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'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.
Because the vast majority of ransomware attacks leverage Active Directory or Entra ID, it follows that a common goal is protecting and securing AD and other Microsoft identity infrastructure. Cayosoft has spent the last decade pursuing the goal of building a better mousetrap to secure Microsoft's identity stack.
The customer identity and access management veteran began its journey focused on social login and expanded into a full-fledged CIAM platform provider in 2017. Most recently, LoginRadius launched identity orchestration and support for passkeys to accelerate the shift to passwordless authentication.
According to our research, identity threat detection and response is a top choice for preventing privilege escalation. Permiso helps protect enterprises against identity-based attacks with an agentless, SaaS ITDR platform that maps out the relationships between human (and nonhuman) identities and cloud apps to detect impending incidents.
Managing privileged access and ensuring employees have appropriate access rights are the top identity and access management pain points according to 451 Research's recent survey data. Identity security newcomer Oleria directly addresses this challenge, with an offering that connects distinct enterprise identity silos to help deliver a composite view of identity and access risks.
Our third annual identity and access management survey shows that while the industry remains overly reliant on passwords, there are positive signs of change. The gap between passwords and other forms of authentication is narrowing, passwordless authentication is gaining traction, and the vast majority of enterprise applications now support multi-factor authentication.
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