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).
The vendor came to market with an SMPC-based encryption-in-use offering to protect data stored in cloud databases. It has since expanded its portfolio to address a broader variety of data security use cases with new capabilities such as field- and record-level encryption, format-preserving encryption, dynamic data masking and tokenization.
451 Research has announced the recipients of our Firestarter awards for the first quarter of 2020. Firestarter recipients are firms specifically recognized by 451 analysts for innovation and market disruption. The companies being recognized with 451 Firestarter awards this quarter are detailed here.
The target is complementary to Zscaler's software-defined perimeter offering, Private Access, and, in combination with the recently purchased Cloudneeti, should help round out the buyer's zero-trust portfolio. We also think part of Edgewise's appeal to Zscaler could have been in the value of its trained machine learning models.
As data sources proliferate, one of the challenges in data governance is ensuring that the right people access the right things under the right conditions. With different data sources having different capabilities for administering permissions, most organizations struggle with central control of these rights. Data access governance, done correctly, may help people leverage data more easily.
Austin, Texas-based data security startup ALTR has secured a $15m funding round led by angel investor John Stafford III and an undisclosed group of backers that funded its first round. The raise brings ALTR's total funding to $30m, including a $15m A round in 2018.
Privileged account management giant CyberArk has announced its largest-ever acquisition, picking up identity-as-a-service vendor Idaptive in yet another sign that once well-defined identity and access management silos are breaking down.
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