Technology Giant Microsoft Acquired CloudKnox To Augment Cybersecurity
A technology giant Microsoft has just acquired a cybersecurity firm to improve visibility into access control in the company’s cloud networks.
Stepping Up From Improved Agility to Enhanced Security
The acquisition of CloudKnox intends to boost cloud security, automated remediation, and granular visibility in the IT industry. Microsoft is further looking to implement advanced CloudKnox technologies with its cloud security services, including Azure Defender, Azure Sentinel, and Microsoft 365.
Additionally, the acquisition will also be beneficial for integration with other Azure IoT platforms and service offerings. The CloudKnox acquisition will enhance Microsoft’s security portfolio even better and deliver advanced privileged access management to enable auto-remediation proficiencies and permissions.
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based CloudKnox is a multi-cloud and hybrid cloud permissions management platform that offers Activity-based Authorization solutions. It was founded in 2018 with the aim of transforming the way large enterprises protect their sensitive cloud resources from cyber threats.
When Balaji Parimi, the CEO and founder of CloudKnox Security Inc., was a student, he invented a dynamic data-driven protocol to collect and analyze the human identities and real-time actions across various cloud platforms.
Sectigo, an industry leader in web security, has acquired SiteLock, a provider of advanced web security solutions for the cloud. CloudKnox delivers granular visibility and continuous protection to all the business cloud resources from accidental mishaps and exploitation of high-risk privileges.
Joy Chik, vice president for Microsoft Identity agreed that businesses do not have enough tools to manage multi-cloud entitlements and permissions.
With traditional privileged access management, identity protection and administration, the only thing that remains is to make it work on-premises.
This gap can be filled by providing end-to-end visibility for multi-cloud entitlements as well as permissions to protect users and their crucial resources consistently.
Microsoft Boosting Its Commitment Towards Cybersecurity
Microsoft is making an important acquisition to help companies with security and compliance for their organizations. The Azure Active Directory customers will be able to benefit from the benefits of the CloudKnox acquisition which enables users to have better cloud visibility, advanced monitoring and automated remediation for hybrid as well as multi-cloud permissions.
Microsoft’s new Access Control Suite for Microsoft 365 includes powerful privilege management, advanced identity protection, and entitlement governance, as well as centralized policy management and simplified access policy enforcement.
Machine learning-based, effortless detection of anomalous activity in your organization. With its huge acceleration of cloud adoption, CloudKnox has showed a 7X growth of identities used to access cloud services over the last year.
In this new blog post, the CEO of CloudKnox, Raman Khanna, talks about their latest investor, Dell Technologies Capital.
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Microsoft’s current customers are becoming more and more able to detect complete pictures of cyber attacks to their companies, which is completely prescient with the continuously increasing number of phishing and cyber attacks.
Microsoft is enhancing its security portfolio by acquiring cybersecurity vendors to reduce the risks of data breaches in public cloud environments.