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).
Identity platform provider Beyond Identity has announced that it will offer its passwordless authentication service for free to any organization looking to deploy passwordless authentication to its customers or employees.
Three implications for IT supply chain security are becoming apparent: Suppliers may have to rethink threat models and take the downstream impact of threats more seriously. They may have to consider what it means to expand security visibility into development. But on the demand side of threat mitigation, there may be promise in the 'wisdom of the crowd.'
After snagging Thales' nCipher HSM business in 2019, Entrust has picked up cloud security pioneer HyTrust. HyTrust adds data encryption, key management and cloud security entitlement management for cloud and virtual workloads in hybrid, multicloud environments.
Remote work at scale compounds an exploding attack surface. Acceleration in third-party cloud and service providers raise new issues for enterprise control. Secure access, an overhaul in security operations, cooperation between cloud pros and security experts, and the impact of ESG are just four themes that could characterize security in 2021 and beyond -- unless a major year-end 2020 incident disrupts everything.
A new year means it's time for our annual look at market trends. But weighing the factors that drive innovation also means recognizing the frustrations that innovation must overcome. We look at five areas of concern based on our research and conversations with enterprise security practitioners and technology providers.
While tracking configurations remains a complex problem, the focus appears to be shifting toward ensuring that access control is done properly. Rapid7's DivvyCloud looks to address this area of interest with a new cloud security module.
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