Garrett Bekker is a Principal Analyst in the Information Security Practice at 451 Research. He brings a unique and diverse background, having viewed enterprise security from a variety of perspectives over the past 16 years. Garrett spent over 10 years as an equity research analyst at several investment banking firms, including Merrill Lynch, where he was the lead enterprise security analyst, in addition to covering infrastructure software and networking companies.
Garrett has also held sales and marketing roles with early stage enterprise security vendors, and prior to joining 451 Research worked at a boutique investment bank focused on M&A and fundraising for small-to-midsized technology companies. Throughout his career, Garrett has focused on a wide variety of subsectors within enterprise security, and is now focusing primarily on identity and access management (IAM) and data security, with a special interest in applying the former to the cloud, big data and IoT.
Garrett holds a BA in international studies (with honors) from the University at Buffalo, where he was a member of the varsity ice hockey team and learned how to drive a Zamboni. He also completed all coursework for a PhD in economics from the New School University and has completed undergraduate and graduate studies at McGill University and Cambridge University (Queens' College).
Identity and access management has been fertile ground for private equity over the past few years, and the latest PE-driven IAM deal is K1-backed Core Security's acquisition of authentication and IDaaS vendor SecureAuth for an estimated $225m.
The company is one of a growing list of vendors looking to provide an alternative to those pesky usernames and passwords. Targeting both enterprises and financial institutions, its Intelligence Driven Authentication offering is an AI-based authentication platform that can consume a variety of data inputs and serve as a central decision point.
Upstream Security has developed a cloud-based security solution to protect vehicles and fleets from cyberattacks, and to identify fraudulent use of cars in ride-sharing and car rental systems.
The startup has introduced an authentication platform that it claims can deliver strong authentication to any user, device, resource or system without making any changes to client devices or applications or installing an agent or in-line gateway.
PKWARE has updated the transparent encryption capabilities of Smartcrypt with sensitive-data discovery in an effort to help companies be more discriminate about how and where they use encryption; in other words, making Smartcrypt smarter.
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