Garrett Bekker is a Senior 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 role, 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.
Garrett has focused on a wide variety of subsectors within enterprise security during his career, and is now focusing primarily on identity and access management (IAM), cloud security and data security. Garrett is also a member of 451 Research's Center of Excellence for Quantum Technologies.
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).
The recent acquisition of ShoCard may not only give Ping Identity a competitive advantage in CIAM, but also takes the company into new, adjacent markets. At the same time, it will bring along a new set of competitors that the company will need to keep an eye on.
The COVID-19 outbreak is making it abundantly clear that we should have new expectations of what it means to deliver work remotely, which is forcing security teams to rethink how they deliver secure remote access. Ivanti is looking to capitalize on this new dynamic with the acquisitions of MobileIron and Pulse Secure.
The growing popularity of newer remote access architectures based on conditional access concepts gives importance to both endpoint-level details and user-centric analysis. Having built its business on the endpoint side of things, CrowdStrike has now acquired Preempt Security to cover the identity angle.
In recent years, a few dozen startups have emerged to sell software-defined perimeter products. Most of these companies are likely to be bolt-on acquisitions for incumbent vendors, including Odo, which with its sale to Check Point, has now become the latest zero trust provider to be scooped up by a larger security firm.
Over the past 18 months, the two companies have been working to further integrate the various products and assets under their brands. Thales' CipherTrust Data Security Platform combines the Vormetric Data Security Platform with the SafeNet KeySecure offering, as well as new data discovery and classification capabilities, into a single offering.
The company has long been comfortable with engineering challenges on a massive scale. Taking to the virtual stage at at Google Cloud Next '20 OnAir, it highlighted capabilities related to confidential computing, certificates, DDoS and more.
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