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Cato Networks recently announced that it was named as a “Leader” and “Outperformer” by GigaOm in the analyst firm’s Radar Report for Secure Service Access (SSA), GigaOm’s term for SASE/SSE. The report’s comprehensive review evaluates the degree to which suppliers converge security and networking into a single, global platform. Cato is only SASE provider to be ranked an SSA “Leader” and an “Outperformer” with perfect delivery of SD-WAN as well as the core network-based security capabilities – Firewall as a Service (FWaaS), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), and Zero-Trust Network Access (ZTNA).

“Since publishing the 2021 Radar for Service Access Solutions [GigaOm’s prior term for SSA], Cato Networks has moved from being a Challenger to a Leader and an Outperformer due to its innovation and execution against its roadmap,” writes GigaOm analyst and report author, Ivan McPhee.

“In the world of networking and securing the enterprise, the platform is critical. It’s the convergence of capabilities into a global platform that allows for the radical simplicity and operational efficiency promised by SASE and SSA. GigaOm’s thorough research underscore this architectural prerequisite and we’re honored to be named a Leader and Outperformer in the SSA Radar Report,” says Yishay Yovel, Chief Marketing Officer at Cato Networks.

Cato Networks: The Prototypical SASE/SSA Platform

The report found Cato SASE Cloud to be one of the few SSA platforms capable of addressing the networking and security needs for large enterprises, MSPs, and SMEs.

The Cato SASE Cloud provides outstanding enterprise-grade network performance and predictability worldwide by connecting sites, remote users, and cloud resources across the optimized Cato Global Private Backbone. Once connected, the Cato SSE 360 pillar of Cato SASE Cloud enforces granular corporate access policies on all applications — on-premises and in the cloud – and across all ports and protocols, protecting users against threats, and preventing sensitive data loss.

Of GigaOm’s key SSA Criteria, the Cato SASE Cloud was the only Leader to be ranked Exceptional in seven of eight categories:

  • Defense in Depth
  • Identity-Based Access
  • Dynamic Segmentation
  • Unified Threat Management
  • ML-Powered Security
  • Autonomous Network Security
  • Integrated Solution

And the company found a similarly near-perfect score when it came to the core networking and network-based security capabilities comprising SSA solutions: SD-WAN, FWaaS, SWG, CASB, ZTNA, and NDR.

“Founded in 2015, Cato Networks was one of the first vendors to launch a global cloud-native service converging SD-WAN and security as a service,” says the report. “Developed in-house from the ground up, Cato SASE Cloud connects all enterprise network resources—including branch locations, cloud and physical data centers, and the hybrid workforce—within a secure, cloud-native service. Delivering low latency and predictable performance via a global private backbone”

Delivering a Converged Networking and Security Platform Challenges the Industry

Since SASE’s inception, analysts have pointed to the importance of having one, converged cloud platform connecting and securing the complete enterprise — sites, users, and cloud resources. It’s this radical simplicity that enables the agility, cost savings, visibility, improved security, and operational improvements associated with SASE/SSA.

But the complexity of converging networking and security capabilities to form such a platform has long challenged legacy technology and service providers. As GigaOm notes, “The SSA landscape is becoming increasingly blurred with incumbent vendors repackaging and repositioning legacy products as integrated platforms, acquiring new technologies, or making strategic alliances to fill the gaps in their portfolios.”

Enterprises need not only consider functionality claimed by SSA vendors but the convergence of those capabilities. Says GigaOm, “When talking to vendors, verify the level of integration between individual SSA capabilities. Ensure that their vision is aligned with yours and their roadmap includes the features and integration you need.”

 

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SentinelOne have announced a new integration with Armis, the leading unified asset intelligence platform. The collaboration helps protect organizations from modern threats and provides unified and unparalleled visibility across endpoints, cloud, mobile, IoT, OT devices, and more.

Visibility is essential for security and operations teams, but as networks become more complex, maintaining visibility and reducing the attack surface becomes increasingly challenging. IoT and OT environments present unique complexities, limiting asset visibility and control, particularly in healthcare, manufacturing, and critical infrastructure verticals. These diverse environments introduce new ransomware and malware risks in the context of today’s evolving threat landscape.

“Unmanaged devices present an extremely attractive attack surface for threat actors. Armis provides unparalleled asset intelligence and visibility into both managed and unmanaged devices, allowing customers to rapidly reduce attack surfaces in order to protect their organizations from malicious intruders,” said Ed Barry, VP Strategic Alliances, Armis. “SentinelOne’s autonomous approach to prevention and remediation coupled with Armis’s comprehensive visibility takes attack assessment and mitigation to new levels.”

SentinelOne and Armis jointly deliver three best-of-breed solutions:

  • SentinelOne Singularity XDR app for Armis – provides additional context and enrichment to accelerate the triage and investigation of threats to managed and unmanaged endpoints, IoT, and OT devices.
  • Armis integration for SentinelOne Singularity XDR – offers unified visibility of devices with broad coverage for user endpoints, IoT, and OT devices. It also integrates device health, asset metadata, and application inventory into risk models to improve vulnerability prioritization and remediation.
  • SentinelOne Singularity Ranger app for Armis – delivers network visibility and control with real-time device metadata from Armis. Organizations are enabled to automatically isolate suspicious devices or block user endpoints from communication with IoT and OT devices.

“With every piece of new technology, the challenge of IT orchestration grows, particularly from a security perspective,” said Yonni Shelmerdine, Vice President of Product Management, SentinelOne. “It’s hard enough to keep track of all the devices on the network, let alone what these devices are doing. SentinelOne and Armis are coming together to solve this problem, providing unified solutions that address comprehensive asset visibility and risk reduction.”

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Feedzai has been named Best Transaction Fraud Monitoring and Decisioning Innovation in the Aite-Novarica Group 2022 Fraud Impact Innovation Awards. The award highlights how Feedzai empowers the bank’s data scientists to protect customers from scams and other fraud using a patented algorithm and providing a 360-degree entity view of payment risk. Due to its proficiency in mitigating fraud risk, Feedzai’s patent innovation is helping many financial institutions including Lloyds Banking Group, one of the largest retail banks in the world. 

According to recent reports, financial crime has been on the rise since the COVID-19 pandemic began and large numbers of people have turned online for their banking activities. In the U.S., the impact of identity fraud last year was $52 billion in financial loss, affecting 42 million consumer victims (Javelin Research). In the U.K., authorised push payment scams reached £355 million in the first half of 2021, a year-on-year increase of 70 percent. 

“Today’s fraud scams are increasingly hard to stop by traditional solutions because the transactions involve genuine customers on their actual devices, at their usual IP,” said Pedro Barata, Chief Product Officer Feedzai. “Lloyds Banking Group and Feedzai have pioneered an approach that utilises all available data across multiple channels to make fair fraud risk decisions in milliseconds, based on an individual’s specific details and activities, not one that is dependent on generalised customer groupings.” 

The Feedzai RiskOps Platform has been proven to increase protection for banking customers against scams. The innovation and technical strengths of the solution contributed to the award win, as they provide customers with tangible benefits, including: 

  • Financial crime risk mitigation – Higher detection rates and lower false-positives help protect banks and their customers from the costly and distressing experience of fraud and scams. 
  • Enhanced user experience – reduces friction for good customers and lowers the number of unnecessary contacts with analysts and call centres. 
  • Operational efficiency – Keeps intervention rates low and ensures a less complex system through model-driven as well as rule-driven systems. 

“Organised crime continues to attack financial services firms and consumers, always finding new and clever ways to circumvent their defences. Legacy approaches are less effective at keeping pace with, and adapting to, the escalating threat landscape,” says Chuck Subrt, Fraud & AML Practice Director at Aite-Novarica Group. “Fraud and AML executives recognise the imperative for more innovative tools that can drive meaningful intelligence, smarter decision-making, and better outcomes,” he explains. 

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Armis, the unified asset intelligence platform, has joined the premier industry body for financial services in the UK, UK Finance, to help members tackle cybersecurity challenges stemming from managed or unmanaged connected assets in their environments. As an associate member, Armis says it will use the partnership to drive awareness of financial institutions’ risk exposures and the need for real-time visibility of every connected asset.

The company hopes the partnership will help organisations prioritise immediate risks to improve operational resilience in the face of changing global regulatory requirements.

Armis cites DCMS research figures that show 54% of finance and insurance firms have reported a cyber security breach or attack in the last 12 months, more than the average for businesses overall (39%); therefore, as part of critical national infrastructure, cyber resilience in banking and finance is an increasingly global imperative. Consequently, financial regulators in some geographies are already requesting detailed evidence of end-to-end infrastructure compromise assessments that will allow them to detect previously unseen gaps as well as evidence remediation plans.

“Traditional audit approaches on a ‘representative slice’ of banks’ infrastructure are no longer effective in understanding risk exposure to advanced attacks, which could come from any part of an FI’s infrastructure,” said Peter Doggart, Chief Strategy Officer at Armis. “This presents a unique set of challenges for FIs as they often battle complex hybrid infrastructures with increasing attack surfaces. The growth of cloud and home working, combined with an increasing level of traditionally unmanaged devices – like IoT, AV services, or building entry systems – continue to layer on additional attack vectors.”

The result is financial institutions are suffering from too many disconnected versions of the truth when it comes to an accurate picture of asset inventory in their environments, the company said in a press release. This creates control gaps that impact not only operational efficiency, but also resiliency and attack surface reduction efforts.

Jason Cole, Director of Associate Membership at UK Finance said “We are pleased to welcome Armis into our associate membership, where they will have the opportunity to share their knowledge and insights with our members and make the financial sector safer and inclusive for all.”

Armis provides passive, real-time end-to-end visibility across all managed and unmanaged assets and is well positioned to help global financial institutions due to its unique knowledgebase of more than 2 billion assets, enabling FIs to rapidly gain visibility into every asset they have, see it categorised, understand risks, and enable protective actions.

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Outpost24 has announced it has been acquired by Vitruvian Partners to take the company into the next phase of growth. The new ownership structure will enable Outpost24 to invest in its people, processes, and industry-leading technology to further strengthen its leadership position in a large and growing market. Vitruvian has acquired a majority ownership position in the Company, with management and key employees remaining significant minority shareholders.

With over 2,500 customers in more than [65] countries, Outpost24’s full stack cyber risk management SaaS platform empowers businesses to address the rapidly rising need to improve their cybersecurity posture. Outpost24’s comprehensive set of solutions scan both internal assets and external data sources to discover, assess and prioritise vulnerabilities and threats across potential attack surfaces. It offers industry leading, best-of-breed, cyber risk management solutions in vulnerability management, application security, threat intelligence and access management – in a single platform that is easy-to-use and deploy.

Underpinned by the growing awareness of the mission criticality of cybersecurity, Outpost24 has demonstrated strong long-term organic growth and profitability – quickly developing into one of the most well renowned cyber risk management platforms worldwide. Outpost24 today has a global presence with offices across Europe and the US, with further plans to continue to invest in international expansion during the coming years.

Vitruvian has previously invested in several successful cybersecurity companies including most recently Bitdefender, CFC, and Darktrace as well as numerous Nordic champions that have become international success stories, including Benify, CRF Health, EasyPark, Just Eat, Scrive and Unifaun. Vitruvian is an international investment firm with more than 100 professionals across eight countries and three continents with a focus on market-leading high-growth companies.

“Our vision has always been to make businesses resilient to cybersecurity risk,” said Karl Thedéen, CEO at Outpost24. “Through our partnership with Vitruvian we will have increased opportunities to empower security and business leaders to identify cyber threats and secure their organizations with speed and confidence. The new investment will bolster our ambition to become a global cybersecurity champion by accelerating our product roadmap and increasing our sales and marketing efforts.”

Jussi Wuoristo, Partner at Vitruvian Partners, added: “As the frequency and cost of cyber attacks is quickly increasing, Outpost24 has developed an unrivalled full stack cyber risk management platform that creates tremendous value for businesses around the world. Vitruvian has backed several exceptional global leaders in cybersecurity and we are excited to partner with the team at Outpost24 to help accelerate the company’s international expansion and product innovation.”

Martin Henricson at Monterro, added: “Seeing what we’ve achieved together to help multinational businesses reduce security exposure and prevent cyberattacks has been rewarding. We are extremely proud of the market position and product innovations Outpost24 has accomplished under our ownership and we look forward to seeing continued success for the company as part of Vitruvian.”

 

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Salt Security, the leading API security company, today announced that Berkshire Bank, a leading socially responsible community bank with office locations in New England and New York, has selected the Salt Security API Protection Platform to secure its growing ecosystem of APIs. The Salt platform enables Berkshire Bank to reduce business risk by shielding itself, its partners, and its customers from rising API-based cybersecurity threats, while augmenting the company’s zero trust security model.    

Berkshire Bank joins a growing number of financial services institutions that have chosen Salt Security to secure their and their customers’ critical data, including Ally Bank, Apiture, City National Bank, and Finastra, among others. 

“As a business enabler that supports multiple Fintech partnerships, Berkshire Bank wants to bring innovative and convenient financial offerings to market as quickly as possible. However, we will never do so at the expense of our customers’ security,” said Ryan Melle, SVP, Chief Information Security Officer, Berkshire Bank.

“Salt Security makes it easy for us to mitigate the risk of API-based exposure when storing and sharing information online about our customers’ financial data. We looked at other solutions but only Salt had the full range of capabilities we wanted – complete API visibility, protection across build and runtime, and seamless integration into every facet of our API ecosystem.”  

Digital transformation, mobilisation, cloud migration, and application modernisation represent the new technology frontier for financial services, and APIs are the delivery vehicle to get there. 

However, APIs have also become the number one attack vector for applications today. According to the Salt Security State of API Report, Q1 2022, API attacks rose 681% in 2021, compared to a 321% increase in overall API traffic during the same period.  

“Berkshire Bank, like many of our customers, has begun to rely more heavily on APIs to drive and support new digital business initiatives,” said Roey Eliyahu, co-founder and CEO, Salt Security.

“Bad actors have also zeroed-in on the valuable information that APIs hold. The industry has quickly realised that today’s solutions, such as web application firewalls (WAFs) and API gateways, fail to defend against API threats. Even solutions supposedly designed for API security lack the context needed to identify API attacks in the wild. Only Salt applies cloud-scale big data to the challenge, providing the context needed to identify API attacks, which often unfold over days, weeks, and even months.” 

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SafeBreach, the pioneer in breach and attack simulation (BAS), today announced the launch of their EMEA programme, which will aim to bring their dynamic continuous security validation platform to an EMEA audience. The SafeBreach platform enables security teams to assess the efficacy of their security ecosystem by safely executing attacks across the entire cyber kill chain to validate and optimise security controls, prioritise remediation efforts and mitigate critical gaps before a breach occurs. As a result, organisations gain visibility across siloed security solutions to reveal their actual risk and promote cross-functional mitigation efficiency.

According to Gartner, “when CISOs include BAS as a part of their regular security assessments, they can help their teams identify gaps in their security posture more effectively and prioritise security initiatives more efficiently.” With the dramatic growth of the threat landscape, severely understaffed security teams and the constant march of digital transformation, BAS provides the empirical tool security practitioners need to validate their controls and gain visibility into their performance to reduce risk in this unprecedented environment. However, BAS tools remain critically underused in the EMEA market, leaving many security teams playing catch-up. 

SafeBreach plans to change that with its expansion into EMEA, a move that will not only give organisations in the region access to the pioneering platform, but also to the most robust partner ecosystem on the market. Organisations will be able to leverage the expertise of SafeBreach partners such as Service Now, Microsoft and IBM as they seek to shift their security strategy from defence to offence.

“We’re thrilled to expand our presence in the EMEA market and increase the availability of our widely used continuous security validation platform,” said Guy Bejerano, co-founder and CEO of SafeBreach. “Many organisations have responded to the current geopolitical landscape by buying more security products and hoping that will make them more secure. But hope is not a viable strategy. Right now, enterprises need stability and to ensure they can make the most with what they have. SafeBreach provides a holistic view of an organisation’s security posture, so they can take a data-driven approach to reduce risk using the security technologies they already have in place.”

To support their move into EMEA, SafeBreach has hired Manish Patel as VP of international sales. The appointment leverages Safebreach’s recent Series D funding round, new senior-level hires and strong 2021 performance to further drive customer adoption internationally. Manish will oversee growth in both the EMEA and APAC regions. His responsibilities will include developing SafeBreach’s go-to-market efforts, expanding relationships with enterprise customers and working with a dynamic EMEA team, including Brooke Pietsch, Saul Williams, Robin Stehlik, Yafit Shaoul, Tomer Erez, Stewart Keith Steven and Robert Peter Neal. Manish brings more than 20 years of experience in building and growing businesses. Most recently, he served as sales director, EMEA for Dataminr. Prior to Dataminr, he held leadership positions at Juniper Networks. 

“Until now, CISOs struggled to confidently answer how secure their organisations were to the ever-increasing number of cyber attacks and vulnerabilities,” said Patel. “Safebreach solves that problem, giving enterprises greater visibility into how their security controls are performing against these new emerging threats.”

To learn more about SafeBreach’s EMEA launch and BAS platform, visit them at this year’s Infosecurity Europe (June 21st to 23rd) on stand Q25 or visit https://www.safebreach.com/

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bp Launchpad, the in-house business accelerator for bp, has selected Salt Security as its technology solution for API security. 

The business accelerator aims to strengthen energy resilience by aiding in the growth of global startup companies within the renewable energy sector. The companies involved are digitally-led and help deliver cleaner, more affordable, and reliable energy.

bp Launchpad supports its associates by sharing its expertise, including in building technology infrastructure, across multiple business functions. Technology solutions are provided in an attempt to bolster capabilities and drive growth.

Tom Salmon, Head of Cyber for bp Launchpad, recognised immediately the importance of API security for their startup companies. These digital business are all dependent on APIs as the foundation for their applications and services.

“If an attacker exploits a Broken Object-Level Authorization (BOLA) flaw to manipulate API requests and alters an energy device, if they make a change to an asset that they shouldn’t have access to, that has real human impact – physical, real-world impact – and that’s our biggest concern,” Salmon said.

BOLA flaws occur when API calls include an identifier of a resource and the API grants access to that resource without checking caller permissions.

Tom and bp Launchpad recognise the risks inherent with APIs: 

“We work alongside several digital companies going through a transformation to utilising hardware and other physical tech. The connectivity and data sharing core to their business requires data to pass through a central control, which poses a huge threat. If an attacker were to breach the central control they could cause significant disruption to business function.”

Companies are increasingly recognising that dedicated API security is critical to securing platform services. Gartner reinforced this last year when, for the first time, it added a separate pillar for API discovery and protection to its security reference architecture.

As the API attack surface expands, companies need more context to provide adequate protection. Tom believes that security teams have an obligation to provide solutions that reduce risk without complicating processes or slowing down business processes. Security is responsible for giving cross-functional teams the answers and dedicated solutions that make it easy to deploy and detect the growing number of APIs.

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Yesterday, Synopsys, Inc. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire WhiteHat Security, a leading provider of application security Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). The addition of WhiteHat Security will provide Synopsys with significant SaaS capabilities and market-segment-leading dynamic application security testing (DAST) technology to strengthen what is considered one of the industry’s broadest application security testing portfolio. Synopsys and WhiteHat Security, which was acquired by NTT Security Corporation in 2019, share a vision for delivering SaaS-based security testing solutions and building security into the software development lifecycle.

Under the terms of the transaction, Synopsys will pay approximately $330 million in cash. The transaction is subject to regulatory review and customary closing conditions and is expected to close in Synopsys’ fiscal Q3 2022. Based on its preliminary review, Synopsys currently expects the acquisition to be roughly neutral to FY2022 non-GAAP earnings per share.

“WhiteHat Security helped pioneer SaaS delivery of application security testing and brings powerful technology and expertise into our application security portfolio,” said Jason Schmitt, general manager of the Synopsys Software Integrity Group. “WhiteHat Security’s DAST capabilities complement our strengths in static analysis, interactive analysis and software composition analysis, while their expertise in SaaS will accelerate our security testing SaaS capabilities. We are excited about the value this will create for our customers and welcome the WhiteHat Security team as they join us in our mission to build trust in the software that businesses depend on.”

“We’re thrilled to join forces with Synopsys in the next phase of our journey,” said Craig Hinkley, chief executive officer of WhiteHat Security. “The combination of our respective strengths and our shared vision for the future of application security presents exciting opportunities for our customers and the broader market. We look forward to continuing to serve the loyal customers that have trusted WhiteHat Security for nearly 20 years and expanding our footprint as part of the larger Synopsys portfolio.”

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One Identity, a leader in unified identity security, announced yesterday that its One Identity Partner Circle Program had achieved exceptional results during the recently ended fiscal year as evidenced by 80% of global company sales linked to the channel (fiscal year 2022 ended January 31). Other milestones include the addition of more than 600 new partners driven by the recent acquisition of OneLogin and the growth of new partner resources and training classes.

For many organizations, the ever-evolving cybersecurity threat landscape has changed priorities and the way they conduct business. Identity security has now become top-of-mind, with 95% of organizations stating that they have challenges managing identities. As business leaders search out ways to protect their assets and combat identity sprawl, One Identity is helping partners through improved training and partner assets.

“Enhanced relationships with our partnerships have yielded increased commitment and rapid channel growth,” said Andrew Clarke, Global Head of Channel and Alliances at One Identity. “Our goal with the program is to really understand our partners’ go-to-market strategy and what they need to increase self-sufficiency. By focusing on first-hand feedback from our partners, we’ve been able to offer new resources and training to increase our channel momentum and help our partners adopt the business development models they need to help customers secure the rapid proliferation of identities.”

The momentum and growth of One Identity’s Partner Circle Program comes on the heels of One Identity’s fifth consecutive year of being recognized with a 5-star rating in CRN’s Partner Program Guide, and Andrew Clarke’s recognition as a 2022 CRN Channel Chief. To learn more about the One Identity Partner Circle program, please visit: https://www.oneidentity.com/partners/.

Combating Identity Sprawl in the Channel  

One Identity also announced new program enhancements to further accelerate channel growth. The One Identity Partner Circle Program is a flexible, multi-tiered program that delivers tools and resources for system integrators, value-added resellers, global alliances and technology alliances, to sell and deploy One Identity’s Unified Identity Security Platform. With a focus on improved partner assets and the overall partner journey via partner business model development, the program has evolved to enable One Identity partners to embrace the wider One Identity portfolio. Program enhancements include:

  • Better orchestration of the partner journey: Based on advisory board feedback and partner survey results, One Identity has introduced new offerings to increase the effectiveness of resources and training based on how partners speak with customers. By leveraging new channels for partner communication – such as News on Demand or One Identity Partner PULSE – One Identity has given partners the relevant news, new product updates and learning opportunities to help them strengthen their pre- and post-sales capabilities.
  • Improved awareness of a cloud-adoption model: With customers’ increasing demand for cloud-based solutions, One Identity introduced new capabilities to align to the needs of service providers – especially the 255 new managed security service providers that joined the program. Through improved training and instruction to provide self-sufficiency on set-up and deployment, partners were able to widen their portfolio to meet customers’ new cloud needs.
  • Expanding Identity and Access Management (IAM) Offerings: The program broadened its IAM capabilities to help partners provide a unified approach to identity security. Following One Identity’s acquisition of OneLogin in October 2021, it offered new accreditations and technical training for OneLogin products, which attracted 155 partners looking to expand their IAM sales capabilities.
  • Recognition of Partner Success: One Identity acknowledged the top-performing partners through Partner of the Year awards including: Accenture/ Avanade (Partner and Service Provider of the Year), Microsoft (Strategic Alliance Partner of the Year), SHI (Solution Provider of the Year), and more.

Leveraging the Program to Grow Strategic Partnerships

The benefits of One Identity’s strengthened offerings can be seen through the expansion of strategic partnerships over the last year, such as the growth of its relationship with Avanade, the leading Microsoft solutions provider. Over the past 21 years, Avanade has had a strong relationship with Quest, One Identity’s parent company. Avanade recently agreed to a multi-year go-to-market agreement with One Identity given the synergies the two entities see among their customers.

“To Avanade, One Identity is more than a partner program; they’re a resource and friend that’s helped us develop a future-first identity management model to help secure our customers and their business,” said Brandon Nolan, Global Digital Identity Lead at Avanade.

 

“At Avanade, protecting the trust of every individual and organization through the power of people and Microsoft is at the heart of everything we do. To deliver on our commitment, it requires market-leading capabilities, deep industry expertise and an end-to-end approach to design and deliver robust security solutions. We look forward to our growing relationship with One Identity to create a secure digital environment for our clients globally,” said Rajiv Sagar, Avanade’s Global Cybersecurity Lead.

A Microsoft expert, Avanade leverages One Identity’s strength in Active Directory and Azure Active Directory-centric identity and digital security to help new and existing customers. The expanded partnership will provide joint engagement and mutual support of sales activities, product training for Avanade’s sales, pre-sales and technical teams and technical services to support its growth of new and existing clients.

 

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