Articles from Veza

Veza, a leading provider of identity and cybersecurity solutions, announced the appointment of David Sakamoto as the Senior Vice President of Global Customer Success. In this role, David will spearhead Veza's global customer success initiatives across both pre-sales and post-sales initiatives, and play a pivotal role in helping customers achieve their business outcomes with a modern and comprehensive approach to identity security. With his extensive experience scaling company-wide customer success strategies, David will be instrumental in optimizing rapid value and outcome delivery with the Veza platform.

Veza, a leader in identity security, is proud to announce the launch of the Veza Identity Partner Program (VIPP), its first global program for resellers and channel partners. Designed to accelerate go-to-market success and foster strategic partnerships, VIPP focuses on empowering select partners, including Value-Added Resellers (VARs), Global System Integrators (GSIs), Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), and Strategic Alliances. Through VIPP, Veza aims to build a partner-driven ecosystem that promotes scalability, innovation, and high-margin partner services while driving the widespread adoption of identity security solutions.

Veza, the leader in identity security, announced the appointment of Tom Barsi as senior vice president of Global Ecosystems and Alliances. In this role, Barsi will lead Veza’s global channel strategy, expanding partnerships with resellers, global systems integrators (SIs), MSSPs, tech alliances, and cloud service providers to accelerate the company’s go-to-market efforts.

Veza, the leader in identity security, announced its inclusion in the Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer (VOC) Report, which provides insights for buyers of technology and services. This marks Veza's first-ever recognition in the report, highlighting the company’s positive impact on customers who recognize its revolutionary approach to addressing modern identity governance and administration (IGA) challenges and emerging identity security use cases with SaaS security, non-human identity security, privilege access monitoring, and data system access intelligence. Despite being the newest market entrant in the report, Veza achieved a 100% 'Willingness to Recommend' score from customers, the only vendor to do so.

Veza, the leader in identity security, has announced the appointment of Kane Lightowler as president and chief operating officer (COO). Bringing extensive experience in cybersecurity and scaling high-growth companies, Lightowler will lead global go-to-market strategy encompassing sales, marketing, customer success, and alliances. In the past year, Veza has tripled its growth, and Lightowler’s expertise will help amplify continued global momentum.

Veza, the leader in Identity Security, today announced the availability of Veza Access Requests product, enabling organizations to reduce the risk of identity-based threats with automated access policy intelligence for application access. Veza Access Requests ensures that users requesting access are automatically provisioned according to the principle of least privilege from day one. For the first-time ever, access requests are now built on the power of permissions – the purest form of access – to help organizations truly embrace identity transformation towards the principle of least privilege.

Veza, the identity security company, announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Veza to its 2024 Stellar Startups list in the Security category. This prestigious list highlights innovative technology vendors whose unique solutions drive growth in the IT channel.

Veza, the identity security company, announces its inclusion in the 2025 Fortune Cyber 60 list, presented by Lightspeed Venture Partners. This prestigious list highlights the fastest-growing private companies in the cybersecurity market. Veza joins the list in the early-growth-stage category, reflecting remarkable impact and growth.

Veza, the identity security company, today announced a partnership with HashiCorp, The Infrastructure Cloud™ company, to deliver an integrated solution for solving modern identity security challenges. Together, the Veza Access Platform and HashiCorp Vault empower joint customers to strengthen their identity security posture by bringing least privilege to the management of secrets and keys.

Veza, the identity security company, today announced the launch of Access AI™, a generative AI-powered solution to maintain the principle of least privilege at enterprise scale. With Access AI, security and identity teams can now use an AI-powered chat-like interface to understand who can take what action on data, prioritize risky or unnecessary access, and remove risky access quickly for both human and machine identities. By bringing the power of generative AI to identity security in the enterprise, Veza makes it possible to prevent, detect, and respond to identity-related issues before they turn into disruptive incidents like breaches or ransomware.

Veza, the identity security company, today announced it has been named to Rising in Cyber 2024, an independent list launched by Notable Capital to recognize the most promising cybersecurity companies in the eyes of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), venture capital investors, and other security leaders.

Veza, the identity security company, today unveiled its inaugural State of Access report, a detailed analysis that assesses the current state of access permissions across hundreds of organizations. This first-of-its-kind report establishes benchmarks for IT, security, and identity professionals to better understand their own identity security posture and areas to consider for reducing the risk of breaches.

Veza, the identity security company, today announced that Digital River, a global commerce enabler directly connecting brands and buyers, has selected Veza’s Access Platform to replace a legacy Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) product. This strategic decision underscores Digital River’s commitment to modernizing its infrastructure for identity security, as Veza will help automate all lifecycle access changes with one unified solution.

Veza, the Identity Security company, today announced the appointment of Mike Towers as Chief Security & Trust Officer. In this role, Towers will spearhead Veza’s cybersecurity and data protection strategy, lead Veza’s Advisory Board, evolve Veza’s product and platform capabilities, and showcase to customers the unique value of Veza’s industry-leading Access Control Platform.

Veza, the identity security company, today announced an integration with Google Drive, the popular file storage and synchronization service. With this integration, Veza customers can now secure access to files like docs and spreadsheets that are stored in Google Drive. With this announcement, Veza has reached a milestone of 200 integrations, providing Intelligent Access across the enterprise with the industry’s most comprehensive coverage.

Veza, the identity security company, today announced the launch of an integration between the Veza Access Control Platform and the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform. The integration brings risk scores and severities generated by CrowdStrike Falcon Identity Threat Protection, a module of the Falcon platform which detects and stops identity driven breaches in real-time, into Veza, to quickly identify, manage, and restrict access to critical applications, systems and data in the event of an identity-based threat.

Today Veza, the identity security company, announced the launch of its Next-Gen IGA (Identity Governance and Administration) solution. The solution comprises the Veza Access Control Platform and new products for provisioning and deprovisioning, access reviews, access visibility, and access intelligence. By approaching governance with a focus on permissions and automation, Next-Gen IGA reduces identity risks, decreases the costs of governance, and accelerates access to apps and data anywhere.

Veza, the identity security company, today announced that Capital One Ventures and ServiceNow Ventures have made strategic investments in Veza, bringing the company’s total financing to $125 million. The capital will be used to accelerate Veza’s product development, develop integrations for enterprise systems, and increase go-to-market capacity as it continues to meet demand for its enterprise identity security platform.

Veza, the identity security company, today announced the appointment of Phil Venables to its Board of Directors. Venables joins Veza’s Board at a pivotal moment for the company as it takes on traditional, legacy identity solutions with a revolutionary architecture and authorization based approach to modernize the identity industry.

Veza, the identity security company, today announced that City of Las Vegas has deployed Veza to secure access to sensitive data and critical infrastructure as it moves from a centralized, legacy infrastructure to a hybrid, multi-cloud environment. As new access points emerge with City of Las Vegas’s migration to the cloud, Veza enables the organization to modernize identity access governance and adhere to the principle of Least Privilege across the enterprise.

Veza, the identity security company, today announced support for 100 integrations across cloud providers, SaaS apps, data systems, and custom and on-premise applications, to accelerate deployment of modern identity security in the enterprise. The milestone underscores Veza’s scalable approach to extending its Veza Authorization Platform across apps, data systems, and cloud infrastructure.

Veza, the identity security company, today announced that it has been named a winner in the IAM category of the global Cloud Security Awards 2023. The inaugural Cloud Security Awards program introduced a wide range of categories that reflect the importance of cloud security measures in today's ever-evolving digital landscape.

Veza, the identity security company, announced today that it has received its ISO/IEC 27001 certification, the international standard for information security. ISO 27001 is the most common global standard that requires information security management systems (ISMS) to meet defined requirements.

Veza today announced that the Veza Authorization Platform is now available on the Snowflake Data Cloud. With this integration, joint customers can now manage access permissions and secure their sensitive data at scale. By leveraging the Snowflake Data Cloud, Veza is joining Snowflake in mobilizing the world’s data to help organizations secure access to sensitive data and achieve continuous compliance.

Veza, the authorization platform for data security, today announced Veza for SaaS Apps, a solution to deliver access security and governance across SaaS applications, including Salesforce, JIRA, Coupa, Netsuite, GitHub, Gitlab, Slack, and Bitbucket. The solution allows customers to automate access reviews, find and fix privilege access violations, trim privilege sprawl, and prevent SaaS misconfigurations. With this solution, Veza secures the attack surface associated with SaaS apps while enabling continuous compliance with frameworks like Sarbanes-Oxley, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and GDPR.

Veza, the authorization platform for data security, today announced the appointment of Jason Garoutte as its first Chief Marketing Officer. Garoutte is responsible for building and leading a world-class marketing organization that drives Veza’s continued growth and scale. Garoutte has two decades of marketing and operational leadership experience at companies including Salesforce and Twilio.

Veza, the authorization platform for identity-first security, today announced an integration with GitHub, the software collaboration platform that is home to over 100 million developers and 330 million repositories worldwide. With this integration, Veza customers who use GitHub can now keep company IP out of the hands of threat actors by managing access permissions to the organization’s codebase.

Veza, the identity-first security platform for data, today announced it has been named a 2022 Cool Vendor in the “Cool Vendors™ in Identity-First Security” report by Gartner. This report recognizes Cool Vendors that “demonstrate innovative ways of identifying real-time security risks, remediating identity threats and avoiding system outages.”

Veza today announced that its Open Authorization API (OAA) is now public on GitHub for community collaboration, extending the reach of identity-first security across the enterprise. Developers can now create and share connectors to extend the Veza Authorization Graph to all sensitive data, wherever it lives, including cloud providers, SaaS apps, and custom-built internal apps, accelerating their company’s path to zero trust security.

Veza, the identity-first security platform for data, announced today that its Core Authorization Platform is now available to purchase in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors (ISV) that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Veza has also joined the AWS Partner Network (APN) to deliver secure, scalable and reliable services to organizations operating on AWS and has achieved the AWS Security Competency in the Identity & Access Management category.

Veza, the data security platform built on the power of authorization, today announced it has successfully completed the System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2® Type 2 Examination. Veza worked with the team at Schellman to review and analyze the Veza data security platform, as well as its security controls and processes, and determined that it meets the required criteria.

Veza, the data security platform built on the power of authorization, announces today that the company has entered a partnership with Google Cloud, including product integration that enables Google Cloud customers to harness the capabilities of Veza’s data security platform across their multi-cloud ecosystem.

Veza, the data security platform built on the power of authorization, announced an investment in their Series C funding round from Blackstone Innovations Investments, along with participation from previous investors. To date, Veza has raised a total of $110 million from top-tier investors including Accel, Bain Capital, Ballistic Ventures, GV, Norwest Venture Partners, True Ventures, and others. Blackstone has also selected Veza to help modernize its data security and access governance.

Veza, the data security platform built on the power of authorization, announces it is emerging from stealth today. Veza, which was founded in 2020, is also announcing funding totaling more than $110 million from top-tier venture firms, including Accel, Bain Capital, Ballistic Ventures, GV, Norwest Venture Partners, and True Ventures, as well as angel investments from notable industry leaders, including Kevin Mandia, Founder and CEO, Mandiant; Enrique Salem, former CEO, Symantec and Partner, Bain Capital; Lane Bess, former CEO, Palo Alto Networks; Manoj Apte, former CSO, ZScaler; Joe Montana, Liquid2 Ventures; and, security leaders Niels Provos, Karthik Rangarajan, and many more.