Garrett Bekker is a Principal Research Analyst in the Information Security Channel at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. He has viewed enterprise security from a variety of perspectives over the past 20 years. Garrett started his career in security as an equity research analyst at several investment banking firms, most recently Merrill Lynch, where he covered information security, infrastructure software and networking companies. Garrett has also worked with early stage enterprise security vendors in sales and marketing roles, including Bat Blue (acquired by OPAQ Networks). Prior to joining 451 Research, he also worked at a boutique investment bank focused on M&A and fundraising for small-to-midsized technology companies.
In a tightening funding environment, Boulder, Colo.-based identity orchestration startup Strata Identity has raised a $26 million series B round led by new investor Telstra Ventures, along with existing investors Menlo Ventures and ForgePoint Capital.
The vendor has inked its second deal of 2022 by reaching for onetime deception specialist Illusive. Similar to its peers, the target had recently expanded its focus beyond deception to embrace the nascent identity threat detection and response opportunity.
Identity and access management has gone from being a largely operational function to a critical pillar of a modern security strategy. The 2022 Voice of the Enterprise: Information Security, Identity Management study examines the challenges, usage, growth and adoption hurdles of the current authentication and identity management landscape.
The company's newest addition is a cloud infrastructure entitlement management offering. Cloud Entitlements was designed to help organizations regain control over the excessive permissions for users, applications and resources in the cloud, and can quickly and easily scale well beyond the capabilities of standard on-premises approaches.
Device trust is becoming more commonly used in conjunction with user identification as part of an overall access management approach, particularly in zero-trust strategies. SecureAuth's new offering, Arculix, aims to perform continuous authentication and ongoing risk assessments using AI- and ML-based behavioral modeling, or what it calls "passwordless, continuous authentication."
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