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 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).
In 2018, the secure access provider came to market with a hybrid software-defined perimeter offering that could be run on-premises, in a private cloud or in the public cloud. Pulse Secure has now introduced a fully cloud-based multi-tenant version of its SDP that replaces the prior one.
Cloud security startup Ermetic has raised a $17m series A round, bringing its total funding to $27m. The round was led by Accel, along with seed investors Glilot Capital Partners, Norwest Venture Partners and Target Global.
Two-thirds of organizations surveyed by 451 Research have reported the need for greater security contributing to the strain on IT, due to COVID-19. Four cybersecurity vendors have coordinated to address both the new demands of working from home, and the long-term reality it portends.
Although PKI has been around for decades, many are scared off by the challenge of managing digital certificates. Upstart Beyond Identity was founded by Silicon Valley royalty Jim Clark and TJ Jermoluk, who have managed to build a PKI-based passwordless identity management platform that abstracts away the complexity of handling and managing digital certificates.
Wandera has spent the bulk of its existence planning to establish itself in the competitive mobility market, and is now looking to leverage its mobile and web security expertise to help stake a claim in the hotly contested market for secure remote access.
The latest release of the vendor's Privileged Access Service includes several new features, the most notable of which is a hybrid architecture designed for customers who want the scalability, flexibility and high availability of a multi-tenant SaaS architecture with the separation and control of an on-premises or private cloud deployment.
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