Garrett Bekker is a principal research analyst at 451 Research from S&P Global Energy Horizons, leading the identity and access management (IAM) vertical within the Information Security channel. Within IAM, Garrett’s current research specializations include passwordless authentication, cloud-native authorization, identity governance and administration (IGA), privileged access management (PAM), identity security and non-human identities (NHIs). Prior to his coverage of IAM, Garrett also covered cloud security data security and governance, risk and compliance. He arrived at S&P Global 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.
Agentic AI was front and center, as the world comes to grips with the reality of what agentic capability means, not only to benefit security but also in the many diverse risks it poses — for organizations as well as their cybersecurity product and service providers.
Machine identity security upstart AppviewX has booked its first acquisition, picking up seed-stage agentic AI identity management startup Eos for an undisclosed sum.
Managing privileged access and assuring that personnel have appropriate access are among the top pain points reported by practitioners. Yet fewer than half of all enterprises have deployed privileged access management or identity governance and administration tools purpose-built for these use cases.
An early focus of the identity security space was on thwarting threats against directory services, especially Microsoft Active Directory and its cloud counterpart, Entra ID. Identity security provider Semperis is looking to address this issue with its first deal, reaching for early-stage startup MightyID.
The privileged access management veteran has printed its third deal as a TPG Capital portfolio company with the purchase of cloud-native PAM and just-in-time authorization specialist StrongDM. The overarching goal is to provide centralized access control across both legacy on-premises and modern cloud-based environments.
On the heels of recent acquisitions by SeviceNow (Veza) and Palo Alto Networks (CyberArk), it should come as little surprise that cybersecurity platform giant CrowdStrike has added to its tool chest with the $740 million purchase of identity security startup SGNL.
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