Garrett Bekker is a principal research analyst at S&P Global Market Intelligence, leading the identity and access management (IAM) vertical within the Information Security channel. Prior to his coverage of IAM and cloud security, Garrett also covered data security and governance, risk and compliance. Within IAM, Garrett’s current research specializations include passwordless authentication, cloud-native authorization, privileged access management and identity threat detection and response. He arrived at S&P Global Market Intelligence through its 2019 acquisition of 451 Research, which he joined in 2014. Garrett has viewed security from a variety of perspectives over the past 25 years. He 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, including Bat Blue (acquired by OPAQ Networks), in sales and marketing roles. Garrett holds a bachelor’s degree in international studies from the University of Buffalo. He has completed all coursework for a doctorate in economics from The New School in New York. He also completed undergraduate studies at McGill University in Montreal, and graduate work at Cambridge University in the UK.
The company has expanded its toolkit via organic development and M&A. SailPoint has added new capabilities for using GenAI for entitlement reviews, securing machine identities and automating privileged tasks, and it recently announced new agentic A1 capabilities.
The identity security startup specializes in attack path management, with a focus on securing high-value, critical assets by mapping every attack path through every misconfiguration in Microsoft AD and eliminating the most critical paths. SpecterOps was founded in 2017 and unveiled its core product, BloodHound Enterprise, in 2021.
As security teams struggle to keep users safe, passwords continue to be a challenge. For years, we have heard the calls to get rid of passwords, with hacking threats forcing users to make them longer and more complex. Is there an end in sight? Is passwordless our future?
The Israel-based target is a security posture management and identity threat, detection and response specialist focused on SaaS platforms. This is CrowdStrike's second SaaS security-related purchase this year following the acquisition of Flow Security in March.
The company's "application security and controls automation" platform is a fusion of identity governance and administration and governance, risk and compliance capabilities that aims to help businesses protect their on-premises and cloud applications, along with the data inside them.
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