Megan Goodwin is a research analyst for the 451 Research Information Security Channel at S&P Global Market Intelligence. She leads coverage of customer identity and access management, and her background in adversarial tactics supports her coverage in areas such as vulnerability management and attack surface management as well. Megan has an in-depth knowledge of digital forensics tools and tactics and has an understanding in areas where the "dark web" intersects with crime. She has experience working with digital forensics and incident response tools and extracting metadata from confiscated devices. She also has a deep understanding of criminal theory and has acquired a certification in XRY software. Prior to her infosec role, Megan was a data analyst at Pratt & Whitney, contributing to supply chain oversight and management. Megan holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and criminology with a focus on cybercrime from the University of Alabama, a certificate in cybersecurity tactics from Columbia University and a certificate in cybersecurity from Harvard University. In addition, she is pursuing a master’s degree in cybersecurity at Harvard University.
In a recent report, we discussed how identity threat detection and response is a top means of dealing with modern attacks and privilege escalation. Following the introduction of ITDR capabilities earlier this year, Okta has moved to bolster those tools with the acquisition of startup Spera Security.
Risk-based cybersecurity management is a focus for Qualys and its vulnerability management, detection and response strategy. It broke early ground in delivering security technology as SaaS; its recent conference in Florida highlighted the latest developments of its unified platform.
With its recent purchase of rival ForgeRock now complete, the timing appears ripe for a review of Ping's customer identity and access management portfolio. Its PingOne Cloud Platform now encompasses multi-factor authentication, single sign-on, federation, identity verification, digital credentials, authorization, and fraud and threat protection.
The company offers penetration testing as a service and monitoring for large organizations in the financial and healthcare industries. With hiring and retention still a concern in security, NetSPI aims to train novice consultants to ultimately become experts in their security testing.
In a year when the secular economy was challenged on multiple fronts, the market of information security products and services was highly dynamic. M&A may have been quiet elsewhere, but cyber scored its largest deal ever. Transformation was the order of the day across identity and access management, detection and response, the network and the edge, security for the software supply chain and responsibilities for data security. Meanwhile, the universal disruption of generative AI in 2023 culminated in a disruption of one of the field's leading players — a disruption heavily influenced by the question of long-term risk. All these factors will reverberate in trends that will shape the security sector throughout 2024.
The vendor offers a complete identity security-focused customer identity and access management platform that spans authentication, identity management and orchestration, anti-fraud, and identity verification for large enterprises looking to convert "strangers" into "customers."
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