Centrify Announces Sole PAM Focus, IDaaS Business to Become Idaptive
Today, identity and access management solution provider Centrify announced it will singularly refocus its business model on privileged access management (PAM) solutions. Centrify cites a desire to redefine legacy PAM approaches as part of its motivation for this decision. Their redefinition of legacy PAM will, in turn, hinge on the idea of zero trust. Zero Trust is designed to prevent privileged credential abuse—one of the top enterprise data breach causes.
Simultaneously, Centrify announced it will be spinning out its IDaaS business into a stand-alone solution provider called Idapative. Idaptive will emphasize single sign-on, multifactor authentication, and user behavior analytics in its solutions.
As a part of this announcement, Centrify announced Co-Founder and current CEO Tom Kemp will transition out of his current role. He will continue to serve in an “active strategic advisory role” according to the vendor’s press release.
On January 1, 2019, Centrify CFO Tim Steinkopf will take on the role of CEO. Danny Kibel, Vice President of Engineering and Operations and Lead Developer of Centrify’s IDaaS solutions, will become CEO of Idaptive on January 1, 2019. Leadership teams for both companies will comprise of existing Centrify executives.
In a statement, Steinkopf said: “As traditional network perimeters dissolve, organizations must discard the old model of ‘trust but verify’ that relied on well-defined boundaries. Zero Trust mandates a ‘never trust, always verify, enforce least privilege’ approach to privileged access, from inside or outside the network. This model, which we call Zero Trust Privilege, will be Centrify’s singular focus, leveraging years of innovation and leadership to secure the ‘keys to the kingdom’ for our customers.”
Steinkopf further added: “The more we looked at our business, the clearer it became that a huge opportunity existed to create two organizations that can each better focus on innovation, accelerate their respective roadmaps, and ensure customer success. Our new relationship with PE firm Thoma Bravo gives us the flexibility to execute this strategy and positions both companies for organic and inorganic growth to strengthen their market positions and offer even better PAM and IDaaS solutions, respectively, to secure the enterprise.”
Centrify was acquired by private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo earlier this year. To learn more about the birth of Idaptive and the privileged access management refocus of Centrify, read their full press release. You can also read Tim Steinkopf’s thoughts on Zero Trust here.
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Ben Canner
Ben Canner is an enterprise technology writer and analyst covering Identity Management, SIEM, Endpoint Protection, and Cybersecurity writ large. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from Clark University in Worcester, MA. He previously worked as a corporate blogger and ghost writer. You can reach him via Twitter and LinkedIn.
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