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).
The company was early to market with a hardware security module-as-a-service offering. Its new KeyNexus Enterprise extends its key management capabilities to on-premises resources with a distributed product that could appeal to larger enterprises operating in hybrid, multi-cloud environments.
Google's recent activity covered a wide swath of its portfolio - Google Cloud Platform, G Suite, Chrome Enterprise and mobile - touching on data protection, identity as a service, expanded monitoring and FedRAMP authorization for GCP. All were centered on a single theme increasingly emphasized by major cloud providers: security.
Security concerns have been a key hurdle for cloud adoption, and encryption has been an obvious choice to ease those fears. With SmartKey, Equinix is looking to use its highly distributed network and proximity to cloud providers to find some white space in the market between native cloud services and those offered by third-party security vendors.
The challenge of encryption is that, at some point, data must be decrypted in order to be used. Startup Enveil believes it has an answer to the encryption-in-use problem. Its ZeroReveal Compute allows searches or analytics to be performed on massive amounts of encrypted data without ever decrypting it.
Stealth startup 1Kosmos is launching its BlockID product with the aim of addressing long-standing problems with identity and its management, including identity proliferation, cumbersome identity verification and the lack of end-user control over identity data.
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