Identity Management and Information Security News for the Week of July 12; Thrive, atNorth, Venafi, and More

Keeping tabs on all the most relevant identity management and information security news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last month, in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy identity management and information security news items.

Identity Management and Information Security News for the Week of July 12

Thrive Acquires The Longleaf Network

Thrive, a global technology outsourcing provider for cybersecurity, Cloud, and IT managed services, has announced the acquisition of The Longleaf Network, a leading North Carolina-based provider. The acquisition comes at a time of continuous growth for Thrive, having completed ten previous acquisitions over the past two years, as well as double-digit organic growth via widespread adoption of their cybersecurity, Cloud, and managed services platform. The company continues to add to their list of offerings, including Thrive Incident Response & Remediation and Dark Web Monitoring, to ensure Thrive delivers the most beneficial solutions to their customers. “The Longleaf Network has a proven track record of bringing customer-first IT strategy and services to clients across North Carolina – a culture that resonated with us from the beginning,” said Rob Stephenson, CEO of Thrive. “The Longleaf partnership will provide us with a strong market presence in a very desirable North Carolina footprint to expand our client base via our NextGen platform.”

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QuSecure Collaborates with NVIDIA’s cuPQC Initiative

QuSecure, Inc., a leader in post-quantum cryptography (PQC), this week announced it has joined NVIDIA and a select group of technology leaders in supporting NVIDIA’s cuPQC, a recently launched pioneering library set to redefine cryptography in the quantum era. NVIDIA’s cuPQC leverages “the unmatched parallelism of NVIDIA GPUs to meet the rigorous demands of next-generation security algorithms, marking a monumental leap in bringing PQC to environments that stand to benefit most from their protection,” including telecommunications, insurance, banking and finance, critical infrastructure, and the public sector– all of which QuSecure currently and actively supports.

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atNorth Achieves ISO45001 Certification for Health & Safety Management System

atNorth, a cybersecurity solutions and services provider, has announced that it has achieved ISO45001 accreditation and extended additional ISO certifications as it strives for continual business improvement. The business has received full ISO45001 certification for its occupational health & safety management system and has extended its ISO14001 certification for its environmental management system to its newer data centers. In addition to this, atNorth has also extended the ISO27001 certification for its information security management system as part of the procurement of Gompute in 2023, aligning these sites with atNorth’s existing ISO certifications. “The success of atNorth’s operations is testament to our commitment to our people. The ISO45001 certification validates our already resilient health and safety standards to ensure the wellbeing of our staff and formalizes the veracity of our processes,” commented Erling Freyr Guðmundsson, COO at atNorth. ​“Our ongoing commitment to improvement across our business enables us to continue to deliver the best possible service to our clients”.

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Aldo Pietropaolo Joins Strata Identity as Field CTO

Strata Identity, an identity management solutions company, this week announced that Aldo Pietropaolo has joined the company as Field CTO. Aldo has over 20 years of experience in the identity industry as an executive, advisor, and solutions engineering leader. He joins Strata from SGNL, where he was director of solutions engineering. “I’ve worked with Aldo several times over the past 25 years. He is one of the sharpest minds in identity management and has the unique ability to understand customer needs as well, and sometimes better than they do,” said Eric Olden, CEO of Strata Identity. “As Field CTO, he will play a central role in helping customers design, architect, and implement customized solutions using Strata’s Maverics for application and identity modernization, as well as identity continuity.” Prior to joining Strata Identity, Aldo was at modern privileged identity management and authorization vendor SGNL, where he was director of solutions engineering. He was co-founder of Good Dog Labs and invented the first identity and access management microservices-based product (Perseus IAM). Good Dog Labs was acquired by Lighthouse Computer Services. Aldo has held senior management roles in identity solutions engineering and architecture with Identropy, PwC, HP, RSA, and Securant.

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Venafi Launches Control Plane Operator; Machine Identity Management for Red Hat OpenShift

This week, Red Hat OpenShift admins can now officially use the newly available Venafi Control Plane Operator to deliver highly automated security controls using dedicated Venafi components to provide policy approval and consistency for certificate issuance inside clusters.  Built using the very popular Operator Framework, a Kubernetes-native approach for managing application deployment and operations, the Venafi Control Plane Operator simplifies the orchestration and improves overall security for machine identities in Kubernetes environments.

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