity and access management vendor space between January and June 2020. The focus is global and the sector definition is quite broad and based on the categories Crunchbase use. Funding decreased by over $130 million between 2019 and 2020 – likely a result of global uncertainty generated by […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]