# Veza > The Identity Security Company --- ## Pages - [SEM: SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM)](https://veza.com/sspm/): Secure your SaaS stack with Veza’s SSPM platform. Discover identities, fix misconfigurations, and enforce least privilege access — in near real-time. - [SEM: Privileged Access Assurance](https://veza.com/privileged-access-assurance/): Discover how Veza delivers Privileged Access Assurance with real-time visibility, continuous least privilege enforcement, and audit-ready reporting — far beyond traditional PAM. - [SEM: Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM)](https://veza.com/ciem-cloud-access-governance/): Regain control of cloud access sprawl with Veza’s enterprise-grade CIEM platform. Visualize entitlements, enforce least privilege, and pass audits across AWS, Azure, and GCP. - [Manifesto](https://veza.com/manifesto/): Our mission is to help organizations secure identities by achieving least privilege. We believe: Data is the most valuable asset... - [In-Person Events](https://veza.com/in-person-events/): Where to find Veza Looking for webinars? Where to find Veza Looking for webinars? RSAC 4/28 - 5/1 Moscone Center,... - [SEO: Veza + IdentityIQ](https://veza.com/veza-and-identityiq/): Supercharge IdentityIQ with Veza Get complete visibility of identities, in minutes Integrate apps and systems in minutes, not months See... - [NHI Security](https://veza.com/product/nhi-security/): NHI Security Gain full visibility and control over your Non-Human Identities (NHIs) with Veza. Create a complete inventory of service... - [SEO: Veza + Saviynt](https://veza.com/veza-and-saviynt/): Supercharge Saviynt with Veza Get complete visibility of identities, in minutes Integrate apps and systems in minutes, not months See... - [SEO: Access Graph](https://veza.com/search-access-graph/): Veza's Access Graph For the modern hybrid cloud enterprise, the scale of identity and access has moved beyond what can... - [Bookit-events](https://veza.com/bookit-events/): BookIt Calendar See Veza's Access Control Platform in action Learn how Veza can enable Intelligent Access for all your identities... - [Email Preferences Confirmed](https://veza.com/email-preferences-confirmed/): Veza enables organizations to easily understand, manage and control who can and should take what action on what data. - [Email Preferences](https://veza.com/email-preferences/): Veza enables organizations to easily understand, manage and control who can and should take what action on what data. - [SEO: Access Reviews for SharePoint](https://veza.com/learn-sharepoint-access-reviews/): Access Reviews for SharePoint Automate user access certifications - creating comprehensive campaigns in record time. Certify with confidence by prioritizing... - [SEO: Access Reviews for SharePoint](https://veza.com/search-sharepoint-access-reviews/): Access Reviews for SharePoint Automate user access certifications - creating comprehensive campaigns in record time. Certify with confidence by prioritizing... - [Partners](https://veza.com/partners/): PARTNERs Drive Growth & Secure the Cloud with Veza’s Partner Ecosystem Become a Partner Partner Portal Register A Deal First... - [SEO: Identity Management Software](https://veza.com/learn-identity-management-software/): Identity Management Software Before Veza, it was practically impossible to see the truth of enterprise access. There was no way... - [SEO: Access Reviews](https://veza.com/learn-access-reviews/): Access Reviews Automate user access certifications - creating comprehensive campaigns in record time. Certify with confidence by prioritizing risky access... - [SEO: Access Reviews](https://veza.com/search-access-reviews/): Access Reviews Automate user access certifications - creating comprehensive campaigns in record time. Certify with confidence by prioritizing risky access... - [SEO: non-human-identity-management](https://veza.com/learn-non-human-identity-management/): Non-human identities (NHIs) are the largest and fastest growing part of your identity attack surface, outnumbering human identities by an average of 17 to 1. Hackers can leverage NHIs just as easily as human identities, so your security and compliance strategies must address NHIs as first-class citizens. - [SEO: Access Governance](https://veza.com/learn-access-governance/): Access Governance Before Veza, it was practically impossible to see the truth of enterprise access. There was no way to... - [SEO: SaaS Access Security](https://veza.com/search-saas-access-security/): SaaS Access Security & Governance Veza is the fastest way to secure access to data in SaaS applications, reducing the... - [SEO: Identity Security](https://veza.com/identity-security/): Identity Security Before Veza, it was practically impossible to see the truth of enterprise access. There was no way to... - [SEO: Identity Management Software](https://veza.com/identity-management-software/): Identity Management Software Before Veza, it was practically impossible to see the truth of enterprise access. There was no way... - [SEO: non-human-identity-management](https://veza.com/search-non-human-identity-management/): Non-human identities (NHIs) are the largest and fastest growing part of your identity attack surface, outnumbering human identities by an average of 17 to 1. Hackers can leverage NHIs just as easily as human identities, so your security and compliance strategies must address NHIs as first-class citizens. - [SEO: Access Governance](https://veza.com/access-governance/): Access Governance Before Veza, it was practically impossible to see the truth of enterprise access. There was no way to... - [SEO: Veza + Sailpoint](https://veza.com/veza-and-sailpoint/): Supercharge SailPoint with Veza Get complete visibility of identities, in minutes Integrate apps and systems in minutes, not months See... - [Access Requests](https://veza.com/product/access-requests/): Access Requests Increases user productivity while providing security, visibility, and access management to quickly and accurately provision access across the... - [NHI Summit Registration](https://veza.com/nhi-summit-registration/): Watch the NHI Summit 2024 on-demand! Register to watch on-demand - [NHI Conference: NHI Summit 2024](https://veza.com/nhi-summit-2024/): Speakers Agenda Event Overview NHIs (non-human identities) are hot for a reason. API keys, service accounts, and AI models constitute... - [Veza's Commitment to Trustworthy AI: Enhancing Identity Security While Safeguarding Customer Data](https://veza.com/vezas-commitment-to-trustworthy-ai/): Veza's Commitment to Trustworthy AI: Enhancing Identity Security While Safeguarding Customer Data Mike TowersChief Security & Trust Officer, Veza At... - [Identity Radicals](https://veza.com/identity-radicals/): Identity Radicals Introducing a group of CISOs, CIOs, and technology leaders who share our passion for driving innovation and shaping... - [SEO: State of Access for PAM](https://veza.com/pam_state-of-access/): Evaluating Privileged Access Management Software?  Read this report first. The State of Access Report will tell you how you stack compared to industry... - [SEO: State of Access for IAM](https://veza.com/iam_state-of-access/): Evaluating Identity AccessManagement Software?  Read this report first. The State of Access Report will tell you how you stack compared to industry benchmarks in... - [Non-Human Identity Management](https://veza.com/use-cases/non-human-identity-management/): Non-human identities (NHIs) are the largest and fastest growing part of your identity attack surface, outnumbering human identities by an average of 17 to 1. Hackers can leverage NHIs just as easily as human identities, so your security and compliance strategies must address NHIs as first-class citizens. - [SEO: Why Veza](https://veza.com/why-choose-veza/): Why Veza? The scope, scale, and complexity of access control has skyrocketed, creating new surface area for identity-based cyber threats.... - [Veza Library](https://veza.com/veza-library/): Veza Library Browse our selection of ebooks written by the finest minds and most experienced practitioners in the Identity Security... - [Access AI](https://veza.com/product/access-ai/): Access AI Veza helps organizations strive towards the principle of least privilege, with Generative AI-powered capabilities to help Security &... - [SEO: Snowflake Identity Access Risk Assessment](https://veza.com/snowflake-identity-access-risk-assessment/): Free Identity Access risk assessment for Snowflake Discover your top identity access risks for Snowflake Identity is the weakest link... - [Vulnerability Disclosure Policy](https://veza.com/vulnerability-disclosure-policy/): Vulnerability Disclosure Policy Scope Veza’s Responsible Disclosure Policy applies to Veza’s core platform and its information security infrastructure, and internal... - [SEO: Starbucks Schedule a demo](https://veza.com/starbucks/): Schedule a demo Veza empowers organizations to visualize, manage, and control access across the enterprise. Trusted by Blackstone, Wynn Resorts, and... - [SEO: Non-Human Identity Risk Assessment](https://veza.com/nhi-risk-assessment/): Free non-human identity (NHI) risk assessment Discover your top identity access risks across human & non-human identities Identity is the... - [Trust and Security](https://veza.com/company/trust-and-security/): Why Veza? The scope, scale, and complexity of access control has skyrocketed, creating new surface area for identity-based cyber threats.... - [Why Veza?](https://veza.com/why-veza/): Why Veza? The scope, scale, and complexity of access control has skyrocketed, creating new surface area for identity-based cyber threats.... - [Access Monitoring](https://veza.com/product/activity-monitoring/): Access Monitoring Veza monitors not only who can access, but also who has accessed key resources to identify unnecessary permissions,... - [Careers](https://veza.com/company/careers/): Careers at Veza We're building the future of identity security. Will you join us? See open positions Veza + You Our... - [Glossary](https://veza.com/glossary/): Glossary No results found. No results found. - [SEO: Access Reviews Checklist](https://veza.com/access-reviews-checklist/): The DefinitiveChecklist forUser AccessReviews User access reviews are commonly considered painful. With the rise of cloud and SaaS applications, identities... - [Quotes Master](https://veza.com/quotes-master/): "Veza is looking forward for us. It allows us to understand who, what, where, when, and why. If you can... - [Free trial](https://veza.com/free-trial/): Get started with a free trial today One platform for all your data security needs Try Veza Tell us about... - [Schedule a demo](https://veza.com/schedule-demo/): Schedule a demo See Veza's Access Control Platform in action Learn how Veza can enable Intelligent Access for all your identities... - [Veza Tours](https://veza.com/veza-tours/): See Veza in action - [Data System Access](https://veza.com/use-cases/data-system-access/): Data System Access Your most sensitive data may not be neatly stored away in a SQL table, but spread across... - [Contact Us](https://veza.com/contact-us/): Get in touch with us! Tell us about yourself, and we'll be in touch soon. Talk with support "Veza brought... - [SaaS End User Customer Agreement](https://veza.com/legal/): SaaS End User Customer Agreement Last updated: January 2024 PLEASE READ THIS SAAS END USER AGREEMENT (THE "TERMS") CAREFULLY BEFORE... - [Cloud Access Management](https://veza.com/use-cases/cloud-access-management/): Cloud Access Management Migration to the cloud made access management exponentially harder, with many more identities and resources to manage.... - [Privileged Access Monitoring](https://veza.com/use-cases/privileged-access-monitoring/): Privileged Access Monitoring Don’t let unauthorized users and privileged users slip through the cracks of your IGA or PAM tools.... - [SaaS Access Security](https://veza.com/use-cases/saas-access-security/): SaaS Access Security & Governance Veza is the fastest way to secure access to data in SaaS applications, reducing the... - [About Us](https://veza.com/company/): Veza enables organizations to easily understand, manage and control who can and should take what action on what data. - [Integrations](https://veza.com/integrations/): Integrations Veza connects with all of your identity, cloud infrastructure, apps, and data systems to help you answer the crucial... - [Lifecycle Management](https://veza.com/product/lifecycle-management/): Lifecycle Management Automatically provision and deprovision access throughout a user’s lifecycle Read the data sheet Why use Veza Key Benefits... - [Access Intelligence](https://veza.com/product/access-intelligence/): Access Intelligence Detect privileged users, dormant permissions, policy violations and misconfigurations with Veza’s 500+ pre-built queries. Veza shows you where... - [Access Reviews](https://veza.com/product/access-reviews/): Access Reviews Automate user access certifications - creating comprehensive campaigns in record time. Certify with confidence by prioritizing risky access... - [Customers](https://veza.com/customers/): Revolutionizing identity governance at Blackstone "We're using Veza for access reviews and certifications with more than 700 reviewers. At this... - [Access Search](https://veza.com/product/access-search/): Access Search Visualize and control who has access to data across all enterprise systems. Only Veza reveals granular resource permissions... - [Next-gen IGA](https://veza.com/use-cases/next-gen-iga/): Next-Gen IGA Veza reinvents access reviews and certifications with automation and access intelligence, to help managers make informed decisions. 7x... - [Product](https://veza.com/product/): Veza Access Platform Before Veza, it was practically impossible to see the truth of enterprise access. There was no way... - [Use Cases](https://veza.com/use-cases/): One platform for enterprise-wide access governance Veza's Access Platform unlocks the truth of access permissions, powering security and governance initiatives... - [Press Room](https://veza.com/company/press-room/): Featured News Explore our news No results found. No results found. No results found. No results found. No results found.... - [Virtual Events](https://veza.com/company/virtual-events/): Featured virtual events Watch on-demand No results found. No results found. No results found. No results found. No results found. - [Resources](https://veza.com/resources/): Featured Resources Explore our resources No results found. No results found. No results found. No results found. No results found.... - [Blog](https://veza.com/blog/): Blog Explore our posts No results found. No results found. No results found. No results found. No results found. No... - [Home](https://veza.com/): Veza is the identity security company that enables organizations to understand, manage and control who can and should take what action on what data. - [Privacy Policy](https://veza.com/privacy-policy/): Veza Technologies, Inc. Privacy Policy Last updated: February 22, 2022 Veza Technologies, Inc. inclusive of its subsidiaries, (collectively, “Veza”) is... --- ## Posts - [Identity is Eating Security: Why Access Is the New Perimeter](https://veza.com/blog/identity-is-eating-security-access-is-the-new-perimeter/): Identity is now the control plane for enterprise security. In this blog, Veza CISO Michael Towers explains why attackers don’t need malware—they just need access. Learn why identity is eating security and how to take back control. - [Announcing Veza’s Series D: Securing Identities through Achieving Least Privilege](https://veza.com/blog/veza-announces-series-d-funding-to-accelerate-modern-identity-security/): How do you achieve the principle of least privilege? One access permission at a time. Today, I am thrilled to... - [The Third-Party Access Problem: The Elephant in the Room for Every CISO’s Identity Strategy](https://veza.com/blog/the-third-party-access-problem-the-elephant-in-the-room-for-every-cisos-identity-strategy/): Why legacy access models fail, and how modern identity platforms are redefining third-party risk. As a long-time CISO and before... - [Achieving Least Privilege at Scale: How OPAS Helps Enterprises Reduce Hidden Access Risks](https://veza.com/blog/achieving-least-privilege-opas-hidden-access-risks/): Over-provisioned access is a hidden security risk that attackers exploit. Learn how Veza’s Over Provisioned Access Score (OPAS) helps security teams quantify risk, enforce least privilege, and reduce excessive permissions—without disrupting workflows. - [Least privilege demands that identity goes beyond IAM teams to app, data & security teams](https://veza.com/blog/least-privilege-demands-that-identity-goes-beyond-iam/): In today’s digital landscape, identity has evolved from being a narrowly defined IT problem into a critical, organization-wide priority for... - [When Logging In Is the New Hacking: Nicole Perlroth on the Evolving Cyber Threat Landscape](https://veza.com/blog/identity-radicals-nicole-perlroth-cybersecurity-zero-days/): Journalist Nicole Perlroth joins Veza’s Mike Towers on Identity Radicals to expose how modern cyberattacks bypass firewalls by logging in, not hacking in. Learn why identity is the new perimeter and how enterprises can defend against nation-state threats in today’s evolving cyber landscape. - [Simplifying CMMC 2.0 Compliance: Modern Access Control Strategies for Government Contractors](https://veza.com/blog/cmmc-2-identity-access-governance/): CMMC 2.0 is here. Discover how identity and access governance helps DoD contractors meet Level 2 requirements—across SaaS, cloud, and non-human identities. - [Trust as the Foundation for Agentic AI Architecture: Securing Access to all the AI layers - Models, Infra, AI Applications](https://veza.com/blog/trust-as-the-foundation-for-agentic-ai-architecture-securing-access-to-all-the-ai-layers-models-infra-ai-applications/): Agentic AI is reshaping how applications engage with the world, unlocking the ability to reason, plan, and act autonomously. As... - [How Veza Strengthens SOC 1 Compliance: Common Control Failures & How to Fix Them](https://veza.com/blog/soc-1-compliance-automation-veza/): Struggling with SOC 1 compliance? Learn how Veza automates access governance, enforces SoD, and strengthens audit readiness—just in time for tax season. - [AI Agents in the Enterprise and Their Implications for Identity Security](https://veza.com/blog/ai-agents-in-the-enterprise-and-their-implications-for-identity-security/): Introduction The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI (GenAI) has ushered in a new era of... - [The Treasury Access Incident: Five Critical Lessons for Modern Identity Security](https://veza.com/blog/treasury-access-incident-identity-security-lessons/): The Treasury Department breach reveals the risks of mismanaged access permissions. Learn five critical identity security lessons and how modern platforms like Veza provide real-time visibility, automated risk detection, and dynamic governance to prevent similar incidents. - [Transforming Access Lifecycle Management with Veza’s Access Profiles](https://veza.com/blog/automating-least-privilege-access-with-vezas-access-profiles/): Explore how Veza’s Access Profile Automation streamlines access management and ensures least privilege across systems. Learn how Access Profiles simplify user lifecycle management, improve security, and reduce compliance risks with powerful automation and flexible governance features. - [Effortless Access Governance for Custom Applications with Veza: Boost Access Reviews with Automation](https://veza.com/blog/effortless-access-reviews-custom-apps-veza/): Discover how Veza simplifies access reviews for custom and homegrown applications with seamless integration, automation, and a unified review process. Ensure compliance, reduce manual effort, and streamline workflows with Veza's innovative approach. - [Model Context Protocol (MCP): Implications on identity security and access risks for modern AI-powered apps](https://veza.com/blog/model-context-protocol-mcp-implications-on-identity-security-and-access-risks-for-modern-ai-powered-apps/): AI-powered applications are evolving rapidly, but are your identity security controls keeping up? Learn how Model Context Protocol (MCP) is changing the way AI agents access data—and how to mitigate the identity risks that come with it. - [Reflections from Gartner IAM London: Visibility Leads to Observability](https://veza.com/blog/reflections-from-gartner-iam-london/): Reflections from Gartner IAM London: Why visibility isn’t enough—true security comes from observability. Explore how identity graphs, risk scoring, and access discovery help organizations stay ahead of threats. - [GitHub OAuth Attack Alert: A Developer's Worst Nightmare and How to Prevent It](https://veza.com/blog/github-oauth-attack-alert-a-developers-worst-nightmare-and-how-to-prevent-it/): Learn about the growing threat of OAuth-based attacks on GitHub, how attackers use fake security alerts to compromise your code, and how Veza’s visibility, monitoring, and least privilege enforcement can help protect your repositories from these attacks. - [Achieving DORA Compliance: A Practical Guide for Financial Organizations](https://veza.com/blog/achieving-dora-compliance-a-practical-guide-for-financial-organizations/): Executive Summary The European Union's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), taking effect January 17, 2025, represents a significant shift in... - [From Access Oversights to Audit Excellence: How Veza and Legacy IGA Secure SharePoint Environments](https://veza.com/blog/sharepoint-security-veza-vs-legacy-iga/): Struggling with SharePoint access control and audits? See how Veza’s near real-time security insights compare to Legacy IGA’s compliance-driven approach in real-world scenarios—helping you choose the right solution for your organization. - [How Veza Simplifies SOX Compliance: Automating Access Controls & SoD Monitoring](https://veza.com/blog/how-veza-simplies-sox-compliance-automating-access-controls-sod-monitoring/): Executive Summary SOX compliance remains a challenge even after two decades, with IT-related failures and Segregation of Duties (SoD) issues... - [The Evolution of Identity and Security at Workday: Insights from CISO Josh DeFigueiredo](https://veza.com/blog/the-evolution-of-identity-and-security-at-workday-insights-from-ciso-josh-defigueiredo/): In the latest episode of our podcast, we had the privilege of speaking with Josh DeFigueiredo, the Chief Information Security... - [What is NIST Compliance? Guide & Checklist [2025]](https://veza.com/blog/nist-compliance/): Learn about NIST compliance, its importance, and how to achieve it. This guide covers NIST frameworks, common challenges, and best practices. - [Veza Product Updates - February](https://veza.com/blog/february-product-updates/): Welcome to the monthly Veza product update! Recent releases have included a range of new and enhanced capabilities for access... - [Modern Access Request Processes: Best Practices & What to Avoid in 2025](https://veza.com/blog/access-requests-best-practices/): Learn access request best practices to minimize security risks, prevent data breaches, and manage permissions across your organization. - [Veza Product Updates - January](https://veza.com/blog/veza-product-updates-january/): Welcome to the January product update. Our recent releases have focused on improvements to dashboard functionality, enhanced monitoring capabilities, and... - [Veza Access AI - Applications of Gen AI for Identity Security Use Cases](https://veza.com/blog/veza-access-ai-applications-of-gen-ai-for-identity-security-use-cases/): Introduction Veza has consistently pushed the boundaries of innovation in access and identity security. With the introduction of Access AI,... - [Beyond the Buzzwords: Identity, Zero Trust, and Digital Transformation](https://veza.com/blog/identity-radicals-beyond-the-buzzwords/): In Episode 7 of Veza’s Identity Radicals Podcast, Mike Towers (Chief Security & Trust Officer, Veza) and Sam Curry (Global... - [Guide to Non-Human Identity Security ](https://veza.com/blog/non-human-identity-security/): As organizations lean more on non-human identities (NHIs)–the digital credentials that allow devices, applications, and automated systems to operate independently–securing... - [The Five Tenets of Next-Gen IGA](https://veza.com/blog/the-five-tenets-of-next-gen-iga/): If you work in identity or security, you already know that IGA stands for identity governance and administration. And you... - [10 top privileged access management (PAM) software solutions for 2025](https://veza.com/blog/pam-privileged-access-management-software/): According to The IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2024, there was a 71% increase year over year in the volume... - [Veza Product Updates - December 2024](https://veza.com/blog/veza-product-updates-december-2024/): Welcome to the December product update! Releases this month included significant changes across the platform, including: Access Intelligence: Scheduled report... - [8 Ways AI is Transforming Access Control in 2025](https://veza.com/blog/ai-access-control/): Managing access control is more essential than ever as businesses become increasingly reliant on digital platforms and cloud services to... - [Demonstrating PCI DSS 4.0 Compliance with Veza's Identity Security Platform](https://veza.com/blog/demonstrating-pci-dss-4-0-compliance-with-vezas-identity-security-platform/): Executive Summary As organizations transition to PCI DSS 4. 0, managing access control and demonstrating compliance has become increasingly complex.... - [Complete SailPoint Review & Top Alternatives [2024]](https://veza.com/blog/sailpoint-review-and-alternatives/): Choosing the right identity security platform for your organization can be challenging—especially considering the significant rise in identity-related security incidents.... - [Posture of Access, 3 Pillars of Least Privilege](https://veza.com/blog/identity-radicals-posture-of-access-3-pillars-of-least-privilege/): In the latest Identity Radicals podcast episode, Veza’s Chief Security & Trust Officer, Mike Towers discusses the challenges of achieving... - [Access Request Management: A Complete Guide for 2025](https://veza.com/blog/access-request-management/): Access requests are a daily part of any business, whether it’s employees needing access to tools or systems. But without... - [Introducing Veza Access Requests: Automated, Policy-Driven Access at Scale](https://veza.com/blog/introducing-veza-access-requests-automated-policy-driven-access-at-scale/): Introduction Balancing security and productivity while ensuring employees have the appropriate access to resources is a critical challenge for modern... - [SOX Compliance Checklist: Your Sarbanes-Oxley Guide for 2025](https://veza.com/blog/sox-compliance-checklist/): Protecting organizations’ financial information from cyberattacks, insider threats, and security breaches is becoming increasingly challenging. In 2023 alone, there was... - [Veza Product Updates – November 2024](https://veza.com/blog/veza-product-updates-november-2024/): Welcome to the November product update! Our recent releases have delivered significant enhancements across Veza's product suite, with highlights including:... - [Groundhog day in identity security](https://veza.com/blog/identity-radicals-groundhog-day-in-identity-security/): In the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape, some truths remain constant: managing risk, staying ahead of threats, and adapting to technological and... - [SailPoint vs Saviynt vs Veza [2025 Review]](https://veza.com/blog/sailpoint-vs-saviynt/): SailPoint, Saviynt, and Veza are three prominent players in the identity security space. Each offers solutions for managing and securing... - [Operationalizing Modern Identity Security: A CISO's Perspective on Value Creation and Sustainable Growth](https://veza.com/blog/operationalizing-modern-identity-security-a-cisos-perspective-on-value-creation-and-sustainable-growth/): The past two decades of enterprise security have revealed a consistent pattern: promising technologies often fall short of their full... - [What is Privileged Access Management? [2025 Guide]](https://veza.com/blog/privileged-access-management/): Privileged accounts are everywhere in modern business environments. Privileged access enables organizations to operate within their environment more efficiently by... - [12 Top IGA Software Vendors [2025 Guide]](https://veza.com/blog/iga-software-vendors/): Identity governance and administration (IGA) solutions help organizations oversee human and non-human access using a policy-driven approach to manage and... - [What is lifecycle management in identity security?](https://veza.com/blog/lifecycle-management/): Securing user identities is vital to protect company data and ensure compliance with regulations like SOX, GDPR and PCI DSS.... - [SOC 2 Compliance Requirements [2025]](https://veza.com/blog/soc-2-compliance-requirements/): High-profile data breaches have grown in frequency and severity over the last few years, and in 2023 alone, there were... - [Veza Product Updates - October 2024](https://veza.com/blog/veza-product-updates-october-2024/): This month includes several significant changes, including a refreshed experience for access reviewers, a detailed saved query view, new integration... - [Non-Human Identity Security Risks: Practical Guide to Mitigation](https://veza.com/blog/non-human-identity-security-a-practical-guide-to-mitigating-risk/): In today’s multi-cloud and distributed environments, managing identities is more complex than ever, especially when dealing with non-human identities (NHIs).... - [Identity Lifecycle Management: Beyond Provisioning & Deprovisioning](https://veza.com/blog/going-beyond-provisioning-and-deprovisioning-with-veza-lifecycle-management/): Introduction Managing consistent and correct birthright access throughout an employee's lifecycle is crucial for maintaining an organization’s security posture, compliance... - [Veza Product Updates - September 2024](https://veza.com/blog/veza-product-updates-september-2024/): This month includes several significant changes, including a refreshed experience for access reviewers, a detailed saved query view, new integration... - [Simplifying Security: The Power of Effective Access Control in Cybersecurity](https://veza.com/blog/simplifying-security-the-power-of-effective-access-control-in-cybersecurity/): As we celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month, it's crucial to spotlight one of the most fundamental yet often overcomplicated aspects of... - [Application Risk Scoring: Enhance Identity Security](https://veza.com/blog/risk-scoring-in-identity-security/): Why risk scoring is essential In the past decade, migration to the cloud and the rise of machine identities have... - [Charting a Path for the Future of Identity Security](https://veza.com/blog/charting-a-path-for-the-future-of-identity-security/): In the contemporary business landscape, data, digital, and technological infrastructure have become fundamental pillars of organizational strategy and growth. As... - [Automated Access Revocation & Remediation at Scale](https://veza.com/blog/vezas-automated-access-revocation-and-access-remediation/): With the average enterprise using 371 SaaS applications to conduct day-to-day operations, access is becoming more disparate and difficult to... - [Veza for HashiCorp Vault: Bringing least privilege to Vault and Secrets](https://veza.com/blog/veza-for-hashicorp-vault/): 📰 🚨 Veza for HashiCorp is here ! ! 📰 🚨 HashiCorp Vault stands at the forefront of enterprise secret and key... - [Separation of Duties: Combating Toxic Combinations with SoD Controls](https://veza.com/blog/separation-of-duties-combating-toxic-combinations-with-sod-controls/): In today’s complex organizational landscape, the concept of Separation of Duties (SoD) is more crucial than ever. SoD controls help... - [IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report: AI Security Cost Reduction](https://veza.com/blog/ibm-cost-of-a-data-breach-report-ai-security-cost-reduction-veza/): We’ve come to expect the cost of a data breach to tick up a little each year, sort of like... - [Identity governance in the cloud era](https://veza.com/blog/identity-radicals-identity-governance-in-the-cloud-era/): Identity today looks much different than it used to; in fact, even the nomenclature has changed. The security disciplines that... - [Securing Snowflake: A CISO's Guide to Effective Access Control](https://veza.com/blog/securing-snowflake-a-cisos-guide-to-effective-access-control/): Recent Breaches: A Reminder of Shared Responsibility As Snowflake continues to be rapidly adopted across enterprises, Chief Information Security Officers... - [Veza Product Updates - July 2024](https://veza.com/blog/veza-product-updates-july-2024/): This month includes several significant changes, including a refreshed experience for access reviewers, a detailed saved query view, new integration... - [Identity Security Posture Management](https://veza.com/blog/identity-security-posture-management/): Learn how Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) helps security teams reduce identity risk and enforce least privilege across complex environments. - [Access AI: Introducing the Future of Identity Security](https://veza.com/blog/access-ai-introducing-the-future-of-identity-security-veza/): Introduction At Veza, our mission is to invent the future of identity security. We are dedicated to advancing safety and... - [AI for Identity Security: My Journey, Our Perspective, and Veza’s Strategy](https://veza.com/blog/ai-for-identity-security-my-journey-our-perspective-and-vezas-strategy/): When I left my role leading the product management team at Okta in 2018, I had the unique opportunity to... - [Empowering Business Initiatives with Modern Identity Security](https://veza.com/blog/empowering-business-initiatives-with-modern-identity-security/): In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, organizations across various industries face numerous challenges as they embrace transformative initiatives to stay... - [Where Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and Human Identities Converge: A Comprehensive Approach to Identity Security](https://veza.com/blog/where-non-human-identities-nhis-and-human-identities-converge-a-comprehensive-approach-to-identity-security/): Introduction In the rapidly evolving landscape of enterprise security, the lines between human and non-human identities are increasingly blurred. Traditionally,... - [Veza Product Updates - June 2024](https://veza.com/blog/veza-product-updates-june-2024/): This month includes several significant changes, including a refreshed experience for access reviewers, a detailed saved query view, new integration... - [The MIGHT of Veza](https://veza.com/blog/the-might-of-veza/): We often hear the word “values” tossed around, but in the world of startups, they are far more than buzzwords.... - [Mitigating the UNC3944 Threat: The Power of Modern Identity Security Platforms](https://veza.com/blog/mitigating-the-unc3944-threat-the-power-of-modern-identity-security-platforms/): Introduction A recent threat intelligence report from Mandiant underscores the growing risk posed by the UNC3944 threat group, which targets... - [Join us at Black Hat USA August 3 - 8, 2024](https://veza.com/blog/join-us-at-black-hat-usa-august-3-8-2024/): Join us at Black Hat USA 2024, and discover how Veza’s modern approach to identity access can help you overcome... - [What is SaaS Sprawl?](https://veza.com/blog/what-is-saas-sprawl/): Software as a Service (SaaS) applications provide many benefits to organizations, including enhanced scalability, accessibility, reduced vendor lock-in, and faster... - [Intelligent Access for custom apps: getting started with Veza's Open Authorization API](https://veza.com/blog/intelligent-access-for-custom-apps-getting-started-with-vezas-open-authorization-api/): Where your traditional identity system stops providing access information at the role level, you are often left with fetching the... - [Veza Product Updates - May 2024](https://veza.com/blog/veza-product-updates-may-2024/): This month includes several significant changes, including a refreshed experience for access reviewers, a detailed saved query view, new integration... - [Principle of Least Privilege Explained: Best Practices](https://veza.com/blog/the-principle-of-least-privilege-explained/): A comprehensive guide to the security world’s most sought and least achieved goal. In theory, the principle of least privilege... - [Authentication vs Authorization](https://veza.com/blog/authentication-vs-authorization/): Most modern businesses face the same problem when managing identities and security: striking the right balance between easy and secure... - [Snowflake Roles Best Practices: Steps to Least Privilege](https://veza.com/blog/role-mining-for-snowflake-four-steps-toward-least-privilege/): Practical techniques to restore the principle of least privilege in your Snowflake RBAC, and establish a new set of best... - [The Critical Role of Identity Security in Enabling Zero Trust](https://veza.com/blog/the-critical-role-of-identity-security-in-enabling-zero-trust/): As a seasoned security practitioner and the Chief Security & Trust Officer at Veza, I have witnessed firsthand the challenges... - [Veza Product Updates - April 2024](https://veza.com/blog/veza-product-updates-april-2024/): This month includes several significant changes, including a refreshed experience for access reviewers, a detailed saved query view, new integration... - [Snowflake View Permissions: Who Has Access to What?](https://veza.com/blog/can-you-tell-who-has-access-to-what-in-snowflake/): In the past decade, Snowflake has grown to become the default solution for storing and querying enterprise data. Together, Snowflake’s... - [What is Machine Identity Management? [2024 Guide]](https://veza.com/blog/machine-identity-management/): Machine identities are digital constructs used for machine-to-machine access and authentication. While machines can offer unbeatable automation and seamless operations,... - [Achieving, Demonstrating, and Maintaining PCI DSS Compliance with Veza: A Game-Changer for Financial Services Companies](https://veza.com/blog/achieving-demonstrating-and-maintaining-pci-dss-compliance-with-veza-a-game-changer-for-financial-services-companies/): Financial services companies are under constant pressure to protect their customers' sensitive data and maintain compliance with the Payment Card... - [AWS Guide: Access Governance, Security, Compliance & Roles [2024]](https://veza.com/blog/aws-access-governance-security-compliance-roles/): Master AWS access governance, security, compliance, and roles in our AWS 2024 guide. - [Harnessing the Power of AI: Identity Security as a Key Enabler](https://veza.com/blog/harnessing-the-power-of-ai-identity-security-as-a-key-enabler/): As businesses increasingly harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to drive innovation and competitive advantage, many technology leaders are... - [What is IGA (Identity Governance & Administration)?](https://veza.com/blog/what-is-iga-identity-governance-administration/): Today, many organizations rely on Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) tools to manage their digital identities. In fact, the industry... - [Announcing The State of Access 2024](https://veza.com/blog/announcing-the-state-of-access-2024/): We founded Veza in March 2020, with an insight that in spite of all the identity and security tooling that... - [The Veza Voice - Q1 2025](https://veza.com/blog/veza-voice-q1-2025/): Hello,Welcome to The Veza Voice, our regular newsletter to arm Veza customers with everything you need to be successful with... - [Identity Security Spotlight: Ransomware attack on Ascension](https://veza.com/blog/identity-security-spotlight-ransomware-attack-on-ascension/): https://youtu. be/WgGgw1FXYFs Veza's Chief Security and Trust Officer, Mike Towers, a veteran CISO in the Healthcare and Life Sciences industries,... - [The Imperative for Identity Security: A Call to Action for the Industry](https://veza.com/blog/the-imperative-for-identity-security-a-call-to-action-for-the-industry/): Over the past few weeks, we have seen Microsoft’s digital identity and credential systems scrutinized by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure... - [Veza Product Updates - March 2024](https://veza.com/blog/veza-product-updates-march-2024/): We’re excited to share the latest monthly product update, highlighting major changes highlighting major changes in March'24. In addition to... - [What is non-human identity management](https://veza.com/blog/non-human-identity-management/): Learn everything you need to know about non-human identities (NHIs) with examples and best practices for non-human identity management. - [Identity Security Spotlight: Microsoft CISA Investigation](https://veza.com/blog/identity-security-spotlight-microsoft-cisa-investigation/): https://youtu. be/wfCOzcduxLU? feature=shared Veza Chief Security & Trust Officer Mike Towers, and Chief Strategist Rich Dandliker break down the recent... - [Veza Product Updates - February 2024](https://veza.com/blog/veza-product-updates-february-2024/): We’re excited to present the latest product update for Feb’24. Our engineering, product, and product design teams have worked relentlessly... - [Veza for Crowdstrike: Identify, triage and remediate in minutes](https://veza.com/blog/veza-for-crowdstrike-identify-triage-and-remediate-in-minutes/): Veza makes it easy to find out who can take what action on what data within apps and databases across... - [Complete Snowflake Review: Roles, Security & Access Control](https://veza.com/blog/snowflake-roles-security-access-control/): Explore Snowflake Roles, Security, Access Control, and Privileged Access Management in our complete Snowflake guide for 2024. - [Key Takeaways: FBI Breach Prevention Tips](https://veza.com/blog/key-takeaways-fbi-breach-prevention-tips/): In our recent live event, FBI Tips on Breach Prevention and Response in 2024, FBI Special Agent and Special Assistant... - [What is Identity Security?](https://veza.com/blog/what-is-identity-security/): The importance of Identity Security has never been more pronounced in a world where 86% of breaches are traced back... - [Invisible keyholders: the importance of Non-Human Identity Management](https://veza.com/blog/invisible-keyholders-the-importance-of-non-human-identity-management/): In my journey across the cybersecurity and digital trust landscape, I've always been fascinated by the actors that don't take... - [Veza for Zscaler: Bringing least privilege to ZIA](https://veza.com/blog/veza-for-zscaler/): 80% of cyberattacks rely on identity based techniques - stolen credentials, MFA workarounds, privilege abuse, and access creep. Traditional identity... - [Veza welcomes Mike Towers as Chief Security & Trust Officer](https://veza.com/blog/veza-welcomes-mike-towers-as-chief-security-trust-officer/): https://youtu. be/820CRydTxhU Veza, the Identity Security company, welcomes Mike Towers as Chief Security & Trust Officer. Towers will spearhead Veza’s... - [GitHub access control, access management, security, roles, authorization & more](https://veza.com/blog/github-access-control-access-management-security-roles-authorization-more/): GitHub Privileged Access Management GitHub is the de facto collaboration platform for millions of developers worldwide, facilitating collaboration and innovation... - [Salesforce security, roles, privileged access management, and more](https://veza.com/blog/salesforce-security-roles-privileged-access-management-and-more/): Salesforce access control and management Salesforce is more than just a tool for sales teams–it’s where companies keep some of... - [Join us at RSAC May 6-9, 2024](https://veza.com/blog/join-us-at-rsac/): Traditional identity governance tools have struggled to meet the demands of today’s modern enterprise due to outdated data architectures. In... --- # # Detailed Content ## Pages ### SEM: SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) > Secure your SaaS stack with Veza’s SSPM platform. Discover identities, fix misconfigurations, and enforce least privilege access — in near real-time. - Published: 2025-05-01 - Modified: 2025-05-01 - URL: https://veza.com/sspm/ SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) for the Identity-First Enterprise Secure your SaaS stack by managing identity access, permissions, and misconfigurations — all in real time. Veza delivers enterprise-grade SSPM to help organizations govern who has access to what, and what they can do, across every SaaS application. Schedule a demo What Is SSPM — and Why It Matters Now SSPM (SaaS Security Posture Management) is essential for securing identity and access in the modern SaaS ecosystem. As SaaS usage expands across departments and geographies, the identity risk surface grows with it. Veza’s SSPM solution delivers automated visibility, risk detection, and enforcement to ensure least privilege access across all your critical SaaS applications. Why Enterprises Choose Veza for SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) SSPM Identity Discovery Across SaaSContinuously discover every user, admin, and service account across major SaaS platforms. ‎‎ SSPM Misconfiguration DetectionIdentify risky SaaS settings like lack of MFA, exposed OAuth tokens, and open admin privileges. ‎‎ Least Privilege Enforcement with SSPMAuto-detect and remediate overprivileged identities with role-based context. ‎‎ Integrated SSPM Remediation WorkflowsConnect with IAM, IGA, and ITSM platforms to streamline issue resolution and automate governance. ‎‎ SSPM Audit and Compliance ReportingGenerate real-time, audit-ready reports showing access governance across all SaaS apps. ‎‎ Go Beyond SaaS Monitoring: Complete SSPM with Veza While other tools provide point-in-time monitoring, Veza’s SSPM platform delivers continuous, identity-first access governance. With Veza, you can: 01DiscoverDiscover all identities — human and non-human — in your SaaS ecosystem 02UnderstandUnderstand what actions each identity can perform, not... --- ### SEM: Privileged Access Assurance > Discover how Veza delivers Privileged Access Assurance with real-time visibility, continuous least privilege enforcement, and audit-ready reporting — far beyond traditional PAM. - Published: 2025-05-01 - Modified: 2025-05-01 - URL: https://veza.com/privileged-access-assurance/ Privileged Access Assurance for Today’s Enterprise Protect your most sensitive data with continuous visibility and control over who has privileged access, without slowing down the business. Veza delivers authorization assurance that includes Privileged Access Management (PAM) capabilities but goes far beyond, governing access across all identities, not just privileged users. Schedule a demo Eliminate Blind Spots in Privileged Access Assurance Traditional PAM tools focus on access to systems — Veza focuses on access within them. That means not just knowing who can log in, but understanding who can take what action on what data, and continuously enforcing the right level of access at all times. Why Enterprises Choose Veza for Privileged Access Assurance Near Real-Time Access VisibilityMap and visualize privileged and non-privileged access across apps, data, and infra — with context. ‎‎ Continuous Least Privilege EnforcementApply and enforce least privilege policies across your environment — automatically and at scale. ‎‎ Seamless IntegrationsConnect Veza to your IAM, IGA, ITSM, and cloud stack to enforce policy and monitor access everywhere. ‎‎ Audit-Ready ReportingProvide compliance teams and auditors with clear, real-time proof of access governance. ‎‎ Beyond PAM: A More Complete Approach to Access Governance While Privileged Access Assurance is a critical need, Veza’s platform offers a more comprehensive scope than traditional PAM solutions. By focusing on authorization across all identities and data systems, we help organizations: 01GovernGovern access for all users — human and non-human 02VisualizeVisualize what actions identities can take, not just where they log in 03AutomateAutomate access reviews, attestations, and... --- ### SEM: Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) > Regain control of cloud access sprawl with Veza’s enterprise-grade CIEM platform. Visualize entitlements, enforce least privilege, and pass audits across AWS, Azure, and GCP. - Published: 2025-05-01 - Modified: 2025-05-01 - URL: https://veza.com/ciem-cloud-access-governance/ Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) for Modern Enterprises Regain control over cloud access sprawl. Veza delivers enterprise-grade Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) to help you visualize, manage, and enforce the principle of least privilege across AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid environments — all in near real time. Schedule a demo Why CIEM Is Critical to Identity Security Cloud misconfigurations and over-permissioned identities are the leading cause of modern breaches. CIEM (Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management) solves this by giving you the power to understand and control who can take what action on what resource — not just who can log in. Veza operationalizes CIEM to deliver authorization governance at cloud scale — helping you detect risk, enforce least privilege, and pass audits without chaos. Why CIEM Is Critical to Identity Security Why Enterprises Choose Veza for CIEM Unified Entitlement VisibilityVisualize human and non-human identities across AWS, GCP, Azure, Okta, and more — with full access context. ‎‎ Effective Permissions AnalysisUnderstand the actual actions identities can perform across accounts, roles, and federated access. ‎‎ Risk & Misconfiguration DetectionFlag over-privileged roles, toxic combinations, dormant admin access, and unused entitlements. ‎‎‎ Policy-Based RemediationAutomate least privilege enforcement through integrated IGA and ITSM workflows. ‎‎‎‎‎ Audit-Ready CIEM ReportsDeliver real-time, explainable access reporting for compliance and security stakeholders. ‎‎‎‎ A Roadmap for CIEM with Veza Most organizations start with scattered scripts and ad hoc access reviews. Veza gives you the structure and scale to take CIEM from reactive to resilient: 01DiscoverDiscover – Map every identity, permission, and... --- ### Manifesto - Published: 2025-04-28 - Modified: 2025-05-02 - URL: https://veza.com/manifesto/ Our mission is to help organizations secure identities by achieving least privilege. We believe: Data is the most valuable asset of an organization. Think about all the assets of your tech stack: infrastructure, compute, apps, and the network are increasingly commoditized, bought as on-demand services, and have value because they move, transform, and store data. Data is at the top of the value pyramid of any organization that leverages technology. Data needs to be secured and protected. Over the last 2+ decades, the industry has innovated modern cyber solutions across the network-compute-endpoint stack, but we haven’t cracked the code on the principle of least privilege - the core foundation to securing access to data everywhere. Permissions are the foundation of the principle of least privilege to access data. Understanding and managing the relationships between resources, actions, and identities is a central requirement for Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), Privileged Access Management (PAM), Data Access Governance (DAG), Identity and Access Management (IAM), SaaS Security, NHI Security, and Agentic AI Security. None of the existing identity solutions answers “who can, has, and should take what action on what resource” comprehensively, and we believe that doing this effectively will disrupt and transform the practice of Identity Security. Once you truly understand permissions, then (and only then) can you tackle the problem of the principle of least privilege. AI technologies (including LLMs, Gen AI, and Agentic AI) will be the centerpiece of the next generation of great companies. Intelligently collecting, using, and combining data... --- ### In-Person Events - Published: 2025-04-21 - Modified: 2025-04-22 - URL: https://veza.com/in-person-events/ Where to find Veza Looking for webinars? Where to find Veza Looking for webinars? RSAC 4/28 - 5/1 Moscone Center, San Francisco RSAC 2025, taking place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, is the premier gathering for cybersecurity professionals worldwide. It's where the industry converges to discuss the latest threats, trends, and solutions. Speaking Session: 4/29/25 @ briefing center 4:40PM at Moscone South Briefing Center (Beyond IAM: A New Paradigm for Identity Security with Mike Towers) Learn more Evanta CISO Summit | Chicago 5/13 TBA Evanta CISO Summits offer exclusive, peer-driven forums for security executives to collaborate on strategic challenges and best practices. Learn more Identiverse 6/3 - 6/6 Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas Identiverse in Las Vegas is the leading conference for digital identity professionals, focusing on the latest advancements and best practices in identity security. It provides a platform for industry leaders to discuss emerging trends, share knowledge, and showcase innovative solutions within the evolving identity landscape. Learn more Evanta CISO Summit | Atlanta 6/5 TBA Evanta CISO Summits offer exclusive, peer-driven forums for security executives to collaborate on strategic challenges and best practices. Learn more Gartner Security & Risk Management 6/9 - 6/11 National Harbor, MD The Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit provides essential insights for security and risk leaders, focusing on navigating the complexities of modern cybersecurity. It offers in-depth analysis and strategic guidance on emerging threats, risk mitigation, and the latest security technologies. Learn more Evanta CISO Summit | New York City 6/25 TBA... --- ### SEO: Veza + IdentityIQ - Published: 2025-04-17 - Modified: 2025-04-17 - URL: https://veza.com/veza-and-identityiq/ Supercharge IdentityIQ with Veza Get complete visibility of identities, in minutes Integrate apps and systems in minutes, not months See all identities, including non-human identities and local accounts Built for scale on the cloud Request demo Loved and trusted by Time to ValueExtensive year long professional implementation services and steep expenses for a single application integrationVeza for Ungoverned Systems: Low code integrations integrated in under an hourSystem TypesOptimized for on-prem and legacy applications. Limited support for cloud and SaaS applications Veza for Ungoverned Systems: Fast integrations to cloud, SaaS and custom systems as well as on-prem and legacy appsIdentity TypesCannot detect identities created outside of SailPoint (e. g. , local accounts), non-human identities or multiple identity providersVeza for Hidden Identities: Comprehensive visibility into all identity types - local accounts, employees, non employees and non-human identitiesScaleFails to handle substantial data in cloud and SaaS environments, leading to poor performanceVeza for IGA Intelligence: Enhanced risk detection for granular policy violations across multiple systemsIntelligent InsightsLimited visibility into user activity data and nested groups Veza for Faster Investigation: Quickly map a user’s permissions from the identity provider, roles, and groups—including nested instances—down to the resource level. End to End VisibilityOnly has insights into what roles a user has. No context on what resources and permissions the roles grant. Veza for Faster Investigation: Quickly map a user’s permissions from the identity provider, roles, and groups—including nested instances—down to the resource level. Natural LanguageHuman maintained glossary that can fall out of sync with updated role permissions... --- ### NHI Security - Published: 2025-04-16 - Modified: 2025-04-16 - URL: https://veza.com/product/nhi-security/ NHI Security Gain full visibility and control over your Non-Human Identities (NHIs) with Veza. Create a complete inventory of service accounts, keys, and secrets. Assign ownership to drive governance and remediation. Detect expired credentials and over-permissioned accounts to reduce risk. Secure your NHIs and human identities together on a single, unified platform. Read the data sheet Why use Veza Key Benefits Improve Security: Reduce the risk of dormant NHI accounts and unknown access paths to sensitive data and privileged actions. Reduce Compliance Gaps: Ensure teams across the organization are properly rotating keys and conforming to least privilege with NHIs. Eliminate Uncertainty: Get a handle on the size and scope of your NHI environment, even when workload accounts are hiding as human accounts. Key Features Discovery & Inventory: Find and track NHIs like AWS Lambdas, Databricks service principals, Azure AD enterprise apps, Github deploy keys, and local accounts using out-of-the-box rules from 40+ integrations across SaaS, cloud, on-prem, and custom apps. Ownership for Governance: Assign owners to NHIs - fully linked to their human lifecycle, with alerts when an owner leaves or moves from the organization. Data Enrichment: Tailor NHI detection to your environment using naming conventions or attribute combinations across 300+ integrations, including support for custom apps. Pre-built Intelligence Dashboards: Access 100+ pre-built reports and easily customize views to focus on what matters most. --- ### SEO: Veza + Saviynt - Published: 2025-04-16 - Modified: 2025-04-16 - URL: https://veza.com/veza-and-saviynt/ Supercharge Saviynt with Veza Get complete visibility of identities, in minutes Integrate apps and systems in minutes, not months See all identities, including non-human identities and local accounts Built for scale on the cloud Request demo Loved and trusted by Time to ValueExtensive year long professional implementation services and steep expenses for a single application integrationVeza for Ungoverned Systems: Low code integrations integrated in under an hourSystem TypesOptimized for on-prem and legacy applications. Limited support for cloud and SaaS applications Veza for Ungoverned Systems: Fast integrations to cloud, SaaS and custom systems as well as on-prem and legacy appsIdentity TypesCannot detect identities created outside of SailPoint (e. g. , local accounts), non-human identities or multiple identity providersVeza for Hidden Identities: Comprehensive visibility into all identity types - local accounts, employees, non employees and non-human identitiesScaleFails to handle substantial data in cloud and SaaS environments, leading to poor performanceVeza for IGA Intelligence: Enhanced risk detection for granular policy violations across multiple systemsIntelligent InsightsLimited visibility into user activity data and nested groups Veza for Faster Investigation: Quickly map a user’s permissions from the identity provider, roles, and groups—including nested instances—down to the resource level. End to End VisibilityOnly has insights into what roles a user has. No context on what resources and permissions the roles grant. Veza for Faster Investigation: Quickly map a user’s permissions from the identity provider, roles, and groups—including nested instances—down to the resource level. Natural LanguageHuman maintained glossary that can fall out of sync with updated role permissions... --- ### SEO: Access Graph - Published: 2025-04-07 - Modified: 2025-04-08 - URL: https://veza.com/search-access-graph/ Veza's Access Graph For the modern hybrid cloud enterprise, the scale of identity and access has moved beyond what can be accomplished with legacy tools built on old technology. Veza’s Access Graph was built to understand access permissions at scale and forms the foundation for Intelligent Access. Watch a demo "Veza is looking forward for us. It allows us to understand who, what, where, when, and why. If you can do that, you have the ability to secure any environment. And when you're talking about a global organization, that's what you need. "David Tyburski | VP of Information Security and CISO View case study “Having a world-class cybersecurity program that protects our brand, reputation, investors and intellectual property is of paramount importance to our firm, and we are continuing to incorporate innovative technology solutions. Our team is always looking for ways to develop a more comprehensive view of access across all of our applications and cloud infrastructure to allow us to modernize the firm’s access controls. We are excited to partner with Veza to help us accomplish this. ”Adam Fletcher | Chief Security Officer View case study "Using Veza, our security teams have gained valuable visibility across our systems - apps, infrastructure, and data, to better understand who can access what, helping drive stronger privileged access security practices. "Jenner Holden | CISO, Axon View case study "Stitching together identities with data sources and showing the connections between them in a way that’s easy to consume — it's a simple idea,... --- ### Bookit-events - Published: 2025-03-27 - Modified: 2025-04-01 - URL: https://veza.com/bookit-events/ BookIt Calendar See Veza's Access Control Platform in action Learn how Veza can enable Intelligent Access for all your identities across all of your systems, to help you definitively answer the question of "who can take what action on what data. " --- ### Email Preferences Confirmed > Veza enables organizations to easily understand, manage and control who can and should take what action on what data. - Published: 2025-02-26 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://veza.com/email-preferences-confirmed/ EMAIL PREFERENCES Thank you for confirming your desire to receive marketing communications. You can update your preferences, or view our privacy policy at any time. --- ### Email Preferences > Veza enables organizations to easily understand, manage and control who can and should take what action on what data. - Published: 2025-02-26 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://veza.com/email-preferences/ EMAIL PREFERENCES How much Veza do you want in your life? --- ### SEO: Access Reviews for SharePoint - Published: 2025-02-25 - Modified: 2025-04-02 - URL: https://veza.com/learn-sharepoint-access-reviews/ Access Reviews for SharePoint Automate user access certifications - creating comprehensive campaigns in record time. Certify with confidence by prioritizing risky access first and giving reviewers the context they need to approve or reject. Learn more in our definitive checklist for user access reviews User access reviews are commonly considered painful. The scope of complex identities and permissions makes manual governance impossible and teams are left leveraging legacy IGA tools that do not cover the full world of access. These legacy tools often missing critical systems like SharePoint, creating serious identity vulnerabilities. Download the Definitive Checklist for User Access Reviews to learn how to reduce the cost of governance and make better access decisions across all your identities and systems. Follow these step-by-step guidelines to deliver a UAR program that saves time and money, all while patching the blind spots that plague traditional UARs. Why use Veza Key Benefits Rapid Deployment: Get started in minutes with hundreds of agentless integrations. Compile campaigns instantly. Trusted Certifications: Stop guessing about abstract role names. Veza’s effective permissions translates system permissions into simple terms: Create, Read, Update, Delete. Efficiency: Focus on reviewing access with the greatest risk by prioritizing privileged accounts, toxic combinations and separation of duties violations. Comprehensive Reviews: Accurately reveal all accounts with access, including local, machine, and service accounts, even if they exist outside your identity platforms. Key Features Access Reviews: Create campaigns to review the permissions of any human or machine user, or for any resource, such as an S3 bucket or Snowflake table. Review... --- ### SEO: Access Reviews for SharePoint - Published: 2025-02-25 - Modified: 2025-02-25 - URL: https://veza.com/search-sharepoint-access-reviews/ Access Reviews for SharePoint Automate user access certifications - creating comprehensive campaigns in record time. Certify with confidence by prioritizing risky access first and giving reviewers the context they need to approve or reject. Schedule a demo Why use Veza Key Benefits Rapid Deployment: Get started in minutes with hundreds of agentless integrations. Compile campaigns instantly. Trusted Certifications: Stop guessing about abstract role names. Veza’s effective permissions translates system permissions into simple terms: Create, Read, Update, Delete. Efficiency: Focus on reviewing access with the greatest risk by prioritizing privileged accounts, toxic combinations and separation of duties violations. Comprehensive Reviews: Accurately reveal all accounts with access, including local, machine, and service accounts, even if they exist outside your identity platforms. Key Features Access Reviews: Create campaigns to review the permissions of any human or machine user, or for any resource, such as an S3 bucket or Snowflake table. Review Delegation: Automatically assign reviewers to the user’s manager or the owner of the resource. Smart Actions: Bulk certify access based on customizable conditions such as last-modified, time limits, recent usage, and separation-of-duties (SOD). Review Intelligence: Automate review suggestions based on past decisions. Enterprise Scale: Conduct hundreds of access reviews for all of your systems at once for large compliance programs. API Access: Programmatically create access reviews, view, or update certifications, and integrate with existing review tools. Introducing Advanced Access Reviews ADVANCED FEATURES Advanced Review Intelligence automation: Automate reviewer actions, such as approve, reject, or sign-off, for entities matching pre-defined and custom policies Access Intelligence integration: Focus reviewers on the riskiest users, entitlements, and resources... --- ### Partners - Published: 2025-02-25 - Modified: 2025-04-05 - URL: https://veza.com/partners/ PARTNERs Drive Growth & Secure the Cloud with Veza’s Partner Ecosystem Become a Partner Partner Portal Register A Deal First NameSubmit Innovate, Secure & Grow with Veza At Veza, we believe strong partnerships drive stronger security. The Veza Identity Partner Program is designed to empower our partners with the resources, expertise, and support needed to accelerate growth and deliver cutting-edge identity security solutions. We are committed to collaboration, transparency, and shared success—helping you expand opportunities and win in the evolving cybersecurity landscape. PARTNER WITH US Revolutionizing Identity Security—Together The Veza Identity Partner Program is built for collaboration, enabling our partners to drive security and innovation for our mutual customers. We equip partners with the tools to win—offering deal registration, competitive incentives, training and enablement, marketing support, and more. Participation in the program is by invitation only, ensuring a focused, high-impact ecosystem of industry-leading partners. Partner Portal Become a Partner BUILD WITH US Stronger Together: Innovate and Secure with Veza Becoming a Veza Technology Partner means combining our industry-leading identity security platform with your expertise to drive greater value for customers. Together, we unlock new opportunities, strengthen security postures, and accelerate innovation in the cloud era. Let’s shape the future of identity security—together. Integrations Become a Partner CONSULT WITH US Powering Success through strategic partnerships The Veza Identity Partner Program empowers consulting and implementation partners to drive seamless identity security transformations for our mutual customers. With exclusive access to training, enablement, and go-to-market support, our partners deliver expertise that accelerates adoption... --- ### SEO: Identity Management Software - Published: 2025-02-06 - Modified: 2025-04-02 - URL: https://veza.com/learn-identity-management-software/ Identity Management Software Before Veza, it was practically impossible to see the truth of enterprise access. There was no way to unravel the web of identities and permissions spread across hundreds of systems. Only Veza enables identity and security teams to visualize and right-size access permissions, across all systems. Learn more in our practical governance guide In today’s cybersecurity landscape, identity is the new perimeter. With a staggering 80% of breaches involving identity elements, it’s clear that Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) solutions are necessary to lead your organization toward least privilege. Effective governance without the right tools can be challenging and IGA tools are not created equal. If you’re considering a governance investment, first make sure to read the Practical Guide to Avoiding the Pitfalls of IGA.  This guide is designed to help you evaluate your options and lead you toward a solution for your governance problem. Discover the pitfalls of investing in outdated, static, or surface-level IGA tools and explore the best tools for eliminating identity blindspots. Products Access Search Visualize and control who has access to data across all enterprise systems. Only Veza analyzes permissions to resources for all identities (human or machine), helping security teams reduce risk before and after attacks. Learn more Access Intelligence Detect privileged users, dormant permissions, policy violations and misconfigurations with Veza’s 500+ pre-built queries. Veza shows you where to focus for maximum impact, and it even creates tickets for remediation. Learn more Activity Monitoring Veza monitors not only who can access, but also who has accessed... --- ### SEO: Access Reviews - Published: 2025-02-05 - Modified: 2025-04-02 - URL: https://veza.com/learn-access-reviews/ Access Reviews Automate user access certifications - creating comprehensive campaigns in record time. Certify with confidence by prioritizing risky access first and giving reviewers the context they need to approve or reject. How to conduct faster, more effective access reviews User access reviews are commonly considered painful. With the rise of cloud and SaaS applications, identities and permissions have exploded in complexity, leaving teams scrambling to accurately depict the state of access and successfully pass their audits. Download the Definitive Checklist for User Access Reviews to learn how to reduce the cost of governance and make better access decisions. By following these step-by-step guidelines, you can deliver a UAR program that saves time and money, all while patching the blind spots that plague traditional UARs. Why use Veza Key Benefits Rapid Deployment: Get started in minutes with hundreds of agentless integrations. Compile campaigns instantly. Trusted Certifications: Stop guessing about abstract role names. Veza’s effective permissions translates system permissions into simple terms: Create, Read, Update, Delete. Efficiency: Focus on reviewing access with the greatest risk by prioritizing privileged accounts, toxic combinations and separation of duties violations. Comprehensive Reviews: Accurately reveal all accounts with access, including local, machine, and service accounts, even if they exist outside your identity platforms. Key Features Access Reviews: Create campaigns to review the permissions of any human or machine user, or for any resource, such as an S3 bucket or Snowflake table. Review Delegation: Automatically assign reviewers to the user’s manager or the owner of the resource. Smart Actions: Bulk certify access based on customizable conditions... --- ### SEO: Access Reviews - Published: 2025-02-05 - Modified: 2025-02-05 - URL: https://veza.com/search-access-reviews/ Access Reviews Automate user access certifications - creating comprehensive campaigns in record time. Certify with confidence by prioritizing risky access first and giving reviewers the context they need to approve or reject. Schedule a demo Why use Veza Key Benefits Rapid Deployment: Get started in minutes with hundreds of agentless integrations. Compile campaigns instantly. Trusted Certifications: Stop guessing about abstract role names. Veza’s effective permissions translates system permissions into simple terms: Create, Read, Update, Delete. Efficiency: Focus on reviewing access with the greatest risk by prioritizing privileged accounts, toxic combinations and separation of duties violations. Comprehensive Reviews: Accurately reveal all accounts with access, including local, machine, and service accounts, even if they exist outside your identity platforms. Key Features Access Reviews: Create campaigns to review the permissions of any human or machine user, or for any resource, such as an S3 bucket or Snowflake table. Review Delegation: Automatically assign reviewers to the user’s manager or the owner of the resource. Smart Actions: Bulk certify access based on customizable conditions such as last-modified, time limits, recent usage, and separation-of-duties (SOD). Review Intelligence: Automate review suggestions based on past decisions. Enterprise Scale: Conduct hundreds of access reviews for all of your systems at once for large compliance programs. API Access: Programmatically create access reviews, view, or update certifications, and integrate with existing review tools. Introducing Advanced Access Reviews ADVANCED FEATURES Advanced Review Intelligence automation: Automate reviewer actions, such as approve, reject, or sign-off, for entities matching pre-defined and custom policies Access Intelligence integration: Focus reviewers on the riskiest users, entitlements, and resources by incorporating... --- ### SEO: non-human-identity-management > Non-human identities (NHIs) are the largest and fastest growing part of your identity attack surface, outnumbering human identities by an average of 17 to 1. Hackers can leverage NHIs just as easily as human identities, so your security and compliance strategies must address NHIs as first-class citizens. - Published: 2025-01-30 - Modified: 2025-04-09 - URL: https://veza.com/learn-non-human-identity-management/ Non-Human Identity Management Non-human identities (NHIs) are the largest and fastest growing part of your identity attack surface, outnumbering human identities by an average of 17 to 1. Hackers are attacking NHIs because they know they can avoid human-focused security tools like MFA, so your security and compliance strategies must adapt to secure NHIs as first-class citizens. Learn more about achieving least privilege for NHIs Securing NHIs requires Intelligent Access. Learn how to leverage modern, automated technology to find and label NHIs, assign human owners, analyze their permissions, monitor NHI activity and continuously run access reviews to ensure the NHIs in your organization are living up to the principle of least privilege. Challenges in securing NHIs DiscoveryMost organizations know where some of their NHI accounts are, but have a blind spot for those that might have been created years ago, before any standardized processes were implemented. OwnershipTo secure or govern an NHI, you need a human owner who knows how it’s used. Rotating credentials, doing access reviews, or even verifying that an NHI is still in use needs a person who understands where it fits in your technology stack. Rotating SecretsTools like secrets managers allow you to rotate credentials for NHIs, but what about all the NHI credentials that aren’t in the secrets manager? How do you make sure you don’t take on the security and compliance risk of expired keys? Intelligent Access at scale for NHIs Posture &MisconfigurationsFind and fix misconfigured cloud identities—human and non-human—that enable privilege escalation and... --- ### SEO: Access Governance - Published: 2025-01-23 - Modified: 2025-04-02 - URL: https://veza.com/learn-access-governance/ Access Governance Before Veza, it was practically impossible to see the truth of enterprise access. There was no way to unravel the web of identities and permissions spread across hundreds of systems. Only Veza enables identity and security teams to visualize and right-size access permissions, across all systems. Learn more in our practical governance guide In today’s cybersecurity landscape, identity is the new perimeter. With a staggering 80% of breaches involving identity elements, it’s clear that Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) solutions are necessary to lead your organization toward least privilege. Effective governance without the right tools can be challenging and IGA tools are not created equal. If you’re considering a governance investment, first make sure to read the Practical Guide to Avoiding the Pitfalls of IGA.  This guide is designed to help you evaluate your options and lead you toward a solution for your governance problem. Discover the pitfalls of investing in outdated, static, or surface-level IGA tools and explore the best tools for eliminating identity blindspots. Products Access Search Visualize and control who has access to data across all enterprise systems. Only Veza analyzes permissions to resources for all identities (human or machine), helping security teams reduce risk before and after attacks. Learn more Access Intelligence Detect privileged users, dormant permissions, policy violations and misconfigurations with Veza’s 500+ pre-built queries. Veza shows you where to focus for maximum impact, and it even creates tickets for remediation. Learn more Activity Monitoring Veza monitors not only who can access, but also who has accessed key... --- ### SEO: SaaS Access Security - Published: 2025-01-17 - Modified: 2025-03-25 - URL: https://veza.com/search-saas-access-security/ SaaS Access Security & Governance Veza is the fastest way to secure access to data in SaaS applications, reducing the risk of breaches and ensuring accurate audits for compliance. Schedule a demo Reduce the risk of breaches in SaaS apps Entitlements visibilityFind and fix permissions that were accidentally broad, violate least privilege, or are no longer needed. User Access ReviewsAutomate user access reviews to certify and recertify entitlements across SaaS apps and custom applications. Privilege monitoringIdentify admins, over-privileged service accounts, and guest users or overseas contractors with sensitive access. Local usersDiscover local users, and local accounts created outside the purview of SSO or IGA systems, leading to compliance failures. Posture & misconfigurationsRemediate best practice violations such as accounts with no MFA enrollment and inactive 3rd party app integrations. For all your identity security teams Identity & Access Management (IAM) Configure, setup, and automate user access reviews Run recertification campaigns with manager and supervisor reviews Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Automatically compile review and certification campaigns covering your cloud environments, on-premise systems, and SaaS apps. Delegate decision making to employee managers or data owners. Integrate with SOAR and ITSM systems like ServiceNow and Jira to implement access review decisions consistently and fast. Security Engineering & Security Operations Assess risks with out-of-box dashboards, insights, and analytics for apps like Salesforce, GitHub, and Atlassian. Find and fix accounts with by creating and enforcing policies on risky posture such as no MFA enrollment. Discover local users who are not in your SSO or IGA systems. Get... --- ### SEO: Identity Security - Published: 2025-01-17 - Modified: 2025-01-23 - URL: https://veza.com/identity-security/ Identity Security Before Veza, it was practically impossible to see the truth of enterprise access. There was no way to unravel the web of identities and permissions spread across hundreds of systems. Only Veza enables identity and security teams to visualize and right-size access permissions, across all systems. Schedule a demo Products Access Search Visualize and control who has access to data across all enterprise systems. Only Veza analyzes permissions to resources for all identities (human or machine), helping security teams reduce risk before and after attacks. Learn more Access Intelligence Detect privileged users, dormant permissions, policy violations and misconfigurations with Veza’s 500+ pre-built queries. Veza shows you where to focus for maximum impact, and it even creates tickets for remediation. Learn more Activity Monitoring Veza monitors not only who can access, but also who has accessed key resources to identify unnecessary permissions, right-size roles, trim unneeded entitlements, and remove dormant entities. Learn more Lifecycle Management Automatically grant and revoke access when a user joins, changes role, or leaves. Only Veza can dry-run your changes to prevent access mistakes and policy violations before they happen. Learn more Access Reviews Automate user access certifications, creating comprehensive campaigns in record time. Delegate with confidence by prioritizing risky access first and giving reviewers the context they need to approve or reject. Learn more Platform Features Access GraphVisualize the relationships between all human and machine users, apps, systems, and data sources. The Access Graph traverses users, groups, roles, and policies to connect identities to their "effective permissions", explained... --- ### SEO: Identity Management Software - Published: 2025-01-17 - Modified: 2025-01-23 - URL: https://veza.com/identity-management-software/ Identity Management Software Before Veza, it was practically impossible to see the truth of enterprise access. There was no way to unravel the web of identities and permissions spread across hundreds of systems. Only Veza enables identity and security teams to visualize and right-size access permissions, across all systems. Schedule a demo Products Access Search Visualize and control who has access to data across all enterprise systems. Only Veza analyzes permissions to resources for all identities (human or machine), helping security teams reduce risk before and after attacks. Learn more Access Intelligence Detect privileged users, dormant permissions, policy violations and misconfigurations with Veza’s 500+ pre-built queries. Veza shows you where to focus for maximum impact, and it even creates tickets for remediation. Learn more Activity Monitoring Veza monitors not only who can access, but also who has accessed key resources to identify unnecessary permissions, right-size roles, trim unneeded entitlements, and remove dormant entities. Learn more Lifecycle Management Automatically grant and revoke access when a user joins, changes role, or leaves. Only Veza can dry-run your changes to prevent access mistakes and policy violations before they happen. Learn more Access Reviews Automate user access certifications, creating comprehensive campaigns in record time. Delegate with confidence by prioritizing risky access first and giving reviewers the context they need to approve or reject. Learn more Platform Features Access GraphVisualize the relationships between all human and machine users, apps, systems, and data sources. The Access Graph traverses users, groups, roles, and policies to connect identities to their "effective permissions",... --- ### SEO: non-human-identity-management > Non-human identities (NHIs) are the largest and fastest growing part of your identity attack surface, outnumbering human identities by an average of 17 to 1. Hackers can leverage NHIs just as easily as human identities, so your security and compliance strategies must address NHIs as first-class citizens. - Published: 2025-01-17 - Modified: 2025-03-25 - URL: https://veza.com/search-non-human-identity-management/ Non-Human Identity Management Non-human identities (NHIs) are the largest and fastest growing part of your identity attack surface, outnumbering human identities by an average of 17 to 1. Hackers are attacking NHIs because they know they can avoid human-focused security tools like MFA, so your security and compliance strategies must adapt to secure NHIs as first-class citizens. Schedule a demo Challenges in securing NHIs DiscoveryMost organizations know where some of their NHI accounts are, but have a blind spot for those that might have been created years ago, before any standardized processes were implemented. OwnershipTo secure or govern an NHI, you need a human owner who knows how it’s used. Rotating credentials, doing access reviews, or even verifying that an NHI is still in use needs a person who understands where it fits in your technology stack. Rotating SecretsTools like secrets managers allow you to rotate credentials for NHIs, but what about all the NHI credentials that aren’t in the secrets manager? How do you make sure you don’t take on the security and compliance risk of expired keys? Intelligent Access at scale for NHIs Posture &MisconfigurationsFind and fix misconfigured cloud identities—human and non-human—that enable privilege escalation and lateral movement attacks. Remove risky accessRoot out inactive, dormant and over-permissioned service accounts, RPA identities, and SaaS integrations. Out-of-the-boxintelligenceIdentify and fix your riskiest NHIs, like service accounts with admin privileges, before they can be exploited by an attacker. Blast radius analysisIdentify your high blast radius NHIs—those with broad access to cloud resources—who... --- ### SEO: Access Governance - Published: 2025-01-15 - Modified: 2025-02-25 - URL: https://veza.com/access-governance/ Access Governance Before Veza, it was practically impossible to see the truth of enterprise access. There was no way to unravel the web of identities and permissions spread across hundreds of systems. Only Veza enables identity and security teams to visualize and right-size access permissions, across all systems. Schedule a demo Products Access Search Visualize and control who has access to data across all enterprise systems. Only Veza analyzes permissions to resources for all identities (human or machine), helping security teams reduce risk before and after attacks. Learn more Access Intelligence Detect privileged users, dormant permissions, policy violations and misconfigurations with Veza’s 500+ pre-built queries. Veza shows you where to focus for maximum impact, and it even creates tickets for remediation. Learn more Activity Monitoring Veza monitors not only who can access, but also who has accessed key resources to identify unnecessary permissions, right-size roles, trim unneeded entitlements, and remove dormant entities. Learn more Lifecycle Management Automatically grant and revoke access when a user joins, changes role, or leaves. Only Veza can dry-run your changes to prevent access mistakes and policy violations before they happen. Learn more Access Reviews Automate user access certifications, creating comprehensive campaigns in record time. Delegate with confidence by prioritizing risky access first and giving reviewers the context they need to approve or reject. Learn more Platform Features Access GraphVisualize the relationships between all human and machine users, apps, systems, and data sources. The Access Graph traverses users, groups, roles, and policies to connect identities to their "effective permissions", explained... --- ### SEO: Veza + Sailpoint - Published: 2024-12-05 - Modified: 2025-04-17 - URL: https://veza.com/veza-and-sailpoint/ Supercharge SailPoint with Veza Get complete visibility of identities, in minutes Integrate apps and systems in minutes, not months See all identities, including non-human identities and local accounts Built for scale on the cloud Request demo SailPoint was built during the era of on-premise identity governance, but the shift to cloud and hybrid environments has made managing identities significantly more complex. Veza offers a fresh, innovative approach to this age-old challenge. With Veza, the days of costly deployments, time-consuming integrations, manually human maintained role definitions, and limited visibility into all identities, nested roles, groups, and permissions are over. By augmenting your existing SailPoint deployment with Veza, you gain deeper insights into identity risks, extending visibility beyond just application users and their roles. Veza gives you a comprehensive view of both human and non-human identities, simplifying risk management, improving compliance, and strengthening asset protection with effective tools for enforcing least privilege access. Loved and trusted by Time to ValueExtensive year long professional implementation services and steep expenses for a single application integrationVeza for Ungoverned Systems: Low code integrations integrated in under an hourSystem TypesOptimized for on-prem and legacy applications. Limited support for cloud and SaaS applications Veza for Ungoverned Systems: Fast integrations to cloud, SaaS and custom systems as well as on-prem and legacy appsIdentity TypesCannot detect identities created outside of SailPoint (e. g. , local accounts), non-human identities or multiple identity providersVeza for Hidden Identities: Comprehensive visibility into all identity types - local accounts, employees, non employees and non-human identitiesScaleFails... --- ### Access Requests - Published: 2024-10-17 - Modified: 2025-04-16 - URL: https://veza.com/product/access-requests/ Access Requests Increases user productivity while providing security, visibility, and access management to quickly and accurately provision access across the enterprise. Request early access Read the data sheet Watch a demo Read the data sheet Why use Veza Key Benefits Consistent and Accurate Provisioning: Manage and fulfill access requests with the least privileged role Real-time Access Governance: Eliminate privilege creep with just-in-time access and auto-expiration Assured Compliance: Provision access in accordance with security policy in a consistent and compliant manner Enhanced Employee Experience: Increase employee productivity with self-service access requests from an easy-to-use catalog in the Access Hub combined with automated provisioning Complete Transparency: With the Access Hub, grant and revoke access for team members as well as monitor access across your team with the Manager's Access Dashboard  Key Features Self-Service Access Requests: Empower users to view, request, and remove their own access without the need for ticket creation Role Recommendations: Receive tailored least privilege role recommendations for access requests, that simulate the full impact of access before it is granted Just in Time Access: Empower users to request time-bound access to resources; reduce the risk of privilege creep Policy-based Provisioning: Automatically create new users accounts when needed and ensure users are consistently provisioned with the correct entitlements Access Requests demoWatch Access Requests in action to see how you can improve employee experience and achieve least privilege at scale. Watch a demo --- ### NHI Summit Registration - Published: 2024-10-08 - Modified: 2025-04-11 - URL: https://veza.com/nhi-summit-registration/ Watch the NHI Summit 2024 on-demand! Register to watch on-demand --- ### NHI Conference: NHI Summit 2024 - Published: 2024-10-07 - Modified: 2025-02-03 - URL: https://veza.com/nhi-summit-2024/ Speakers Agenda Event Overview NHIs (non-human identities) are hot for a reason. API keys, service accounts, and AI models constitute the largest and fastest-growing part of the identity attack surface. They're also hard to defend and highly privileged--a recipe for trouble. To learn what your peers are doing, join the largest NHI-focused conference of the year: NHI Summit 2024. This 3 hour virtual conference on October 30 features an amazing lineup of speakers in a fast-moving agenda. You'll leave with information you can't get anywhere else. Speakers Phil VenablesCybersecurity Leader Dr. Ed AmorosoCEO, Tag Infosphere Marcus HutchinsCybersecurity expert, ex-hacker Francis OdumFounder @ Software Analyst Cybersecurity Research Mario DuarteCISO, Aembit Elizabeth MannTechnology Strategist Nicole PerlrothAward-winning journalist Carl KubalskyDirector and Deputy CISO, John Deere Apurva DavéCMO, Aembit Harvinder NagpalIdentity Specialist, AWS Michele FreschiManaging Director, DuneGroup Greg HarrisPrincipal Red Team Engineer at Snowflake Tarun ThakurCo-Founder & CEO, Veza Rich DandlikerChief Strategy Officer, Veza Agenda 9:00 PT Welcome Tarun Thakur, Co-Founder & CEO, Veza 9:05 PT The Rise of NHIs, featuring Phil Venables Elizabeth Mann leads the conversation with Phil Venables about the growth of NHIs and how security teams will need to adapt. Phil Venables, Cybersecurity expert Elizabeth Mann, Technology Strategist 9:25 PT Securing Non-Human Identity (NHI): Personal Journey Learn what enterprise CISOs are prioritizing (and what they aren’t) with their identity access infrastructure. Dr. Edward Amoroso, Founder and CEO of TAG Infosphere 9:45 PT Secrets of the NHI Attack Marcus deconstructs a recent attack that exploited NHIs for privilege escalation, sharing key... --- ### Veza's Commitment to Trustworthy AI: Enhancing Identity Security While Safeguarding Customer Data - Published: 2024-09-27 - Modified: 2024-09-27 - URL: https://veza.com/vezas-commitment-to-trustworthy-ai/ Veza's Commitment to Trustworthy AI: Enhancing Identity Security While Safeguarding Customer Data Mike TowersChief Security & Trust Officer, Veza At Veza, we are excited to introduce Access AI, our generative AI-powered solution that brings the power of artificial intelligence to identity security in the enterprise. Access AI enables security and identity teams to maintain the principle of least privilege at scale, using an AI-powered engine to understand access, prioritize risks, and quickly remove unnecessary access for both human and non-human identities. With the launch of Access AI, Veza is delivering on our commitment to applying AI responsibly to enhance our platform's capabilities in ways that provide immense value to customers while safeguarding identity privacy and security. Access AI leverages machine learning and generative AI to surface contextualized recommendations for remediating identity-based threats, empowering teams to proactively investigate access, uncover how it was granted, and determine if and how it should be revoked. For more information on Access AI, please refer to this Access AI overview. With the launch of Access AI and these platform enhancements, Veza is redefining identity security and empowering organizations to accelerate their identity security transformations. By bringing generative AI to identity security in a transparent and responsible manner, Veza is enabling companies to proactively prevent identity-based incidents at enterprise scale while maintaining the highest standards of privacy and trust. As identity-related breaches and incidents continue to proliferate, Veza's AI-powered approach provides an essential toolkit for security and identity teams to achieve and maintain least privilege in... --- ### Identity Radicals - Published: 2024-09-24 - Modified: 2025-04-21 - URL: https://veza.com/identity-radicals/ Identity Radicals Introducing a group of CISOs, CIOs, and technology leaders who share our passion for driving innovation and shaping the future of identity security: the Veza CxO Advisory Board. Watch the latest episode! Our Mission Why we need a radical approach to identity security Despite the ever-increasing number of security tools available, hackers are more successful than ever with the number of breaches, and the average cost of a breach rising each year. The scale of access in the modern enterprise is orders of magnitude beyond what legacy tools and processes can cope with. We need radically new ideas to close the gaps in identity security and bring back least privilege. 75% Share of breaches relying on compromised or misused identities. $4. 88M Average cost of a data breach in 2024 17:1 Ratio of non-human to human identities in the cloud 4650 Average number of IAM roles in enterprise AWS deployments. The Veza CxO Advisory Board This group will serve as a strategic thought partner to Veza, fostering the exchange of ideas and best practices among industry leaders, and establishing the foundation of a radical new approach to identity security. Shweta GummidipudiVP, Global Enterprise Apps & Data, Snowflake Steve McMahonChief Customer Success Officer, Zscaler David TyburskiCISO, Wynn Resorts Jenner HoldenVP & Distinguished Engineer, Axon Mario DuarteCISO, Aembit Tom BaltisCISO, Delta Dental Dave EstlickCISO, Chipotle Nicole PerlrothManaging Partner, Silver Buckshot Ventures Craig RosenPortfolio Advisory CISO, TPG David ReillyAdvisory, Board Member (Ally, Vectra) Mike TowersChief Security & Trust Officer, Veza Tarun... --- ### SEO: State of Access for PAM - Published: 2024-09-23 - Modified: 2025-03-26 - URL: https://veza.com/pam_state-of-access/ Evaluating Privileged Access Management Software?  Read this report first. The State of Access Report will tell you how you stack compared to industry benchmarks in regard to identity and access. You may not be as secure as you think.  Leverage these access stats to evaluate your org’s current state and choose the right solution. Teams everywhere are struggling with the challenges of managing identity. The volume and complexity of permissions across hundreds of systems and thousands of users prohibits organizations from understanding the true reality of access. Identities span human and non-human alike, increasing the potential for blindspots and making least privilege harder to achieve. How can organizations make progress when they cannot clearly see the problem or the goal posts? Introducing the inaugural State of Access report, which provides helpful benchmarks about permissions to understand how you rank amongst your industry and how close you are to achieving least privilege. Download the report to see:  Average number of identity platforms (and which ones used most) Average number of roles and groups, per employee Ratio of non-human (service accounts) to human identities Average permissions associated with inactive and dormant users Average unused access in cloud systems like AWS and Snowflake Download report Read the full report today! Free download --- ### SEO: State of Access for IAM - Published: 2024-09-20 - Modified: 2025-03-26 - URL: https://veza.com/iam_state-of-access/ Evaluating Identity AccessManagement Software?  Read this report first. The State of Access Report will tell you how you stack compared to industry benchmarks in regard to identity and access. You may not be as secure as you think.  Leverage these access stats to evaluate your org’s current state and choose the right solution. Teams everywhere are struggling with the challenges of managing identity. The volume and complexity of permissions across hundreds of systems and thousands of users prohibits organizations from understanding the true reality of access. Identities span human and non-human alike, increasing the potential for blindspots and making least privilege harder to achieve. How can organizations make progress when they cannot clearly see the problem or the goal posts? Introducing the inaugural State of Access report, which provides helpful benchmarks about permissions to understand how you rank amongst your industry and how close you are to achieving least privilege. Download the report to see:  Average number of identity platforms (and which ones used most) Average number of roles and groups, per employee Ratio of non-human (service accounts) to human identities Average permissions associated with inactive and dormant users Average unused access in cloud systems like AWS and Snowflake Download report Read the full report today! Free download --- ### Non-Human Identity Management > Non-human identities (NHIs) are the largest and fastest growing part of your identity attack surface, outnumbering human identities by an average of 17 to 1. Hackers can leverage NHIs just as easily as human identities, so your security and compliance strategies must address NHIs as first-class citizens. - Published: 2024-09-04 - Modified: 2025-04-09 - URL: https://veza.com/use-cases/non-human-identity-management/ Non-Human Identity Management Non-human identities (NHIs) are the largest and fastest growing part of your identity attack surface, outnumbering human identities by an average of 17 to 1. Hackers are attacking NHIs because they know they can avoid human-focused security tools like MFA, so your security and compliance strategies must adapt to secure NHIs as first-class citizens. Read the data sheet Challenges in securing NHIs DiscoveryMost organizations know where some of their NHI accounts are, but have a blind spot for those that might have been created years ago, before any standardized processes were implemented. OwnershipTo secure or govern an NHI, you need a human owner who knows how it’s used. Rotating credentials, doing access reviews, or even verifying that an NHI is still in use needs a person who understands where it fits in your technology stack. Rotating SecretsTools like secrets managers allow you to rotate credentials for NHIs, but what about all the NHI credentials that aren’t in the secrets manager? How do you make sure you don’t take on the security and compliance risk of expired keys? Intelligent Access at scale for NHIs Posture &MisconfigurationsFind and fix misconfigured cloud identities—human and non-human—that enable privilege escalation and lateral movement attacks. Remove risky accessRoot out inactive, dormant and over-permissioned service accounts, RPA identities, and SaaS integrations. Out-of-the-boxintelligenceIdentify and fix your riskiest NHIs, like service accounts with admin privileges, before they can be exploited by an attacker. Blast radius analysisIdentify your high blast radius NHIs—those with broad access to cloud... --- ### SEO: Why Veza - Published: 2024-08-28 - Modified: 2025-03-26 - URL: https://veza.com/why-choose-veza/ Why Veza? The scope, scale, and complexity of access control has skyrocketed, creating new surface area for identity-based cyber threats. And with the frequency and cost of data breaches also accelerating, the stakes have never been higher. Old tools, built on old technology are no longer enough. "I think once a customer gets to the data that’s in Veza: the visibility, the actionability, they’ll question how they were able to live without that. "Brad Jones | CISO, Snowflake View case study Why Now? Why do you need Intelligent Access? The increasing scale and complexity of managing access, along with the growing frequency and cost of identity-based attacks, demands a new approach to identity security. The old ways aren't working any more. 1,295 Number of cloud services used by the average enterprise org. Plus an average of 364 SaaS apps. 17x Machine identities outnumber human identities in the cloud by an average of 17 to 1. 75% Share of breaches that occur through theft or misuse of identities. $4. 45mil Global average cost of a data breach. In the US, it's $9. 48mil. What is Intelligent Access? “Intelligent Access” means that access is governed at the speed of business. Permissions are granted and revoked automatically and continuously, in accordance with security policies, for all identities and all systems. Any company looking to govern access to data at scale should insist on the five key tenets of Intelligent Access. To learn more about Intelligent Access, read our book or watch the book... --- ### Veza Library - Published: 2024-08-09 - Modified: 2024-09-06 - URL: https://veza.com/veza-library/ Veza Library Browse our selection of ebooks written by the finest minds and most experienced practitioners in the Identity Security space. Discover more Schedule a Demo Veza Bookstore Visualize and control who has access to data across all enterprise systems. Only Veza reveals granular resource permissions for all identities, human & machine, helping security teams reduce risk before and after attacks. Read the data sheet The Intelligent Access Series Veza Co-Founder and CEO Tarun Thakur teams up with the brightest minds in Identity for this series of guides to Intelligent Access and how to achieve Least Privilege in your organization. A Practitioner's Guide to Intelligent Access With Phil Venables and  “Least privilege” is what everyone wants, and very few achieve. Yet, given the onslaught of identity-based attacks, we must answer it. Tarun and Phil Venables, cybersecurity leader and Veza board member, shed light on practical strategies that will lead your organization toward modern access governance and access control, built on the strong foundation of an enterprise-level privilege management program. Get the ebook Watch the launch event Strategies for Achieving Least Privilege in the Modern Enterprise With Phil Venables and  Just like a growing plant, identity modernization proceeds through three key phases: Seed, Sprout, and Bloom. Co-authors Jason Chan (former Netflix VP) and Tarun Thakur explain how to approach these phases and build an enduring identity strategy. Get the ebook Watch the launch event Modernizing Identity with Just-in-Time Access With Phil Venables and  Mario Duarte, former VP of Security at Snowflake,... --- ### Access AI - Published: 2024-08-02 - Modified: 2025-04-16 - URL: https://veza.com/product/access-ai/ Access AI Veza helps organizations strive towards the principle of least privilege, with Generative AI-powered capabilities to help Security & Identity teams prevent, detect, and respond to identity-based threats. Access AI brings GenAI based capabilities to all Veza products. Request early access Read the data sheet Watch a demo Read the data sheet Why use Veza Key Benefits Least privilege: Visualize and control effective permissions in all systems, including apps, on-prem , cloud services and data systems. Discover and remediate identity misconfigurations, dormant permissions, unneeded privileged accounts and over-permissioned identities. Reduced risk: Surface and prioritize identities with the highest privilege, risk, or policy issues across all enterprise systems, without having to master the complex access models of systems like AWS IAM, Snowflake, and Salesforce. Operational efficiency: Reduce manual, repetitive tasks by leveraging Access AI to detect and remove excess access. Use Veza to delegate access decisions in natural language to business managers who best understand specific systems. Key Features Access Search: Access AI enables identity, security, app, and data teams to use Veza Access Search in natural language across identities, birthright groups, access roles, policies, permissions, and resources. Capabilities include: Attribute-driven: Show me Okta Users who have MFA disabled and can read from AWS S3 buckets. Conditional scenarios: Show me Okta users who have access to AWS S3 buckets via Okta Group memberships AND/OR conditions: Show me Azure AD users who are guests and who have administrator roles. Access Intelligence: Discover risky users, resources, trends, and other access insights in natural language. Veza Risk Intelligence... --- ### SEO: Snowflake Identity Access Risk Assessment - Published: 2024-06-28 - Modified: 2025-03-26 - URL: https://veza.com/snowflake-identity-access-risk-assessment/ Free Identity Access risk assessment for Snowflake Discover your top identity access risks for Snowflake Identity is the weakest link in your security, with 80% of breaches involving compromised identities. Yet access risks frequently go unnoticed in the cloud due to a critical lack of visibility into the effective permissions of human and machine identities. Snowflake stores some of the most critical data your organization holds: behavioral data, PII, financial information and more. Don’t wait for identity misconfigurations to be discovered and exploited by an attacker. Veza’s Access Graph brings together data from cloud infrastructure and identity platforms to link identities to their permissions and entitlements in Snowflake. For a limited time, Veza is offering free 1-hour risk assessments to uncover identity risks across Snowflake. Our team will help you capture access metadata from Snowflake in the Veza Access Platform, to quickly make sense of the effective permissions across your system and provide an in-depth analysis of your data, to uncover access risks including:  Super-users and super-roles in your Snowflake environment. Dormant or underutilized roles and users. Ungoverned local users in Snowflake not managed via your Identity Provider. Excessive role hierarchies that obscure access and impact the performance of your queries. Register with your business email to arrange your workshop today! Request your free risk assessment --- ### Vulnerability Disclosure Policy - Published: 2024-06-27 - Modified: 2024-11-19 - URL: https://veza.com/vulnerability-disclosure-policy/ Vulnerability Disclosure Policy Scope Veza’s Responsible Disclosure Policy applies to Veza’s core platform and its information security infrastructure, and internal and external employees or third parties, including but not limited to: Our main website (www. veza. com) Our SaaS platform (www. vezacloud. com) Our public API endpoints What we would like to see from you: Well-written reports in English will have a higher probability of resolution. Reports that include proof-of-concept code equip us to better triage. Reports that include only crash dumps or other automated tool output may receive lower priority. Reports that include products not on the initial scope list may receive lower priority. Please include how you found the bug, the impact, and any potential remediation. Please include any plans or intentions for public disclosure. Provide us with a reasonable amount of time to resolve the issue before any disclosure to the public or a third-party. Make a good faith effort to avoid privacy violations, destruction of data, and interruption or degradation of our service during your research. In return, we promise to: A timely response to your email (within 2 business days). After triage, we will send an expected timeline, and commit to being as transparent as possible about the remediation timeline as well as on issues or challenges that may extend it. An open dialog to discuss issues. Notification when the vulnerability analysis has completed each stage of our review. If we are unable to resolve communication issues or other problems, Veza may bring in a... --- ### SEO: Starbucks Schedule a demo - Published: 2024-06-10 - Modified: 2025-01-15 - URL: https://veza.com/starbucks/ Schedule a demo Veza empowers organizations to visualize, manage, and control access across the enterprise. Trusted by Blackstone, Wynn Resorts, and Expedia, Veza offers a modern, efficient, and secure way to manage: Next-gen identity governance & administration Non-human identity management Privileged access monitoring Data system access SaaS access security Why CISO's choose Veza Reduce Security RisksFix misconfigurations and mitigate risks from external and internal threats. Shrink Your Attack SurfaceMinimize privileges, reduce blast radius, and disable dormant accounts. Cut Governance CostsSave labor on monitoring, reviewing, and enforcing access policies. Streamline ComplianceCompile and assign access reviews in minutes for SOC 2 Type II, SOX, ISO 27001, DPAs, GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and other compliance mandates. Tool ConsolidationReplace multiple tools with Veza’s comprehensive platform, delivering immediate value. "Veza brought something unique to the table that we had never seen before. And that really is the permission graph that lets us deeply understand the link between Okta to all of our different AWS accounts, to our databases, and Active Directory. We hadn't seen anything like that and to be able to visualize that in, in, you know, basically 30 seconds is truly amazing. "Jason Simpson | Vice President of Engineering View case study "Veza is looking forward for us. It allows us to understand who, what, where, when, and why. If you can do that, you have the ability to secure any environment. And when you're talking about a global organization, that's what you need. "David Tyburski | VP of Information Security and CISO View case... --- ### SEO: Non-Human Identity Risk Assessment - Published: 2024-05-21 - Modified: 2025-01-15 - URL: https://veza.com/nhi-risk-assessment/ Free non-human identity (NHI) risk assessment Discover your top identity access risks across human & non-human identities Identity is the weakest link in your security, with 80% of breaches involving compromised identities. Yet access risks frequently go unnoticed in the cloud due to a critical lack of visibility into the effective permissions of human and machine identities. The growing prevalence of non-human identities (NHIs) in the cloud—outnumbering human identities by an average of 17 to 1—makes it even harder to scale up manual processes to find and fix misconfigured identities. Don’t wait for identity misconfigurations to be discovered and exploited by an attacker. Veza’s Access Graph brings together data from cloud infrastructure and identity platforms to link identities to their permissions and entitlements. For a limited time, Veza is offering free 1-hour risk assessments to uncover identity risks across Okta and AWS IAM. Our team will help you capture access metadata from Okta and AWS in the Veza Access Platform, to quickly make sense of the effective permissions across your system and provide an in-depth analysis of your data, to uncover access risks including: Human & non-human identities with full admin permissions Human & non-human identities with permissions that could allow an attacker to grant themselves critical privileges AWS Roles, Service Accounts or KMS keys with a high “blast radius”: access to a large proportion of your AWS resources Inactive users and dormant IAM groups Register with your business email to arrange your workshop today! Request your free risk assessment --- ### Trust and Security - Published: 2024-04-10 - Modified: 2025-03-25 - URL: https://veza.com/company/trust-and-security/ Why Veza? The scope, scale, and complexity of access control has skyrocketed, creating new surface area for identity-based cyber threats. And with the frequency and cost of data breaches also accelerating, the stakes have never been higher. Old tools, built on old technology are no longer enough. You need Intelligent Access. Read about Intelligent Access Trust and Security Security is a first-class citizen at Veza, from the design phase, all the way through to implementation, deployment, and operations. Read our security whitepaper Data Privacy and Compliance Veza recognizes the immense importance our customers place on data privacy. We are committed to processing personal data responsibly and in full compliance with applicable regulations around the world. Our privacy team oversees our data protection program, conducts regular privacy impact assessments, and is available to assist customers with privacy inquiries. Please refer to our Privacy Policy for complete details on how we collect, use and protect personal data. Read about Intelligent Access GDPR and CCPA complianceVeza is fully compliant with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). We adhere to the core data protection principles of these regulations globally. Privacy by designFrom the earliest stages of product development through launch and beyond, we build privacy considerations and data minimization into our technologies and practices. We aim to collect and process the minimum personal data required. SOC 2 and ISO 27001 CertifiedVeza has earned the widely-recognized SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications after rigorous and recurring third-party audits... --- ### Why Veza? - Published: 2024-03-22 - Modified: 2025-04-28 - URL: https://veza.com/why-veza/ Why Veza? The scope, scale, and complexity of access control has skyrocketed, creating new surface area for identity-based cyber threats. And with the frequency and cost of data breaches also accelerating, the stakes have never been higher. Old tools, built on old technology are no longer enough. Join Veza’s Co-Founder and CEO Tarun Thakur to explore Veza’s vision for Intelligent Access. Read Manifesto “With Veza, we have end-to-end visibility over our cloud data” Our customers share how Veza simplifies identity alignment andtransforms data accessibility for organizations of all sizes. Watch the video Why Veza? The scope, scale, and complexity of access control has skyrocketed, creating new surface area for identity-based cyber threats. And with the frequency and cost of data breaches also accelerating, the stakes have never been higher. Old tools, built on old technology are no longer enough. Join Veza’s Co-Founder and CEO Tarun Thakur to explore Veza’s vision for Intelligent Access. Read our manifesto Veza Dramatically Improves Risk Management while Cutting Costs Slash Integration Costs and ComplexityBreak free from expensive, slow integration services. Veza’s modern framework, out-of-the-box integrations, and self-service connectors slash onboarding costs and eliminate the need for costly consulting firms. ‎ Learn more Cut Expensive IGA Software SpendConsolidate identity management, replace outdated IGA systems, and cut software fees with a unified platform that simplifies and modernizes access governance. ‎ Learn more Eliminate License Waste and Save MillionsIdentify and eliminate unused licenses to slash waste and optimize spend—often recovering millions in savings that offset the cost of... --- ### Access Monitoring - Published: 2024-03-14 - Modified: 2025-04-22 - URL: https://veza.com/product/activity-monitoring/ Access Monitoring Veza monitors not only who can access, but also who has accessed key resources to identify unnecessary permissions, right-size roles, trim unneeded entitlements, and remove dormant entities. Read the data sheet How Blackstone uses Activity Monitoring to manage risk "When you combine access with Access Monitoring you start to get into the question of whether an employee really needs the access they were given... Even if they're entitled to that access, having the ability to see that they're not using it enables us to make better decisions about the risks associated with keeping that access" Adam Fletcher | Chief Security Officer Watch the video Schedule a Demo Why use Veza Key Benefits Least privilege: Know what resources users have actually accessed, to remove dormant access and right-size permissions for users and roles. Clean up dormant entities: Remove dormant identities, roles, and resources. Mitigate risk: Identify and focus on managing your most over-privileged users, roles, and resources. Respond rapidly: Speed up post-incident forensics by identifying what resources an attacker actually accessed. Save cloud costs: Remove resources and SaaS licenses which are never used. Key Features Monitor: Collect and summarize log data from Snowflake, AWS and other enterprise systems to know who accessed what resources. Over-Provisioned Access Score (OPAS): A single numerical score, comparing levels of activity against any resource, to help you prioritize your most over-privileged roles and users. Access Stats: CIEM monitoring to determine whether identities actually use the access they have to key data resources like Snowflake tables and AWS IAM, including... --- ### Careers - Published: 2024-03-14 - Modified: 2025-04-18 - URL: https://veza.com/company/careers/ Careers at Veza We're building the future of identity security. Will you join us? See open positions Veza + You Our mission is to help organizations trust confidently so they can unlock the value of their data. We're searching for individuals who are passionate about building the future of data and security. Benefits, perks, and hybrid work To do your best work, your health and well-being are key. That's why we offer great benefits and perks - including flexible ways of working. It all depends on what works best for you and your team. Benefits, perks, and hybrid work To do your best work, your health and well-being are key. That's why we offer great benefits and perks - including flexible ways of working. It all depends on what works best for you and your team. Our Values The 'MIGHT' of Veza encapsulates our company's core values, guiding us to embody them in our daily actions and decisions, driving our success and integrity forward. Learn more Ownership MindsetAdopting an ownership mindset means that we care about the holistic success of the company, more than our own personal goals. We maintain this mindset, with unwavering commitment to bold actions, even when difficult. Ownership means thinking big. Act With IntegrityTo act with integrity means that we are honest and transparent in our interactions with all Veza stakeholders, including customers, partners, and employees. We follow the golden rule and support each other. Guardians of Our CustomersWe are guardians of our customers, which means that... --- ### Glossary - Published: 2024-02-16 - Modified: 2024-02-21 - URL: https://veza.com/glossary/ Glossary No results found. No results found. --- ### SEO: Access Reviews Checklist - Published: 2024-02-08 - Modified: 2025-04-02 - URL: https://veza.com/access-reviews-checklist/ The DefinitiveChecklist forUser AccessReviews User access reviews are commonly considered painful. With the rise of cloud and SaaS applications, identities and permissions have exploded in complexity, leaving teams scrambling to accurately depict the state of access and successfully pass their audits. Download our comprehensive checklist for successful access reviews. By following these step-by-step guidelines, you can deliver a UAR program that saves time and money, all while patching the blind spots that plague traditional UARs. Now that we don’t have to invest so much time and effort into setting up and running access reviews each quarter, our team is able to spend more of our time on our mission to design security processes and configurations that strengthen our overall security posture. David Morton || Team Lead, Senior Security Engineer, Genesys Here at Veza, we’re pushing access reviews even further by enabling organizations to complete successful access reviews in minutes. By leveraging automation, Veza customers can partake in one-click access reviews to view and approve user permissions on mobile or desktop, improving the speed and accuracy of access decisions. These Next-Gen UARs help organizations answer the simple question, “who can take what action on what data? ” without the complicated runaround.  Learn more Veza gives us both broader and deeper visibility into who has access to our data, and how they have access to that data, so we can trust and verify that all personnel only have the access they need. Puneet Bhatnagar || Senior Vice President, Head of IAM -... --- ### Quotes Master - Published: 2024-02-02 - Modified: 2024-08-07 - URL: https://veza.com/quotes-master/ "Veza is looking forward for us. It allows us to understand who, what, where, when, and why. If you can do that, you have the ability to secure any environment. And when you're talking about a global organization, that's what you need. "David Tyburski | VP of Information Security and CISO View case study "Using Veza, our security teams have gained valuable visibility across our systems - apps, infrastructure, and data, to better understand who can access what, helping drive stronger privileged access security practices. "Jenner Holden | CISO, Axon View case study "Stitching together identities with data sources and showing the connections between them in a way that’s easy to consume — it's a simple idea, but a complex problem to solve. Veza makes the process of understanding who has access to what really, really easy. "Dave Farrow | VP, Information Security, Barracuda Networks View case study "Stitching together identities with data sources and showing the connections between them in a way that’s easy to consume — it's a simple idea, but a complex problem to solve. Veza makes the process of understanding who has access to what really, really easy. "Dave Farrow | VP, Information Security, Barracuda Networks View case study "I think once a customer gets to the data that's in Veza: the visibility, the actionability, they'll question how they were able to live without that. "Brad Jones | Chief Information Security Officer View case study "If you're using a cloud of any size, there's probably plenty... --- ### Free trial - Published: 2024-01-31 - Modified: 2024-02-01 - URL: https://veza.com/free-trial/ Get started with a free trial today One platform for all your data security needs Try Veza Tell us about yourself, and we'll get back to you very soon. Authorization Metadata Graph built for any system, any platform, any cloud Data-centric approach to cloud security Infinite Integrations and Open Authorization API (OAA) https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=EytGcmW70X8 "Using Veza, our security teams have gained valuable visibility across our systems - apps, infrastructure, and data, to better understand who can access what, helping drive stronger privileged access security practices. "Jenner Holden | CISO, Axon View case study "Stitching together identities with data sources and showing the connections between them in a way that’s easy to consume — it's a simple idea, but a complex problem to solve. Veza makes the process of understanding who has access to what really, really easy. "Dave Farrow | VP, Information Security, Barracuda Networks View case study "Using Veza allows me to sleep better at night because I know that there's an automated tool watching our systems. Even if an infrastructure change is made to support a release, I know that we'll be getting alerts, allowing us to tighten up security as we grow our business. "Sean Todd | CISO, PayNearMe View case study "As we provide a single platform across our different operating companies and markets, it’s critical to know that our sensitive customer and business information is secure, not just internally across those different markets, but also externally for the customer-facing applications we support. "Kevin... --- ### Schedule a demo - Published: 2024-01-31 - Modified: 2025-04-29 - URL: https://veza.com/schedule-demo/ Schedule a demo See Veza's Access Control Platform in action Learn how Veza can enable Intelligent Access for all your identities across all of your systems, to help you definitively answer the question of "who can take what action on what data. " "Veza brought something unique to the table that we had never seen before. And that really is the permission graph that lets us deeply understand the link between Okta to all of our different AWS accounts, to our databases, and Active Directory. We hadn't seen anything like that and to be able to visualize that in, in, you know, basically 30 seconds is truly amazing. "Jason Simpson | Vice President of Engineering View case study "Veza is looking forward for us. It allows us to understand who, what, where, when, and why. If you can do that, you have the ability to secure any environment. And when you're talking about a global organization, that's what you need. "David Tyburski | VP of Information Security and CISO View case study "As an insurance company, our customers rely on us to maintain a strong compliance posture to keep their data secure. Veza has given our team unprecedented visibility to manage all identities and their access, enforce policies, and mitigate risks. We appreciate Veza’s flexibility in adding new integrations for both common and industry unique applications. "Brad Lontz | SVP of IT & CIO View case study --- ### Veza Tours - Published: 2024-01-30 - Modified: 2025-04-09 - URL: https://veza.com/veza-tours/ See Veza in action --- ### Data System Access - Published: 2024-01-30 - Modified: 2025-03-12 - URL: https://veza.com/use-cases/data-system-access/ Data System Access Your most sensitive data may not be neatly stored away in a SQL table, but spread across unstructured data stores beyond the reach of traditional IGA tools. With Veza, you can understand and control access to unstructured data in your data lakes, ML datasets, shared drives, and cloud storage. Intelligent access for unstructured data Complex access policiesIntegrate with data tagging and classification tools to build sophisticated access queries. For example, can identities outside the finance team access any resources containing PCI data? Safeguard sensitive dataContinuously monitor for new access to sensitive data in storage buckets, fileshare systems, and data warehouses. Least privilegeAssess blast radius by finding users with unnecessary or broad access to Sharepoint sites, data lakes, and shared drives. Secure collaborationIdentify and monitor guest users and third parties with access to unstructured data in shared drives. For all your identity security teams Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Automatically compile and assign access reviews and certifications for sensitive data in cloud storage buckets or shared drives. Track sensitive access by guest users, external contractors and third parties Assign the least permissive role possible for ad hoc access requests to any resources. Security and Risk Management (SRM) Enforce detailed policies for restricting access to different types of unstructured data. Identify and fix privilege drift and identities with overly broad access to fileshares. Monitor for shared drive misconfigurations, such as drives that are accessible to the internet. Leading enterprises trust Veza for Unstructured Data Access With Veza, we have... --- ### Contact Us - Published: 2024-01-30 - Modified: 2025-05-01 - URL: https://veza.com/contact-us/ Get in touch with us! Tell us about yourself, and we'll be in touch soon. Talk with support "Veza brought something unique to the table that we had never seen before. And that really is the permission graph that lets us deeply understand the link between Okta to all of our different AWS accounts, to our databases, and Active Directory. We hadn't seen anything like that and to be able to visualize that in, in, you know, basically 30 seconds is truly amazing. "Jason Simpson | Vice President of Engineering View case study "Veza is looking forward for us. It allows us to understand who, what, where, when, and why. If you can do that, you have the ability to secure any environment. And when you're talking about a global organization, that's what you need. "David Tyburski | VP of Information Security and CISO View case study "As an insurance company, our customers rely on us to maintain a strong compliance posture to keep their data secure. Veza has given our team unprecedented visibility to manage all identities and their access, enforce policies, and mitigate risks. We appreciate Veza’s flexibility in adding new integrations for both common and industry unique applications. "Brad Lontz | SVP of IT & CIO View case study --- ### SaaS End User Customer Agreement - Published: 2024-01-30 - Modified: 2025-03-04 - URL: https://veza.com/legal/ SaaS End User Customer Agreement Last updated: January 2024 PLEASE READ THIS SAAS END USER AGREEMENT (THE "TERMS") CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE SERVICES OFFERED BY VEZA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. ("VEZA"). 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Veza helps you untangle the complex web of cloud IAM to know exactly who can do what across Amazon, Google, Azure, and Oracle cloud environments. Access managment at enterprise scale Posture & MisconfigurationsFind and fix cloud IAM misconfigurations that enable privilege escalation and lateral movement. Remove risky accessRoot out inactive IAM users, dormant service accounts and ungoverned local users. Out-of-the-box intelligenceIdentify and fix your top cloud access risks before they can be exploited by an attacker. Blast radius anaysisIdentify your high blast radius users—identities with broad access to cloud resources—who represent the greatest risk if compromised. For all your identity security teams Identity & Access Management (IAM) Understand the effective permissions of cloud identities without the need to master multiple complex IAM systems. Seamlessly onboard and offboard users from your cloud environments, assigning appropriate access according to team and duties. Respond to requests for resource access with automated least privilege group and role recommendations. Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Instantly compile comprehensive access reviews for your cloud environments assigned to user managers or resource owners. Enforce policies for toxic combinations or separation of duties (SoD). Track all users with admin permissions in your cloud environments. Security Engineering & Security Operations Analyze historical access and blast radius in your cloud environments to detect and respond to any compromised account. Remediate risks and violations in real-time with alerts or ITSM tickets in ServiceNow, Slack,... --- ### Privileged Access Monitoring - Published: 2024-01-30 - Modified: 2025-03-12 - URL: https://veza.com/use-cases/privileged-access-monitoring/ Privileged Access Monitoring Don’t let unauthorized users and privileged users slip through the cracks of your IGA or PAM tools. Use Veza to find and fix privilege violations with your data systems, SaaS apps, and cloud services. Take charge of high-risk identities Privilege violationsIdentify unauthorized users and guest users with privileged access to sensitive data. Find and fix over-permissioned service accounts. Stay apprised of any external or overseas contractors with non-compliant access. Security auditsDiscover local users and local admins created outside the purview of identity systems (SSO, IGA), causing audit problems with regulations like SOX, ISO 27001, and SOC 2. Posture & misconfigurationsEliminate risky posture such as local users and privileged accounts with no MFA enrollment and inactive 3rd party app integrations. Least privilegeMonitor and trim unused permissions to maintain the principle of least privilege. Get alerts on unused access across SaaS apps, custom apps, data systems, and cloud providers. For all your identity security teams Identity & Access Management (IAM) Ensure complete onboarding & offboarding of privileged accounts—human or machine—by checking all cloud and on-prem apps, data systems, and cloud IAM systems. Automatically trim dormant privileged access. Trim access to individual objects like Snowflake tables or GitHub repositories based on usage. Assign the least permissive role possible for ad hoc access requests to any resources. Security and Risk Management (SRM) Provide reports to auditors that don’t miss privileged local users Enforce policies for identity security posture such as requiring MFA Enforce policies for toxic combinations or separation of duties... --- ### SaaS Access Security - Published: 2024-01-30 - Modified: 2025-03-12 - URL: https://veza.com/use-cases/saas-access-security/ SaaS Access Security & Governance Veza is the fastest way to secure access to data in SaaS applications, reducing the risk of breaches and ensuring accurate audits for compliance. Reduce the risk of breaches in SaaS apps Entitlements visibilityFind and fix permissions that were accidentally broad, violate least privilege, or are no longer needed. User Access ReviewsAutomate user access reviews to certify and recertify entitlements across SaaS apps and custom applications. Privilege monitoringIdentify admins, over-privileged service accounts, and guest users or overseas contractors with sensitive access. Local usersDiscover local users, and local accounts created outside the purview of SSO or IGA systems, leading to compliance failures. Posture & misconfigurationsRemediate best practice violations such as accounts with no MFA enrollment and inactive 3rd party app integrations. For all your identity security teams Identity & Access Management (IAM) Configure, setup, and automate user access reviews Run recertification campaigns with manager and supervisor reviews Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Automatically compile review and certification campaigns covering your cloud environments, on-premise systems, and SaaS apps. Delegate decision making to employee managers or data owners. Integrate with SOAR and ITSM systems like ServiceNow and Jira to implement access review decisions consistently and fast. Security Engineering & Security Operations Assess risks with out-of-box dashboards, insights, and analytics for apps like Salesforce, GitHub, and Atlassian. Find and fix accounts with by creating and enforcing policies on risky posture such as no MFA enrollment. Discover local users who are not in your SSO or IGA systems. Get notifications in ITSM... --- ### About Us > Veza enables organizations to easily understand, manage and control who can and should take what action on what data. - Published: 2024-01-29 - Modified: 2025-05-02 - URL: https://veza.com/company/ Veza, the Identity Security Company View Manifesto Meet our Founders (left to right) Tarun Thakur, CEO; Maohua Lu, CTO; Rob Whitcher, Chief Architect Our vision is for organizations to have the power to use and share their data safely Veza is the authorization platform for data. Built for hybrid, multi-cloud environments, Veza enables organizations to easily understand, manage and control who can and should take what action on what data. We empower customers to take an identity-first approach to secure data by addressing critical business needs of streamlining access governance, implementing data lake security, managing cloud entitlements, and modernizing privileged access. Our Authorization Graph connects identities and their relationships to data across enterprise systems, enabling analysis, monitoring, and certification of end-to-end access. Our founding story In early 2020, Tarun, Maohua, and Rob saw an evolutionary event coming in tech: The world’s data was rapidly, irreversibly transitioning to the cloud. They called dozens of senior tech leaders and asked each one the same question: What is your biggest worry related to the data moving to the cloud? CIOs, CISOs and CDOs shared with them: “I don’t understand who has access to our most sensitive data. ” It was shocking to them that no one in the industry has addressed this problem. They knew they had discovered a critical missing piece in securing data: authorization. That insight led to the company vision: to build a platform that is powered by authorization metadata — all to address the toughest data security challenges. Our... --- ### Integrations - Published: 2024-01-26 - Modified: 2025-04-22 - URL: https://veza.com/integrations/ Integrations Veza connects with all of your identity, cloud infrastructure, apps, and data systems to help you answer the crucial question of who can take what action on what apps and data. Read the datasheet Integrations Catalog Active DirectoryActive DirectoryReduce risks of data breaches in Active Directory AWSAWSReduce risks of data breaches in AWS through the application of least privilege AzureAzureReduce risks of data breaches in Azure through the application of least privilege Crowdstrike FalconCrowdstrike FalconSecure access to sensitive data in Crowdstrike Falcon GithubGithubSecure access to sensitive data in Crowdstrike Falcon Google CloudGoogle CloudReduce risks of data breaches in Google Cloud through the application of least privilege Google DriveGoogle DriveSecure access to sensitive data in Google Drive OAAOAAConnect any custom app using Veza's OAA OktaOktaUnderstand, manage, and control access permissions for any enterprise identity in Okta OracleOracleUnderstand, manage, and control access permissions for any enterprise identity in Oracle SalesforceSalesforceSecure access to sensitive data in Salesforce ServiceNowServiceNowSecure access to sensitive data in ServiceNow SharePoint OnlineSharePoint OnlineSecure access to sensitive data in Azure SharePoint Online SnowflakeSnowflakeSecure access to sensitive data in Snowflake WorkdayWorkdaySecure access to sensitive data in Workday Active DirectoryActive DirectoryUnderstand, manage, and control access permissions for any enterprise identity in Active Directory Auth0Auth0Understand, manage, and control access permissions for any enterprise identity in Auth0 Azure ADAzure ADUnderstand, manage, and control access permissions for any enterprise identity in Azure AD AWS IAMAWS IAMUnderstand, manage, and control access permissions for any enterprise identity in AWS IAM Google Cloud IAMGoogle Cloud IAMUnderstand, manage,... --- ### Lifecycle Management - Published: 2024-01-26 - Modified: 2025-04-16 - URL: https://veza.com/product/lifecycle-management/ Lifecycle Management Automatically provision and deprovision access throughout a user’s lifecycle Read the data sheet Why use Veza Key Benefits Improve Onboarding of New Joiners: Provision consistent birthright access for new joiners to the applications and resources they need for immediate productivity  Prevent Privilege Creep for Movers: Automate the removal of unneeded permissions and provision newly required access when a user changes job function or moves to a new location Remove Access for Leavers Immediately:  Minimize risk by automatically and thoroughly removing access when users leave the organization, including local accounts Key Features Trigger Provisioning Workflows based on Joiner, Mover, and Leaver Events: Automatically provision new access for joiners, adjust access for movers, and remove access for leavers based on events from your human resource information system Scheduled Events: Define predetermined dates to automatically provision or deprovision access Audit Ready: Automated audit logging of all provisioning and deprovisioning events, including policy changes, to demonstrate adherence to security policies Policy-Based Attribute Mapping: Ensure all relevant user attributes, including custom attributes, are appropriately mapped from the identity source to target application accounts Supported Applications BambooHRBambooHRSecure access to sensitive data in BambooHR Oracle HCMOracle HCMUnderstand, manage, and control access permissions for any enterprise identity in Oracle Cloud IAM SAP HCMSAP HCMSecure access to sensitive data in SAP HCM WorkdayWorkdaySecure access to sensitive data in Workday AWSAWSReduce risks of data breaches in AWS through the application of least privilege GithubGithubSecure access to sensitive data in Github Google CloudGoogle CloudReduce risks of data breaches in... --- ### Access Intelligence - Published: 2024-01-26 - Modified: 2025-04-16 - URL: https://veza.com/product/access-intelligence/ Access Intelligence Detect privileged users, dormant permissions, policy violations and misconfigurations with Veza’s 500+ pre-built queries. Veza shows you where to focus for maximum impact, and even creates tickets for remediation. Read the data sheet Why use Veza Key Benefits Reduced risk: Surface and prioritize identities with the highest privilege, risk, or policy issues across all enterprise systems, without having to master the complex access models of systems like AWS IAM, Snowflake, and Salesforce. Least privilege: Reduce risks and simplify audits by continuously identifying and remediating identity misconfigurations, dormant permissions, and excess privilege. Team efficiency: Reduce manual, repetitive tasks by leveraging automation to detect and remove excess access. Delegate access decisions to line-of-business experts. Key Features Risks: Continuously scan permissions to identify deviations from best practices, security misconfigurations, and other anomalies. Veza recommends specific actions to resolve identified risks. Alert rules: Define automated actions based on the results of custom queries. Initiate alerts and remediation leveraging your ITSM tools such as Slack, Jira, ServiceNow, and more. Access Monitoring: CIEM monitoring to determine whether identities actually use the access they have to key data resources like Snowflake tables and AWS IAM. SaaS Misconfiguration Detection: SSPM monitoring to identify risky misconfigurations in SaaS applications. Separation of Duties (SoD): Monitor access within and across systems to surface identities with potential SoD violations. Custom reports: Create custom reports and dashboards organized by data source, service, risk, or other. Dashboards: Out-of-the-box insights, including security-focused dashboards for vital systems (Salesforce, Snowflake, and GitHub) and summary dashboards tailored for CISOs and audit teams. Introducing Advanced Access Intelligence... --- ### Access Reviews - Published: 2024-01-26 - Modified: 2025-04-16 - URL: https://veza.com/product/access-reviews/ Access Reviews Automate user access certifications - creating comprehensive campaigns in record time. Certify with confidence by prioritizing risky access first and giving reviewers the context they need to approve or reject. Read the data sheet Why use Veza Key Benefits Rapid Deployment: Get started in minutes with hundreds of agentless integrations. Compile campaigns instantly. Trusted Certifications: Stop guessing about abstract role names. Veza’s effective permissions translates system permissions into simple terms: Create, Read, Update, Delete. Efficiency: Focus on reviewing access with the greatest risk by prioritizing privileged accounts, toxic combinations and separation of duties violations. Comprehensive Reviews: Accurately reveal all accounts with access, including local, machine, and service accounts, even if they exist outside your identity platforms. Key Features Access Reviews: Create campaigns to review the permissions of any human or machine user, or for any resource, such as an S3 bucket or Snowflake table. Review Delegation: Automatically assign reviewers to the user’s manager or the owner of the resource. Smart Actions: Bulk certify access based on customizable conditions such as last-modified, time limits, recent usage, and separation-of-duties (SOD). Review Intelligence: Automate review suggestions based on past decisions. Enterprise Scale: Conduct hundreds of access reviews for all of your systems at once for large compliance programs. API Access: Programmatically create access reviews, view, or update certifications, and integrate with existing review tools. Introducing Advanced Access Reviews ADVANCED FEATURES Advanced Review Intelligence automation: Automate reviewer actions, such as approve, reject, or sign-off, for entities matching pre-defined and custom policies Access Intelligence integration: Focus reviewers on the riskiest users, entitlements, and resources by... --- ### Customers - Published: 2024-01-26 - Modified: 2024-12-13 - URL: https://veza.com/customers/ Revolutionizing identity governance at Blackstone "We're using Veza for access reviews and certifications with more than 700 reviewers. At this point, we've onboarded over 60 applications, including data, on-prem, and SaaS applications. " Adam Fletcher | Chief Security Officer Watch the video Schedule a Demo Bringing visibility to role-based access control at Snowflake "I think once a customer gets to the data that's in Veza: the visibility, the actionability, they'll question how they were able to live without that. " Brad Jones | Chief Information Security Officer Watch the video Schedule a Demo Streamlined compliance and least privilege at Sallie Mae "Less access translates to less risk, which means a more secure identity environment. "Scott Thomas | Director of Identity & Access Management Watch the video Schedule a Demo Safeguarding 100 years of entertainment with Deluxe Media “Veza gives my team and I complete visibility and control of our data. That makes it very simple for our teams to determine any misconfiguration or inappropriate access. For example, we are able to identify everyone in GitHub that has access to specific code repositories, and understand AWS user access down to the bucket level. ” Sean Moore | Executive Vice President of Engineering Watch the video Securing data from 14 hotel brands with Choice Hotels "This is one of the most exciting tools I’ve ever seen, and I’ve been at it for 30 years. Out of the box, Veza has given us the ability to identify and fix aspects of our InfoSec... --- ### Access Search - Published: 2024-01-25 - Modified: 2025-04-22 - URL: https://veza.com/product/access-search/ Access Search Visualize and control who has access to data across all enterprise systems. Only Veza reveals granular resource permissions for all identities, human & machine, helping security teams reduce risk before and after attacks. Read the data sheet Why use Veza Key Benefits Least privilege: Visualize and control effective permissions for all identities in all systems, including apps, on-premise, cloud services, and data systems. Find and remove unneeded privileged accounts and unused access. Continuous compliance: Build queries and alerts to automatically scan for access that violates policies required for frameworks like SOX, SOC 2, NIST, and GDPR. Threat investigation: Quickly assess the detailed access of compromised identities to prioritize incident response. Key Features Access Search: Visualize the current effective permissions for all identities in all systems, in near real-time. Covers apps, data warehouses, and all major cloud providers. Access AI: Search in natural language across identities, birthright groups, access roles, policies, permissions, and resources. Query Builder: Build rich queries with filtering, sorting, and complex operands spanning multiple systems. Leverage tags to search access to sensitive data types. Risk Heatmaps: Identify and prioritize risky permissions. Time Travel: Compare historical views of the Access Graph to surface changes in permissions over time. API Queries: Create and run queries via RESTful APIs to enrich data in your existing tools, workflows, and solutions. Veza Query Language (VQL) ADVANCED FEATURES Powerful queries: Track the relationships between any source and destination nodes in Veza's Access Graph, and even specify relationship paths. Easy to learn: VQL utilizes familiar SQL conventions so you can pick it up... --- ### Next-gen IGA - Published: 2024-01-25 - Modified: 2025-03-12 - URL: https://veza.com/use-cases/next-gen-iga/ Next-Gen IGA Veza reinvents access reviews and certifications with automation and access intelligence, to help managers make informed decisions. 7x faster than manual reviews Access CampaignsRun periodic campaigns to verify, certify, and recertify entitlements to specific resources. Audit reportingDemonstrate compliance with SOX, ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR and more. Speed the compliance process with audit-ready access reports. RemediationIntegrate with ServiceNow, JIRA and more to clean up dormant, excessive or policy-violating permissions. DelegationEmpower managers and supervisors to make access decisions based on effective permissions in simple language (create, read, update, delete. ) For all your identity security teams Identity & Access Management (IAM) Orchestrate end-to-end access reviews from certification to renewal in a unified workflow, delegating decisions to LOB managers. Remove excessive or dormant permissions during certification. Prioritize reviews of privileged accounts, including local users and admins who might fall through the cracks of SSO and IGA tools. Automate evidence collection for ongoing audits. Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Define and enforce separation of duties policies. Validate entitlements for sensitive resources outside the purview of SSO and IGA. Create governance workflows to prevent self-reviews and comply with industry regulations like SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and HIPAA. Compatible with all frameworks Veza's Next-Gen IGA solution is compatible with all major compliance frameworks, including Sarbnes Oxley (SOX), SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, GDPR, HIPAA, and more. Sarbanes Oxley (Sox) SOC 2 Type II ISO 27001 GDPR "As a fintech company, our customers rely on us to... --- ### Product - Published: 2024-01-25 - Modified: 2025-04-28 - URL: https://veza.com/product/ Veza Access Platform Before Veza, it was practically impossible to see the truth of enterprise access. There was no way to unravel the web of identities and permissions spread across hundreds of systems. Only Veza enables identity and security teams to visualize and right-size access permissions, across all systems. Schedule a demo Products Access Security Access Search Visualize and control who has access to data across all enterprise systems. Only Veza analyzes permissions to resources for all identities (human or machine), helping security teams reduce risk before and after attacks. Learn more Access Intelligence Detect privileged users, dormant permissions, policy violations and misconfigurations with Veza’s 500+ pre-built queries. Veza shows you where to focus for maximum impact, and it even creates tickets for remediation. Learn more Access Monitoring Veza monitors not only who can access, but also who has accessed key resources to identify unnecessary permissions, right-size roles, trim unneeded entitlements, and remove dormant entities. Learn more Access AI Veza helps organizations strive towards the principle of least privilege, with Generative AI-powered capabilities to help Security & Identity teams prevent, detect, and respond to identity-based threats. Access AI brings GenAI based capabilities to all Veza products. Learn more NHI Security Gain full visibility and control over your Non-Human Identities (NHIs) with Veza. Create a complete inventory of service accounts, keys, and secrets. Assign ownership to drive governance and remediation. Detect expired credentials and over-permissioned accounts to reduce risk. Secure your NHIs and human identities together on a single, unified platform. Learn more Access Governance... --- ### Use Cases - Published: 2024-01-24 - Modified: 2025-04-29 - URL: https://veza.com/use-cases/ One platform for enterprise-wide access governance Veza's Access Platform unlocks the truth of access permissions, powering security and governance initiatives across your organization. Schedule a demo Our Solutions Privileged Access Monitoring Visualize and control data access across all systems, proactively mitigating risks for both human and machine identities. Control permissions, identify unused access, and manage privileged accounts. Automate scans for policy violations related to SOX, SOC 2, NIST, GDPR Quickly assess the detailed access of compromised identities to prioritize incident response. Learn more Non-Human Identity Management Hackers are attacking NHIs because they know they can avoid human-focused security tools like MFA, so your security and compliance strategies must adapt to secure NHIs as first-class citizens. Discover NHIs efficiently across on-prem, SaaS apps, custom apps, and cloud infrastructure. Analyze permissions and activity of NHIs to identify and remove unneeded privileges, including admin permissions, without disrupting business-critical processes. Enforce security policies like key rotation for NHIs, and provide useful context to access reviewers, like “Time last rotated” and “Time last used”. Create a single streamlined provisioning processes for both human and non-human identities that maintains least privilege. Learn more Cloud Access Management Untangle the complex web of cloud IAM to know exactly who can do what across AWS, Google, Azure, and Oracle. Find and fix cloud IAM misconfigurations that enable privilege escalation and lateral movement. Root out inactive IAM users, dormant service accounts and ungoverned local users. Fix your top cloud access risks before they can be exploited. Identify your high blast... --- ### Press Room - Published: 2024-01-22 - Modified: 2024-02-01 - URL: https://veza.com/company/press-room/ Featured News Explore our news No results found. No results found. No results found. No results found. No results found. No results found. --- ### Virtual Events - Published: 2024-01-22 - Modified: 2025-04-22 - URL: https://veza.com/company/virtual-events/ Featured virtual events Watch on-demand No results found. No results found. No results found. No results found. No results found. --- ### Resources - Published: 2024-01-15 - Modified: 2024-05-03 - URL: https://veza.com/resources/ Featured Resources Explore our resources No results found. No results found. No results found. No results found. No results found. No results found. No results found. No results found. No results found. 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Watch the intro Schedule a Demo Identity Reimagined Reveal, Visualize, and Secure Your Identity Entitlements Everywhere! Schedule a Demo Introducing the Veza Access Graph See who can take what action to what data—everywhere. Veza unifies identities and entitlements across people, machines, and third parties, from apps to data, on-prem to SaaS. Learn more The Veza Access Platform Veza provides a unified Access Platform, bringing together all identities, across all systems for sophisticated access search, actionable intelligence, automated access reviews, and seamless identity lifecycle management. Learn more Introducing theVeza Access Graph See who can take what action to what data—everywhere. Veza unifies identities and entitlements across people, machines, and third parties, from apps to data, on-prem to SaaS. Veza unifies identities and entitlements across people, machines, and third parties, from apps to data, on-prem to SaaS. Learn more What we do Fast, comprehensive identity access visibility and access intelligence Veza maps your entire identity ecosystem—across users, groups, roles, policies, permissions, and resources—to uncover dormant accounts, excessive privileges, access drift, non-human and third-party access. Transform your identity program Veza secures identities across on-prem, non-human identities (NHI), cloud-native, SaaS, and custom apps. Replace fragmented tools with Veza’s unified access authorization platform for automation, simplicity, and precision—streamlining access governance, privilege... --- ### Privacy Policy - Published: 2023-09-19 - Modified: 2024-03-07 - URL: https://veza.com/privacy-policy/ Veza Technologies, Inc. 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Learn why identity is eating security and how to take back control. - Published: 2025-04-30 - Modified: 2025-04-29 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/identity-is-eating-security-access-is-the-new-perimeter/ - Categories: IAM, Identity Radicals, Identity Security, Privileged Access, Technical Thought Leadership - Tags: AccessGovernance, CloudSecurity, Cybersecurity, cybersecuritystrategy, DataSecurity, devsecops, IAM, IdentityGovernance, identitymanagement, IdentitySecurity, infosec, itsecurity, PrivilegedAccess, SecOps, securityleadership, SecurityOperations, threatintel, ZeroTrust Identity is eating security—bite by bite, breach by breach. As digital transformation accelerates, every identity—human or not—has become a potential entry point. Threat actors know it. And increasingly, they don’t need malware or zero-day exploits. All they need is access. In the modern enterprise, identity has become both the battleground—a space where attackers consume misconfigurations, over-permissioned roles, and forgotten service accounts. This isn’t theoretical. Leading threat intelligence reports make it plain: CrowdStrike: In its 2024 Global Threat Report, CrowdStrike reported that 79% of attacks were malware-free and emphasized that “identity is the new battleground. ” Identity Defined Security Alliance (IDSA): According to the IDSA’s 2024 Trends in Identity Security report, 90% of organizations experienced an identity-related incident in the past year, and 84% of those incidents had direct business impacts. Expel: In its 2023 annual report, Expel found that 68% of all security incidents investigated were identity-based, with compromised credentials and misused access as top vectors. MITRE: Based on real-world adversary behaviours, MITRE ATT&CK data shows that over 50% of observed attack techniques target identity, including privilege escalation, credential access, and lateral movement tactics. Cisco Talos: In its 2024 Year in Review, Cisco Talos reported that identity-based attacks accounted for 60% of all incident response cases. These attacks frequently involved the misuse of valid credentials and targeted systems like Active Directory and cloud APIs. Additionally, ransomware actors leveraged valid accounts for initial access in nearly 70% of cases.   The modern enterprise runs on data. From customer analytics to AI... --- ### Announcing Veza’s Series D: Securing Identities through Achieving Least Privilege - Published: 2025-04-28 - Modified: 2025-04-29 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/veza-announces-series-d-funding-to-accelerate-modern-identity-security/ - Categories: Company, Identity Security - Tags: Featured How do you achieve the principle of least privilege? One access permission at a time. Today, I am thrilled to share a significant milestone in Veza’s journey: we have raised $108 million dollars in Series D funding, led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with participation from all our existing investors—including Accel, GV (Google Ventures), True Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Ballistic Ventures, J. P. Morgan, and Blackstone Investments. We also welcomed new strategic investors, including Atlassian Ventures, Workday Ventures, and Snowflake Ventures. This investment fuels our continued GTM expansion and accelerates R&D across key innovation areas, including NHI Security, AI Governance, and Agentic AI Security. It also helps accelerate our focus on addressing the existing identity initiatives of next-gen IGA, cloud PAM, SaaS Security, and Cloud Entitlements Management. This new funding also marks an exciting next step in our mission to revolutionize and reimagine identity security. I am very proud of all that we have achieved as Vezanites, but we are just getting started on our north star journey to fundamentally transform identity forever. Identity is eating security  In the same way that Andreessen Horowitz famously said, “software is eating the world,” what we’re seeing now is that identity is eating security and leaving no crumbs. Identity represents a massive blind spot for enterprises and is now the primary attack vector. Every modern business initiative starts with identity, yet identity access remains one of the most under-protected and misunderstood aspects of enterprise security. Privilege abuse, insider threats, and credential compromise are... --- ### The Third-Party Access Problem: The Elephant in the Room for Every CISO’s Identity Strategy - Published: 2025-04-25 - Modified: 2025-04-25 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/the-third-party-access-problem-the-elephant-in-the-room-for-every-cisos-identity-strategy/ - Categories: Authorization, Compliance, Identity Radicals, Identity Security, IGA, Technical Thought Leadership - Tags: Access Control, access management, access visibility, authorization, Compliance, Cybersecurity, digital transformation, identity governance, identity lifecycle, Identity Security, IGA, Least Privilege, privileged access, Risk Management, secure collaboration, security operations, security posture, technical thought leadership, third party access, Zero Trust Why legacy access models fail, and how modern identity platforms are redefining third-party risk. As a long-time CISO and before that having led B2B and Third-Party Connectivity technology service teams, I've witnessed firsthand how third-party access remains one of security's most persistent challenges. Despite advancements in managing employee access, organizations continue to struggle with over-provisioned and under-governed access for vendors, contractors, and partners. This recurring issue demands urgent attention from security leaders. The Wake-Up Call Every major breach investigation starts with the same question: "Could a third party have been involved? " This isn't paranoia – it's pragmatism. Across the globe, third-party access continues to be one of the most exploited and least governed attack surfaces. Third-party access has been implicated in countless high-profile breaches, with real-world consequences on both sides of the Atlantic. In North America, Microsoft’s Midnight Blizzard attack in 2024 compromised sensitive U. S. government data through a third-party vulnerability. AT&T suffered a similar fate when a cloud vendor breach exposed millions of customer records. In the EU, regulatory fines under GDPR have been levied following vendors’ mishandling of personal data, reinforcing that organizations are accountable for the access they extend, even when it’s someone else’s mistake. Alarmingly, 59% of organizations report breaches tied to over-permissioned third-party identities. And yet, effective access controls remain elusive. Why? Because traditional identity & access management models weren't designed for the scale, diversity, and velocity of today’s third-party relationships. The reality is stark: most organizations over-provision access to vendors, contractors, and... --- ### Achieving Least Privilege at Scale: How OPAS Helps Enterprises Reduce Hidden Access Risks > Over-provisioned access is a hidden security risk that attackers exploit. Learn how Veza’s Over Provisioned Access Score (OPAS) helps security teams quantify risk, enforce least privilege, and reduce excessive permissions—without disrupting workflows. - Published: 2025-04-23 - Modified: 2025-04-23 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/achieving-least-privilege-opas-hidden-access-risks/ - Categories: Compliance, Data Security, IAM, Identity Security, Multi-Cloud, Privileged Access, Product, Technical Thought Leadership - Tags: AccessGovernance, AccessManagement, CloudSecurity, Compliance, Cybersecurity, IAM, Identity Security, IdentitySecurity, Intelligent Access, LeastPrivilege, OPAS, Over Provisioned, OverProvisionedAccess, PrivilegedAccessManagement, RBAC, RiskReduction, SecurityOperations, ThreatDetection, Veza, ZeroTrust 1. The Critical Need for Modern Access Visibility The Challenge: Over-provisioning is a Security Blind Spot Security teams today struggle with over-provisioned access, where users and service accounts have more permissions than they use or need. This isn’t just an operational nuisance; it’s a major security risk. Attackers exploit unused but enabled permissions to escalate privileges, move laterally across environments, and exfiltrate sensitive data. Yet, traditional identity and access management (IAM) tools fail to provide insight into over-permissioned accounts. Here’s why: Periodic access reviews are static and outdated – Organizations generally conduct access reviews on a scheduled basis to meet audit requirements, but these reviews are highly manual, generally rubber-stamped and rely on snapshots that quickly become obsolete. They fail to detect near real-time risks posed by excessive or unused permissions. No easy way to quantify over-provisioning – Without a clear way to measure unused permissions, security teams struggle to prioritize remediation efforts and reduce risk effectively. Manual tracking is inefficient and leaves critical blind spots. Many security teams still rely on cumbersome Excel sheets to track access permissions, making it nearly impossible to maintain accuracy at scale. Sifting through logs and static reports by hand is overwhelming, leading to inconsistencies, overlooked excessive permissions, and security lapses. Why This Matters Access in the new world is both highly dynamic and the most common root cause of security incidents. To maintain a good security posture and avoid leaving open accidental doors for attackers, organizations need continuous, granular Activity Monitoring to proactively... --- ### Least privilege demands that identity goes beyond IAM teams to app, data & security teams - Published: 2025-04-22 - Modified: 2025-04-22 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/least-privilege-demands-that-identity-goes-beyond-iam/ - Categories: Identity Security In today’s digital landscape, identity has evolved from being a narrowly defined IT problem into a critical, organization-wide priority for cybersecurity teams. Historically, managing identity was a challenge handled predominantly by the IT department, which was tasked with granting and revoking access to systems, applications, and data. However, in an era defined by ever-expanding cloud environments, remote work, and increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, solving access challenges and achieving least privilege is no longer just an IT concern. It requires collaboration from multiple teams (app teams, data teams, cloud engineering teams, IT teams, etc. ) across the enterprise. At Veza, we are empowering organizations to strive for least privilege beyond the traditional scope of IAM; teams across Security operations (SecOps), application owners, data owners, cloud engineering teams, governance and audit teams now all work together to tame the “wild west” of access. There is no other way to address the challenge of attaining least privilege - we must bring every team on the journey. As organizations grow and privilege sprawl increases, access to critical resources becomes harder to manage, increasing the risk of improper access that could lead to security breaches. With 2024 seeing the first billion dollar breach, it’s never been more important to get a definitive handle on access. The solution? Organizations need to achieve and maintain least privilege, giving them the power to confidently answer the question: “Who can take what action on what data? ” How different teams collaborate to achieve least privilege This question, once simple... --- ### When Logging In Is the New Hacking: Nicole Perlroth on the Evolving Cyber Threat Landscape > Journalist Nicole Perlroth joins Veza’s Mike Towers on Identity Radicals to expose how modern cyberattacks bypass firewalls by logging in, not hacking in. Learn why identity is the new perimeter and how enterprises can defend against nation-state threats in today’s evolving cyber landscape. - Published: 2025-04-21 - Modified: 2025-04-21 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/identity-radicals-nicole-perlroth-cybersecurity-zero-days/ - Categories: Identity Radicals In today’s cyber landscape, firewalls and antivirus software are no longer enough. According to acclaimed journalist and cybersecurity expert Nicole Perlroth, the conversation has shifted—from prevention to resilience, from “how do we keep them out? ” to “how do we recover when they’re already in? ” On a recent episode on the Identity Radicals Podcast, Mike Towers (Chief Security & Trust Officer, Veza) and Nicole—author of This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends—unpacked the shadowy underworld of zero-day exploits, the moral hazards of government stockpiling vulnerabilities, and why enterprises now sit on the frontlines of national security.   https://youtu. be/AlGMAvYpiWs Zero-Days: From Underground Markets to Global Threats Nicole has spent years investigating the zero-day vulnerability market—a world where software flaws are sold to the highest bidder before developers even know they exist. Once dominated by criminal hackers, the space is now rife with state actors. “Governments are hoarding zero-days,” she explained, “not to fix them—but to use them for espionage, surveillance, and disruption. ” The risks? Monumental. Nicole recounted that even the NSA wasn’t immune when discussing how their own cache of zero-days was leaked by the mysterious “Shadow Brokers” and weaponized by Russia, North Korea, and cybercriminals in attacks that spiraled globally. China’s New Playbook: Sophisticated, Stealthy, and Strategic Nicole and Mike took a deep dive into Chinese cyber operations, highlighting a dramatic shift—from overt phishing to covert infiltration of critical infrastructure. No longer relying on smash-and-grab tactics, today’s attackers blend in with legitimate admin activity, often... --- ### Simplifying CMMC 2.0 Compliance: Modern Access Control Strategies for Government Contractors > CMMC 2.0 is here. Discover how identity and access governance helps DoD contractors meet Level 2 requirements—across SaaS, cloud, and non-human identities. - Published: 2025-04-18 - Modified: 2025-04-18 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/cmmc-2-identity-access-governance/ - Categories: Compliance, Identity Radicals, Privileged Access, Product, Technical Thought Leadership - Tags: Compliance, Identity Security, Mike Towers A Modern Approach to Access Control and Data Security Introduction With CMMC 2. 0 requirements rolling out in Q1 2025, contractors and subcontractors working with the U. S. Department of Defense (DoD) must strengthen safeguards for Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and Federal Contract Information (FCI). Compliance—especially at Level 2—demands demonstrable control over access to sensitive systems and data. This blog explores how organizations can align with CMMC 2. 0’s core access control domains using a modern, scalable approach—highlighting capabilities enabled by platforms like Veza without being vendor-dependent. Understanding CMMC 2. 0 Access Control Requirements CMMC 2. 0 outlines a framework of cybersecurity maturity levels built on multiple security domains. Four of the most access-related domains—Access Control (AC), Audit and Accountability (AU), Configuration Management (CM), and Security Assessment (CA)—are critical to achieving Level 2 compliance. Below is a breakdown of how modern access governance platforms, including Veza, can support each domain. 1. Access Control (AC) Access Control is foundational to CMMC 2. 0. Organizations must manage “who has access to what, when, and why”, across complex hybrid environments. Platforms like Veza provide real-time visibility and control, helping enforce least privilege and need-to-know principles through: Automated enforcement of least privilege accessDynamic privilege right-sizing based on usage patternsAutomated detection and revocation of dormant privilegesRole-based access control (RBAC) templatesGranular CUI access controlsData classification integrationContext-aware access policiesAutomated enforcement of need-to-know principlesSeparation of duties (SoD) enforcementConflict detection in role assignmentsAutomated policy validationCross-system privilege analysisComprehensive audit trailsHistorical access changesApproval workflowsPolicy modifications 2. Audit and Accountability (AU) Auditability... --- ### Trust as the Foundation for Agentic AI Architecture: Securing Access to all the AI layers - Models, Infra, AI Applications - Published: 2025-04-14 - Modified: 2025-04-14 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/trust-as-the-foundation-for-agentic-ai-architecture-securing-access-to-all-the-ai-layers-models-infra-ai-applications/ - Categories: Data Security, Identity Security Agentic AI is reshaping how applications engage with the world, unlocking the ability to reason, plan, and act autonomously. As enterprises rush to embrace these new capabilities, one reality is becoming clear: agentic AI systems will only be adopted as fast as organizations trust them. At the architectural level, agentic AI systems are built on three essential layers: LLM LayerRole in Agentic AIModelThe core intelligence that enables reasoning and decision-making. InfraThe knowledge engine, often a vector database or AI memory, that grounds the model’s actions in real information. ApplicationThe orchestration of models and data into intelligent, autonomous behaviors. Each layer is vital — and each must be protected. Focusing on only one or two leaves enterprises exposed to risks that could compromise not just security, but the very trust that agentic AI depends upon. Security Across the Full Agentic AI Lifecycle While the full lifecycle of agentic AI development spans six stages, enterprises do not always move through every stage. Many organizations adopt agentic AI by consuming models directly at the inference stage, bypassing earlier phases like pretraining and fine-tuning. Others may engage with multiple stages but rarely cover the full end-to-end journey. However, whether enterprises build, customize, or simply deploy agentic AI solutions, understanding the complete lifecycle provides important context for where security must be applied. The key stages include: Pretraining: Building foundational knowledge through vast datasets. Fine-tuning: Specializing models for targeted tasks or industries. Instruction tuning: Teaching models to better follow structured human guidance. Reinforcement Learning from Human... --- ### How Veza Strengthens SOC 1 Compliance: Common Control Failures & How to Fix Them > Struggling with SOC 1 compliance? Learn how Veza automates access governance, enforces SoD, and strengthens audit readiness—just in time for tax season. - Published: 2025-04-10 - Modified: 2025-04-10 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/soc-1-compliance-automation-veza/ - Categories: Compliance, Data Security, Privileged Access, Technical Thought Leadership - Tags: Access Governance, audit readiness, compliance automation, financial controls, GRC, Identity Security, internal controls, separation of duties, SOC1, tax season Executive Summary: SOC 1 compliance signifies strong financial controls, helping businesses build client trust. Non-compliance can lead to reputational damage and lost business opportunities. As organizations manage increasing complexity in financial operations, ensuring continuous compliance becomes a challenge. Veza helps automate access governance, enforce separation of duties (SoD), and strengthen cyber incident response to maintain audit-ready controls. Introduction to SOC 1 Compliance and Its Importance As the personal income tax filing deadline approaches in the United States, imagine working with your Certified Public Accountant (CPA) to prepare and file your taxes with the IRS. You trust your CPA to ensure everything is accurate, filed on time, and in compliance with the most recent tax laws. But how do you know that your CPA follows the correct processes? What if an independent auditor examined the CPA firm and provided a report stating that the firm has strong and well-documented processes to ensure that client tax returns are prepared accurately and filed promptly? You’d sleep easier knowing your taxes are in good hands. Conversely, if the report indicated the CPA firm had weak processes, you’d likely look for another accountant!   This is precisely how SOC 1 (System and Organization Controls 1) compliance works for businesses. Companies providing outsourced financial services, such as payroll processing, banking, cloud computing, financial software, medical billing and claim processing, must assure clients that their internal controls are reliable. SOC 1 reports serve as independent auditor’s validation, confirming whether a company’s controls are reliable and meet compliance... --- ### AI Agents in the Enterprise and Their Implications for Identity Security - Published: 2025-04-08 - Modified: 2025-04-08 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/ai-agents-in-the-enterprise-and-their-implications-for-identity-security/ - Categories: Identity Security Introduction The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI (GenAI) has ushered in a new era of technology. We see AI and LLMs being embedded in every product, part of every software product roadmap, and every industry analyst presentation. Now, the AI revolution is impacting not just the processing of information but also automation, where AI is no longer just a tool but an active participant in enterprise workflows. This shift is driven by Agentic AI—AI systems that can function autonomously, make decisions, retrieve real-time data, and execute complex actions across the enterprise environment. While these AI agents promise tremendous productivity gains, they also introduce significant identity security challenges that organizations must address proactively. In this post, we explore the two primary flavors of AI agents that we expect to see in enterprises, their benefits and risks, and why a robust identity security framework is critical to managing them effectively. Understanding AI Agents: Key Characteristics AI agents differ from traditional LLM-based chatbots (like ChatGPT) in several key ways. AI agents have: Goal-driven autonomy: Unlike simple automation scripts that follow direct and explicit commands, AI agents pursue objectives independently, continuously adapting based on inputs and results at each stage. Real-world connectivity: These agents will integrate with multiple enterprise systems, retrieving, processing, and writing real-time data. Decision-making capabilities: AI agents analyze data, apply logic, and execute tasks without constant human oversight. Cross-application orchestration: Leveraging LLMs, they operate across multiple enterprise applications, blurring traditional application and system-specific security boundaries. These... --- ### The Treasury Access Incident: Five Critical Lessons for Modern Identity Security > The Treasury Department breach reveals the risks of mismanaged access permissions. Learn five critical identity security lessons and how modern platforms like Veza provide real-time visibility, automated risk detection, and dynamic governance to prevent similar incidents. - Published: 2025-04-04 - Modified: 2025-04-04 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/treasury-access-incident-identity-security-lessons/ - Categories: Compliance, Data Security, Identity Radicals, Industry News, Technical Thought Leadership - Tags: Access Governance, access intelligence, automated access control, Cloud Security, Identity Security, identity threat detection, least privilege enforcement, permission management, security compliance, Treasury breach Executive Summary The recent Treasury Department breach, caused by unauthorized access privileges, highlights the persistent risks organizations face with identity security and access governance. This breach was not the result of an advanced cyberattack but rather stemmed from simple misconfigurations and gaps in access controls. It underscores the urgency for organizations to rethink their identity security practices—moving from traditional, manual approaches to automated, continuous monitoring and granular, permission-level access management. As identity security professionals, we must adapt to an increasingly complex digital landscape. In this post, I’ll share five critical lessons from the Treasury incident that can help organizations better protect sensitive systems while ensuring necessary access for their workforce. Modern identity platforms are key to providing real-time visibility, automated risk detection, and dynamic governance processes. The Permission-Group Gap Remains Dangerous Despite advanced security measures, the Treasury breach was ultimately caused by a misconfiguration in access permissions—granting unintended write access to sensitive payment systems. This highlights a fundamental flaw in relying solely on role-based access control (RBAC). Organizations that base their visibility and decision-making on role and group names (e. g. , Sales-Readonly) and their descriptions risk missing the effective permissions actually granted to users—including those inherited through nested roles and groups. Without a deeper, permission-level understanding, critical access risks remain hidden, leaving sensitive assets exposed. How to Close the Gap Organizations need more than just a high-level view of group-based access—they need granular, permission-level visibility across all systems. Modern identity security platforms, such as Veza, go beyond simply mapping... --- ### Transforming Access Lifecycle Management with Veza’s Access Profiles > Explore how Veza’s Access Profile Automation streamlines access management and ensures least privilege across systems. Learn how Access Profiles simplify user lifecycle management, improve security, and reduce compliance risks with powerful automation and flexible governance features. - Published: 2025-04-03 - Modified: 2025-04-02 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/automating-least-privilege-access-with-vezas-access-profiles/ - Categories: Compliance, Identity Security, Product, Technical Thought Leadership - Tags: Access Profiles, automation, Identity Security, Intelligent Access, Least Privilege, Profiles In today's complex IT landscape, managing who has access to what and why is a critical challenge. Smart organizations knew they needed to implement the principle of least privilege across their applications, systems, and platforms, but traditional identity management and identity governance tools struggled to meet the challenge. This is why Veza developed the Access Graph, our industry-first approach to deeply understanding permissions and entitlements as the purest form of identity access. With access visibility to true permissions, organizations now needed a framework for defining access across their applications and systems over the end-to-end user access lifecycle. Enter Veza’s Access Profiles, a powerful framework designed to streamline access provisioning and deprovisioning, ensuring least privilege and compliance across diverse systems and platforms. The Challenge of Traditional Identity Governance Traditionally, identity governance has struggled with visibility. Organizations often lack a clear picture of who holds which permissions, leading to over-privilege as well as associated security risks and compliance issues. Legacy "entitlement catalogues" promised a solution but frequently failed due to complicated integrations and lengthy, expensive deployments, leaving many organizations frustrated. The Veza platform stands out from legacy IGA tools by offering dramatically faster and more agile integrations allowing constructs like Access Profiles to support entitlements from any Veza-integrated application. This provides a significant time-to-value advantage over traditional IGA tools. Access Profiles: Building Blocks for Access Lifecycle Management Veza’s Access Profiles act as building blocks defining collections of permissions and entitlements. These profiles can be tailored to specific needs, whether for birthright access... --- ### Effortless Access Governance for Custom Applications with Veza: Boost Access Reviews with Automation > Discover how Veza simplifies access reviews for custom and homegrown applications with seamless integration, automation, and a unified review process. Ensure compliance, reduce manual effort, and streamline workflows with Veza's innovative approach. - Published: 2025-04-01 - Modified: 2025-04-01 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/effortless-access-reviews-custom-apps-veza/ - Categories: Compliance, Identity Security, Integrations, Product, Technical Thought Leadership - Tags: Access Reviews, automation, Compliance, Custom Applications, CustomApps, GDPR, HIPAA, Identity Security, Intelligent Access, OAA, SOC1, SOC2, SOX Managing access reviews for custom and on-premises applications is a common challenge for many organizations, especially enterprises. Unlike commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software, custom and homegrown applications often lack standardized interfaces and processes for access management leading to manual reviews that are both time-consuming and prone to errors. This inefficiency poses significant compliance risk, especially when these applications fall in-scope for regulations like SOX, SOC 1, SOC 2, GDPR, or HIPAA. Why Custom Applications Need Access Reviews Custom applications, just like COTS applications, often handle critical business processes and can be considered in-scope for regulations that mandate regular user access reviews. Moreover, without proper access reviews, these applications can become a hotspot for over-provisioned accounts and compliance risks. Unique to custom or homegrown applications, however, is that they can be harder to integrate into standardized access governance practices - especially as the applications have become more complicated or their architectures have aged. Without a unified approach for both COTS and custom and homegrown applications, organizations risk missing vital compliance checks. Veza has changed the game by making access reviews for custom and homegrown applications just as simple and automated as they are for COTS applications. With seamless integration (via Veza OAA) into Veza’s Access Platform, custom and homegrown applications are incorporated into the same streamlined review workflows, eliminating the need for complex configurations or expensive training. Importantly, the reviewer experience for COTS and custom applications is identical when using Veza meaning no additional training for the managers and application owners responsible... --- ### Model Context Protocol (MCP): Implications on identity security and access risks for modern AI-powered apps > AI-powered applications are evolving rapidly, but are your identity security controls keeping up? Learn how Model Context Protocol (MCP) is changing the way AI agents access data—and how to mitigate the identity risks that come with it. - Published: 2025-03-31 - Modified: 2025-03-31 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/model-context-protocol-mcp-implications-on-identity-security-and-access-risks-for-modern-ai-powered-apps/ - Categories: Data Security, Identity Security, Technical Thought Leadership - Tags: AccessManagement, AgenticAI, AI, AIIdentity, AIIntegration, Cybersecurity, DataSecurity, IAM, Identity Security, IdentitySecurity, MCP, Veza, ZeroTrust This article was written by Maohua Lu, Shanmukh Sista, and Tarun Thakur The Changing Face of AI and Access Artificial intelligence has evolved dramatically over the past few years. Once limited to narrow tasks, AI systems can now function more autonomously, often referred to as “Agentic AI. ” Instead of just writing snippets of code or summarizing documents, these AI agents can actually log into data sources or SaaS applications, generate or modify records, and even trigger complex workflows. For an enterprise hoping to boost efficiency, the potential is huge. Yet this same autonomy introduces serious questions about how to control what data an AI agent can access, how it uses that data and information, and what might happen if its identity or credentials are compromised. Historically, identity and access management (IAM) solutions have focused on human users. Employees or contractors belonging to a directory service, would log in via single sign-on, pass multi-factor authentication, and be granted roles or privileges – all through group management. With AI, however, these AI assistants and AI agents (“users”) might not have a phone for MFA or a standard user profile in your identity provider. They may be ephemeral service accounts whose credentials often slip through the cracks. When that happens, an AI agent can accumulate privileges across different systems, effectively bypassing the careful role structures you put in place for enterprise systems. Understanding this shift—and ensuring it does not turn into a security liability—requires a new, identity-centric approach that explicitly accounts for... --- ### Reflections from Gartner IAM London: Visibility Leads to Observability > Reflections from Gartner IAM London: Why visibility isn’t enough—true security comes from observability. Explore how identity graphs, risk scoring, and access discovery help organizations stay ahead of threats. - Published: 2025-03-25 - Modified: 2025-03-26 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/reflections-from-gartner-iam-london/ - Categories: Identity Security, Industry Events, Industry News, Thought Leadership - Tags: Access Control, Cloud Security, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Gartner, Gartner IAM, IAM, IAM Summit, Identity Graph, Identity Security, IT Governance, Machine identities, Observability, Risk Management, Security Best Practices, Zero Trust Attending the Gartner Identity and Access Management (IAM) Summit in London felt a bit like being at a conference Sigmund Freud would’ve enjoyed. Instead of everyone psychoanalyzing their mothers, though, everyone was busy analyzing identity. Discovering machine identities is a lot easier than understanding the human mind. The Power of the Identity Graph One of the most interesting presentations was the keynote which focused on visibility. If Freud had been around today, he might have called it "The Subconscious of Your Network. " It’s a map of human and machine identities across organizations, including employees, external partners, service accounts, and sensitive secrets like keys and certificates. And just like understanding repressed desires, understanding your Identity Graph is crucial if you want to avoid sudden breakdowns — except these breakdowns involve hackers instead of childhood trauma. From Discovery to "Oh, That’s Why We Do This" The process outlined in the presentation can be broken down into three main steps: Discover Identities: This is like running a group therapy session where everyone finally admits who they really are. Whether it’s human or machine identities, it’s all about dragging them out of the shadows and into the light. Calculate Risk Scores: Here we’re rating identities for how likely they are to ruin your day. High-risk identities? Treat them like unresolved complexes — deal with them before they become nightmares. Discover Resources, Entitlements, and Policies: This step is like organizing a messy subconscious. You dig deep, find out who has access to what, and... --- ### GitHub OAuth Attack Alert: A Developer's Worst Nightmare and How to Prevent It > Learn about the growing threat of OAuth-based attacks on GitHub, how attackers use fake security alerts to compromise your code, and how Veza’s visibility, monitoring, and least privilege enforcement can help protect your repositories from these attacks. - Published: 2025-03-25 - Modified: 2025-03-24 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/github-oauth-attack-alert-a-developers-worst-nightmare-and-how-to-prevent-it/ - Categories: Data Security, DevOps, Identity Security, Industry News, Privileged Access, Technical Thought Leadership, Thought Leadership - Tags: github, Identity Security, oauth Imagine you’re a developer at a fast-paced tech company. You’ve been working tirelessly on your codebase, ready for the next big release. One morning, you receive what seems to be a routine GitHub security alert. It warns you that someone has accessed your account and urges you to verify and authorize the access. You click on the link, thinking it's a necessary step to ensure your repositories are secure. But what you don’t realize is that you’ve just fallen victim to a new, rapidly spreading OAuth-based attack. Suddenly, your code is compromised. Attackers, using the permissions they tricked you into granting, have gained access to your private repositories, stolen sensitive information, and even altered your code. The worst part? They might have done all of this without you ever realizing it until it’s too late. The Growing Threat: Fake Security Alerts and OAuth Hijacking This type of attack is not just theoretical—it's already happening. Security experts have recently uncovered a widespread scam in which attackers are using fake security alerts to trick GitHub users into granting OAuth permissions. These fake alerts often appear as if they’re legitimate security messages from GitHub, creating a sense of urgency and convincing users to authorize malicious apps that hijack their accounts. According to a recent report by BleepingComputer, these phishing attempts are specifically designed to exploit the trust users place in security notifications. The attackers leverage OAuth apps to impersonate security alerts, gaining access to user accounts and repositories once the user clicks on... --- ### Achieving DORA Compliance: A Practical Guide for Financial Organizations - Published: 2025-03-24 - Modified: 2025-04-03 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/achieving-dora-compliance-a-practical-guide-for-financial-organizations/ - Categories: Compliance, Data Security, IAM, Identity Radicals, Identity Security, Industry Events, Technical Thought Leadership, Thought Leadership - Tags: Compliance, DORA, Gartner, IAM, Identity Security, ITC, Mike Towers, Risk Management Executive Summary The European Union's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), taking effect January 17, 2025, represents a significant shift in how financial organizations must approach Information and Communication Technology (ICT) security and operational resilience. As financial firms face increasing cyber threats and digital dependencies, DORA establishes a comprehensive framework for risk management, incident reporting, resilience testing, and third-party oversight. While DORA specifically applies to EU financial organizations, similar frameworks are emerging worldwide, such as the NIST Cybersecurity Framework in the US. Modern identity security platforms can provide financial organizations with the capabilities needed to meet DORA's requirements while strengthening their overall security posture. Veza's identity security platform, through its Access Graph foundation and comprehensive control capabilities, enables organizations to maintain continuous visibility into their identity landscape, automate governance processes, and effectively manage third-party risks. DORA Requirements Overview DORA mandates four key pillars of compliance for financial organizations: ICT risk management and governance Incident reporting and classification Digital operational resilience testing Third-party risk management and oversight ICT encompasses the broad range of technologies and tools used for processing and transmitting information in the financial sector. DORA focuses on ICT risks and resilience because the financial sector is critically dependent on these technologies for operations, data management, and service delivery. DORA also applies to non-EU financial firms providing services within the EU, making it crucial for international companies to stay compliant. For more information on DORA, the following pages offer an effective summary of requirements, potential impact, and intended scope. https://www. pwc.... --- ### From Access Oversights to Audit Excellence: How Veza and Legacy IGA Secure SharePoint Environments > Struggling with SharePoint access control and audits? See how Veza’s near real-time security insights compare to Legacy IGA’s compliance-driven approach in real-world scenarios—helping you choose the right solution for your organization. - Published: 2025-03-11 - Modified: 2025-03-24 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/sharepoint-security-veza-vs-legacy-iga/ - Categories: Identity Security, IGA, Product, Technical Thought Leadership - Tags: Identity Security, Legacy IGA, Use Case, Veza In today’s fast-paced digital world, organizations rely heavily on SharePoint for collaboration and document management. However, with great functionality comes equally significant security challenges. In this blog post, we explore a day in the life of two security professionals as they confront and resolve SharePoint access control and audit issues—comparing the agile, real-time capabilities of Veza with the detailed, compliance-focused approach of Legacy IGA. Meet the Engineers Alicia – Senior Information Security EngineerWorking at a highly regulated financial institution, Alicia is responsible for ensuring that sensitive financial documents and client data remain secure within SharePoint. With tight regulatory requirements, her day demands constant vigilance over access permissions and audit trails, as even a minor oversight could lead to significant compliance issues. Mark – IT Security ManagerAt a dynamic tech firm, Mark manages the central SharePoint environment that powers internal collaboration. Balancing user productivity with security, Mark’s role revolves around periodic audits and maintaining structured compliance reports. His organization prefers a methodical, scheduled approach to uncover and remediate potential vulnerabilities. Though their organizations differ, both Alicia and Mark face a common challenge: protecting SharePoint from internal misconfigurations and external threats, all while ensuring seamless operations. Incident 1: Unauthorized Permission Escalation – When More Is Too Much 8:20 AM – The Unexpected ElevationAlicia receives a Veza alert in her security dashboard: an employee in one department has been inadvertently granted administrative rights to several sensitive SharePoint libraries. The alert, flagged as an unusual permission change, provides Alicia with full context—who made the... --- ### How Veza Simplifies SOX Compliance: Automating Access Controls & SoD Monitoring - Published: 2025-03-07 - Modified: 2025-03-11 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/how-veza-simplies-sox-compliance-automating-access-controls-sod-monitoring/ - Categories: Identity Security Executive Summary SOX compliance remains a challenge even after two decades, with IT-related failures and Segregation of Duties (SoD) issues accounting for a significant share of Material Weaknesses. Veza simplifies SOX compliance with automated access controls, real-time SoD monitoring, and audit-ready reporting to reduce risk while cutting down audit preparation time. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) was enacted in 2002—a time when CDs dominated music, Tesla had yet to be founded, and babies born that year are now college graduates. Given that public companies have had over two decades to adapt, one might expect SOX compliance to be second nature by now. Yet, even the most seasoned organizations continue to face challenges. SOX deficiencies fall into three categories, ranked by severity: Deficiency (D), Significant Deficiency (SD), and Material Weakness (MW). A Material Weakness (MW) is a serious red flag, signalling that a company’s financial reporting has a reasonable risk of material misstatement. Auditors also have been scrutinizing companies' cybersecurity measures, investigating data breaches during the SOX audit period, and assessing their impact on financial reporting. A significant data breach may also lead to material weakness. This is the kind of thing that makes investors sweat and auditors cry.   A Workiva study found that companies disclosing MWs see their stock prices drop an average of 6% in 3 months, 11% in 6 months, and 19% in a year. Yet, despite knowing the risks, “Of the 3,549 annual reports filed in the 2022/2023 year, 242 companies (7%) disclosed MWs in their filings... --- ### The Evolution of Identity and Security at Workday: Insights from CISO Josh DeFigueiredo - Published: 2025-02-27 - Modified: 2025-04-16 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/the-evolution-of-identity-and-security-at-workday-insights-from-ciso-josh-defigueiredo/ - Categories: Identity Radicals In the latest episode of our podcast, we had the privilege of speaking with Josh DeFigueiredo, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of Workday. With 15 years of experience leading security at the HR and financial software giant, Josh shared invaluable insights into how identity security has evolved, the challenges of implementing least privilege at scale, and the future of identity security in an increasingly complex digital landscape. https://youtu. be/L_bd8ihCkas? si=7rKm73d_uXdUs3jQ The Changing Security Landscape Fifteen years ago, when Workday was still a small startup, the security landscape was vastly different. The rise of cloud computing, AI, and machine learning has reshaped the way companies approach security. Josh emphasized that identity has become the front line of security, stating, "Hackers aren’t hacking in, they’re logging in. " As cyber threats have become more sophisticated, organizations like Workday have had to evolve rapidly to protect sensitive HR data for millions of employees globally. Why Identity is Workday’s Top Security Priority Managing identity security at scale is no small feat, particularly for a company handling sensitive financial and HR data. According to Josh, identity has become the most critical security concern for CISOs today. He noted, "If you’re a CISO and identity isn’t a major priority, you’re either doing something that most CISOs aren’t doing or you’re missing the mark. " With attackers increasingly targeting identity credentials, ensuring robust identity governance is essential for preventing breaches. The Challenge of Implementing Least Privilege at Scale One of the most pressing security challenges Workday... --- ### What is NIST Compliance? Guide & Checklist [2025] > Learn about NIST compliance, its importance, and how to achieve it. This guide covers NIST frameworks, common challenges, and best practices. - Published: 2025-02-13 - Modified: 2025-02-13 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/nist-compliance/ - Categories: Data Security, Identity Security For many organizations, NIST compliance is an essential part of a resilient cybersecurity strategy. Its numerous cybersecurity frameworks—from the NIST 800 series to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF)—are trusted resources for identifying, detecting, and responding to cyber threats.   However, achieving NIST compliance isn’t a simple task. The complexity and comprehensive nature of these standards often pose significant challenges for organizations, especially those with limited resources or expertise. For instance, many organizations struggle with NIST’s identity security requirements, which mandate controlling user permissions and access for compliance.   This article explores what NIST compliance entails, who is required to follow it, and the benefits of following these standards. It provides a detailed NIST compliance checklist, discusses common challenges organizations face, shares best practices, and compares NIST with other popular security frameworks like ISO, SOC 2, CIS, and COBIT.   Whether your organization is just getting started with NIST compliance or looking to update its approach, this guide can offer valuable insights and practical steps to improve your cybersecurity strategy.   What is NIST compliance? NIST compliance means following security standards and best practices set by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). These include popular frameworks such as NIST 800-171 for protecting Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), NIST 800-53 for security and privacy controls for federal information systems, and the NIST CSF for managing and reducing cybersecurity risks.   Ultimately, these guidelines are designed to improve the security and privacy of data and systems and are especially important for organizations... --- ### Veza Product Updates - February - Published: 2025-02-13 - Modified: 2025-04-16 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/february-product-updates/ - Categories: Company, Identity Security, Product Welcome to the monthly Veza product update! Recent releases have included a range of new and enhanced capabilities for access visibility and access intelligence products, enriched user experience, and enterprise-scale access governance across your environments. This document offers a summary of the latest features, enhancements, and usability improvements across the platform, with highlights including: Non-Human Identities (NHI): New product module with actionable dashboards, owner accountability features, and extended monitoring across AWS, Azure, and Salesforce to identify and remediate NHI security risks. Access Visibility: Improved resource ownership tracking with attribute filters and saved queries, enhanced conditional access filtering, and Query Builder improvements for exposing critical access relationships. Access Intelligence: Operationalized dashboards with new “Veza Actions” options, enhanced query filters for ownership tracking, and improved SoD risk management with owner assignment capabilities. Access Reviews: Improved administrative interfaces, the ability for Access Intelligence to launch 1-step reviews, and new integration with Lifecycle Management - launch reviews on-demand as part of Lifecycle Management workflows. Lifecycle Management: Automated identity governance with draft Access Profiles, property overrides for special cases, and integrated access reviews for personnel transitions. Access Request: Multi-level approvals and a redesigned and more intuitive catalog experience for requesting access. Integrations: Improved management and integration insights with redesigned integration pages, visual entity breakdowns, and expanded support for MongoDB, Kubernetes, Dropbox, and other key platforms. See the sections below for more details about specific changes in each product area, and contact your Veza representative with any questions or your valued feedback. Non-Human Identity Security Expanded... --- ### Modern Access Request Processes: Best Practices & What to Avoid in 2025 > Learn access request best practices to minimize security risks, prevent data breaches, and manage permissions across your organization. - Published: 2025-02-03 - Modified: 2025-02-13 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/access-requests-best-practices/ - Categories: Data Security, Identity Security Managing access requests has become more challenging than ever before. Today, the average business uses more than 1,000 apps—each potentially requiring its own process for approving or denying user access. For many businesses, managing access requests across the entire tech stack is daunting.   Without a strategic access request process in place, it’s easy for privilege creep or orphaned accounts to put sensitive information at risk. Compliance requirements for data security are also on the rise. As more regulators implement strict security requirements, accurate and efficient access request management will no longer be optional.   This article explores best practices for managing access requests and what to avoid. Whether you’re beginning to establish an access request management framework or looking to refine an existing process, this article provides valuable insights into streamlining workflows, improving security, and maintaining compliance. What Are Access Requests? Access requests are when someone in a company—like an employee or a contractor—asks for additional access to specific resources like apps, data, or files. Access requests are essential to governance programs, ensuring people have the tools they need to do their jobs while maintaining secure and appropriate access controls. For example, think about when you need access to a Google Doc. If the document is restricted, you’ll see a message asking you to request access. When you submit that request, the document owner reviews it to decide whether you should be granted access based on your role or the information you need. This simple process helps secure sensitive... --- ### Veza Product Updates - January - Published: 2025-01-31 - Modified: 2025-04-01 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/veza-product-updates-january/ - Categories: Product Welcome to the January product update. Our recent releases have focused on improvements to dashboard functionality, enhanced monitoring capabilities, and streamlined workflows across the platform, including: Access Intelligence: New out-of-the-box dashboards for privileged access, service account governance, and identity insights, plus enhanced dashboard actions and improved alert management. Access Monitoring: New BigQuery activity monitoring with Over Provisioned Access Score calculations for users and service accounts. Access Reviews: Introduction of 1-Step Access Reviews (Early Access), customizable email templates, and improved notification management. Access Visibility: New Path Selection feature in Graph search for precise relationship exploration and filtering. Lifecycle Management: Enhanced policy version history with restore capabilities and new action grace periods. Integrations: New Qualys and Microsoft Teams integrations, plus enhanced support for Azure AD, Coupa, GitHub, and Oracle EBS. Veza Platform: Introduction of the CSV Manager Role and improved event subscription management. See each section for more details about specific changes in each product, and please contact your Veza representative with any questions or feedback. Access Intelligence Enhancements New out-of-the-box dashboards: New dashboards are available featuring curated detection queries, designed to be shared across teams for visibility into important trends: Privileged Access Dashboard: Privileged Access Insights across cloud environments, SaaS, IdP, and integrated databases. Service Account Governance: Insights into Service Accounts across Active Directory, AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, Okta, Salesforce, and ServiceNow IDP Identity Insights: Identity insights across identity provider identities and groups, and local identities. Okta Activity Report: Insights into Okta User, Admin, and App activity (requires Activity Monitoring). Dashboard... --- ### Veza Access AI - Applications of Gen AI for Identity Security Use Cases - Published: 2025-01-21 - Modified: 2025-03-30 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/veza-access-ai-applications-of-gen-ai-for-identity-security-use-cases/ - Categories: Identity Security, Product - Tags: Featured Introduction Veza has consistently pushed the boundaries of innovation in access and identity security. With the introduction of Access AI, Veza has revolutionized how organizations uncover hidden access insights by combining the power of Generative AI with our Access Graph and Access Intelligence products. Access AI enables users to express their intent and desired insights using natural language, making the process intuitive and user-friendly. Unlike older, rule-based NLP approaches, which often struggle with the complexity and nuance of identity relationships, Access AI leverages context-driven techniques and domain intelligence to deliver more accurate, actionable results. In this blog post, we will dive deep into the inner workings of Veza Access AI, exploring the challenges it addresses and the techniques employed to deliver meaningful results in a simple, digestible form to our customers. Fundamentally, this democratizes the Veza products, putting a powerful analytical tool in the hands of business teams and making identity security an operational reality for the entire organization.   The Complexity of Identity and Access Relationships In the world of Identity Security, understanding and managing identity and access relationships can be a daunting task. Picture this: in order to reduce the potential blast radius of compromised accounts, an analyst needs to identify inactive identities that still have access to S3 buckets. Seems simple enough, right? But the reality is far more complex. A single identity might be connected to hundreds of S3 buckets through a tangled web of access paths involving Okta users, Active Directory (AD) groups, and AWS... --- ### Beyond the Buzzwords: Identity, Zero Trust, and Digital Transformation - Published: 2025-01-16 - Modified: 2025-01-29 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/identity-radicals-beyond-the-buzzwords/ - Categories: Identity Radicals In Episode 7 of Veza’s Identity Radicals Podcast, Mike Towers (Chief Security & Trust Officer, Veza) and Sam Curry (Global VP & CISO, Zscaler) explore identity security in the modern threat landscape. These two practitioners discuss how Identity is foundational to both security and business agility. Radical thinking leads to radical security. Mike Towers https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=HCuheOTIxpM Watch an informative discussion on: Zero Trust Evolution: Once about network segmentation, Zero Trust now centers on identity as the core element, essential for hybrid and remote environments. Identity as a Business Enabler: Beyond security, identity governance accelerates digital transformation and SaaS adoption. Challenges: Managing machine identities, adapting legacy systems, and balancing security with user experience are key hurdles. Future Outlook: AI promises to enhance identity security with better access decisions and anomaly detection, but foundational processes and education remain critical. Watch the full episode of Beyond the Buzzwords on the Identity Radicals YouTube channel. Subscribe on YouTube to stay up-to-date with future CISO-to-CISO conversations.   --- ### Guide to Non-Human Identity Security  - Published: 2025-01-15 - Modified: 2025-02-19 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/non-human-identity-security/ - Categories: Identity Security As organizations lean more on non-human identities (NHIs)–the digital credentials that allow devices, applications, and automated systems to operate independently–securing them has become a critical priority. NHIs are made up of machine identities, service accounts, API models and more. Although they drive machine-to-machine communication and automated processes, they also create new security challenges that many companies struggle to manage. Only 15% of organizations feel highly confident in their ability to prevent attacks targeting NHIs, while 69% express concerns about these risks. This awareness highlights a serious gap: while many companies recognize the importance of NHI security, they often lack the tools and strategies to protect against NHI-related threats.   This article explores what NHIs are, why they matter, and how organizations can better secure them. It covers the unique challenges in NHI management and outlines practical steps to address them so your organization can confidently mitigate risks and meet regulatory requirements.   What Are Non-Human Identities? A non-human identity is a digital ID that automated systems—like devices, software, or services—use to communicate securely without human input. For example, when a cloud app automatically backs up your files to a storage service, a non-human identity lets the two systems recognize each other and complete the task without any human intervention. These identities are essential for machine-to-machine communication, ensuring that only the right systems can interact. Some common examples include service accounts, system accounts, and application accounts used by devices, virtual machines, and cloud-based services. In platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS),... --- ### The Five Tenets of Next-Gen IGA - Published: 2025-01-14 - Modified: 2025-02-03 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/the-five-tenets-of-next-gen-iga/ - Categories: Identity Radicals, Industry News, Thought Leadership If you work in identity or security, you already know that IGA stands for identity governance and administration. And you know that these tools have been around for a long time. But the world has changed, and the identity attack surface has ballooned. Traditional IGA tools have blind spots because they rely on a data model of directories, users and groups, built for an era of on-premises architectures and fully-trusted networks. They assume that employees are listed in a single source of truth and that role and group definitions accurately reflect the permissions associated with those roles. But now, with the complexities of modern, cloud-centric environments and identity-based attacks a near daily occurrence, it’s clear that something is broken, and it’s time for a fresh approach to securing access in the enterprise. It’s Hard to See Access The world has changed. Access has decentralized to a point where security teams cannot possibly understand, let alone enforce, common-sense policies for the business. Years ago you might have been a Microsoft shop—using Active Directory as your enterprise directory, with Windows file shares and SharePoint to store files, some Microsoft SQL Server, and it was all in your data center. Now, the landscape is vastly different. The average enterprise has 364 SaaS apps and uses 1,295 cloud services, creating a fragmented ecosystem. Organizations rely on many different vendors providing identity attributes, data stores, cloud platforms, and apps. Today, the average organization uses 1. 75 identity platforms, while 34% of identities are created outside... --- ### 10 top privileged access management (PAM) software solutions for 2025 - Published: 2025-01-02 - Modified: 2025-03-04 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/pam-privileged-access-management-software/ - Categories: Identity Security According to The IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2024, there was a 71% increase year over year in the volume of attacks using valid credentials. For the first time in history, abusing valid accounts has become the most common entry point for cybercriminals into victim environments.   Privileged access management (PAM) software addresses this risk by restricting access to critical systems and sensitive data. Additionally, PAM software monitors and logs all privileged activities, enabling organizations to detect and respond swiftly to unauthorized actions or suspicious behavior. In this article, you’ll discover how PAM software functions and explore the top PAM software to safeguard your organization from both internal and external threats. What is Privileged Access? According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, privileged access refers to a user who is authorized and trusted to perform functions that ordinary users are not authorized to perform. Basically, privileged access is special access or permissions beyond that of a standard/non-privileged user.   In organizations, these permissions are typically given to senior managers, system administrators, and IT personnel, authorizing them to bypass and override certain security restraints and perform high-level tasks like installing new software or configuring business systems.   What is Privileged Access Management? Privileged access management is an identity security solution designed to control and monitor users with special or elevated access to critical parts of computer systems or networks. These users, known as “privileged users,” can access sensitive information, change system settings, and perform critical tasks. They include administrators,... --- ### Veza Product Updates - December 2024 - Published: 2024-12-30 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/veza-product-updates-december-2024/ - Categories: Product Welcome to the December product update! Releases this month included significant changes across the platform, including: Access Intelligence: Scheduled report exports, enhanced report filtering, and design and usability improvements for NHI, Query Builder, and Separation of Duties. Access Reviews: Digest notification customization and improved review exports. Lifecycle Management: Support for Azure Directory Extensions, Schema Extensions, and Distribution Lists, draft mode for Access Profiles and Policies. Integrations: New Artifactory integration, Azure enhancements including support for Secure Scores, Azure Identity Protection, and Entra ID Conditional Access Policies, and extended support for Privacera, Oracle Fusion Cloud, and Oracle JDE. Open Authorization API: The Custom Identity Provider template now supports modeling IdP application assignments for IdP users and groups. Veza Platform: Administrators can now configure event subscriptions and alerts for some or all platform activity. Please read on for more details about specific changes in each product area, and contact your Veza representative with any questions or feedback. Access Intelligence Enhancements Report Export Scheduling: You can now export any custom or built-in report on a schedule in PDF or CSV format. When enabled, the recipient will receive a secure link to access Veza and download the file. To schedule exports, open a report to view details. Click Export > Schedule export for later, and choose the recipient, date, and time for recurring emails. Veza administrators can manage allowed recipients by configuring the email domain whitelist on the Administration > System Settings page. Report Filtering with AWS Account Groups: Account Groups now offer advanced options... --- ### 8 Ways AI is Transforming Access Control in 2025 - Published: 2024-12-20 - Modified: 2025-02-25 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/ai-access-control/ - Categories: Identity Security Managing access control is more essential than ever as businesses become increasingly reliant on digital platforms and cloud services to operate. But securing these systems can be challenging, especially for companies using hundreds–or even thousands–of applications. Today, many organizations are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) for cybersecurity, with 90% of organizations already using AI to strengthen their defenses.   The combination of AI with access control and identity management marks the next evolution in security. By combining AI and Generative AI (GenAI), organizations can revolutionize how they manage permissions, reduce vulnerabilities, and improve their overall identity security posture.   What is AI in access control? Access control ensures the right people can access the right resources at the right time. It follows the principle of least privilege, the concept that users should only get enough access to do their jobs—and nothing more. Restricting access keeps data, systems, and intellectual property safe.   While this concept isn’t new, it is more important than ever. The proliferation of cloud services and interconnected infrastructure make managing permissions more complex. Now, AI and machine learning (ML) are transforming how organizations manage access control by helping them simplify and improve these processes.   How artificial intelligence works in access control  Businesses across industries are beginning to use AI access control software that combines machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) for smarter, faster decisions that protect data and improve the user experience. AI access control software can help your organization: Monitor access across systems–including... --- ### Demonstrating PCI DSS 4.0 Compliance with Veza's Identity Security Platform - Published: 2024-12-12 - Modified: 2024-12-13 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/demonstrating-pci-dss-4-0-compliance-with-vezas-identity-security-platform/ - Categories: Identity Security Executive Summary As organizations transition to PCI DSS 4. 0, managing access control and demonstrating compliance has become increasingly complex.  Veza's identity security platform provides comprehensive capabilities to meet these challenges, particularly in addressing crucial access control requirements and periodic access reviews. Introduction PCI DSS 4. 0 introduces enhanced requirements for access control, user identification, and monitoring. This whitepaper explores how Veza's platform can help organizations meet these requirements effectively. PCI Control Requirements Veza's platform, which focuses on identity security, access control, and resource-level permissions, can significantly aid in meeting several PCI DSS 4. 0 requirements related to access control and least privilege. The specific PCI control requirements that are particularly relevant will be outlined below. Access Control Requirements Requirement 7: Restrict Access to System Components and Cardholder Data Requirement 7. 1: Define, document, and implement access control policies and procedures. Requirement 7. 2: Implement an access control system(s) for systems and components. Requirement 7. 2. 1: Ensure access to system components and data is restricted to only those individuals whose job requires such access. Requirement 7. 2. 4: Assign access based on individual personnel's job classification and function. NOTE: Given the criticality and consistent audit scrutiny this control often receives, more details on this requirement will be further detailed in a later section. Requirement 7. 2. 5: Implement least privileges for user IDs and other identifiers, allowing only the necessary privileges for their job responsibilities. Requirement 8: Identify Users and Authenticate Access to System Components Requirement 8. 2: Implement... --- ### Complete SailPoint Review & Top Alternatives [2024] - Published: 2024-12-11 - Modified: 2025-03-04 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/sailpoint-review-and-alternatives/ - Categories: Identity Security Choosing the right identity security platform for your organization can be challenging—especially considering the significant rise in identity-related security incidents.   SailPoint, an identity security platform, offers identity security solutions for enterprises. However, a closer look at SailPoint reveals that it may not be a suitable choice in today’s complex and modern environment. This article provides an in-depth review of SailPoint, including its features, pricing, and key product reviews. Additionally, we highlight some of the top alternatives to SailPoint so you can make an informed choice that best suits your organization’s requirements. What is SailPoint?   SailPoint is an enterprise identity security solution that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate access management. It aims to grant the appropriate level of access to the right identities at the right time. The SailPoint platform integrates with your existing systems and workflows, allowing organizations to view various identities and their access rights. The company currently offers several products including:  SailPoint Identity Security Cloud (formerly known as SailPoint IdentityNow): This solution manages and secures access to critical data and applications for enterprise identities.   SailPoint IdentityIQ (IIQ): This solution provides lifecycle and compliance management for identity security, automating processes such as provisioning, access requests, access certification, and separation of duties.   SailPoint review Here’s an overview of SailPoint, its pros and cons, pricing, and customer reviews.   What is SailPoint used for? Source: https://www. softwareadvice. com/identity-management/sailpoint-profile/ Here are the primary functionalities of SailPoint: User Lifecycle Management: Automates the process of onboarding and... --- ### Posture of Access, 3 Pillars of Least Privilege - Published: 2024-12-10 - Modified: 2025-01-29 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/identity-radicals-posture-of-access-3-pillars-of-least-privilege/ - Categories: Identity Radicals In the latest Identity Radicals podcast episode, Veza’s Chief Security & Trust Officer, Mike Towers discusses the challenges of achieving least privilege with Blackstone CSO, Adam Fletcher. Together, they explore managing access in today’s hybrid and cloud environments in Episode 6, Posture of Access and the Three Pillars of Least Privilege. https://youtu. be/w0iL_ar2Ptk With identity now the frontline of security, Adam emphasizes the need to understand who has access, what they can access, and the importance of agile access decisions. Security leaders must aim for least privilege with least friction. Adam Fletcher (CSO, Blackstone) Mike Towers reinforced the importance of securing non-human identities, which are growing exponentially in modern enterprises. Security teams must leverage automation to manage access for both human and non-human identities across diverse environments, reduce risk and improve operational efficiency. Watch the full episode of Posture of Access and the Three Pillars of Least Privilege on the Identity Radicals YouTube channel. Subscribe on YouTube to stay up-to-date with future CISO-to-CISO conversations.   --- ### Access Request Management: A Complete Guide for 2025 - Published: 2024-12-06 - Modified: 2025-02-07 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/access-request-management/ - Categories: Identity Security Access requests are a daily part of any business, whether it’s employees needing access to tools or systems. But without a process in place to manage them, access requests can quickly get out of hand, leading to identity security risks like data leaks or unauthorized access. According to IBM’s 2024 report, it takes more than 260 days on average to identify and contain attacks that take advantage of employees and employee access.   Effective access request management ensures that the right people have the right access at the right time—without unnecessary delays or excessive permissions that could lead to breaches. This article explores how access requests work, the risks of not managing them, and the best ways to streamline the process. What Are Access Requests? An access request is a formal request for permission to use a specific tool, application, or set of data within a company. In most organizations, access requests happen daily, whether it’s a marketing employee needing access to a project management platform or a contractor requesting access to a secure database. Employees, freelancers, contractors, and even temporary workers need to request additional access to certain resources to do their jobs well. Traditional Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) tools, however, can have blind spots. They rely on outdated models built for on-premise systems and trusted networks, often focusing only on users and roles. These tools struggle to capture the true picture of permissions across today’s complex, multi-cloud environments.   Without a way to visualize and monitor an... --- ### Introducing Veza Access Requests: Automated, Policy-Driven Access at Scale - Published: 2024-12-03 - Modified: 2024-12-03 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/introducing-veza-access-requests-automated-policy-driven-access-at-scale/ - Categories: Product Introduction Balancing security and productivity while ensuring employees have the appropriate access to resources is a critical challenge for modern enterprises. The growing complexity of systems, roles, and permissions has placed an unsustainable burden on IT and identity teams, who often lack the tools and context needed to assign the right role with the least privilege required to meet business objectives. These challenges inspired us to create Veza Access Requests - a solution designed to automate and streamline the access request process. By integrating powerful automation with data-driven insights about permissions, the purest form of access, Veza empowers organizations to grant access faster, ensure least privilege, and maintain security without compromising agility. The Broken System of Manual Access Provisioning For years, IT teams have been overwhelmed by the inefficiencies of manual access provisioning. The process is fraught with challenges - many stemming from the sheer volume and complexity of roles, each customizable within its respective system. IT teams spend countless hours researching role capabilities, attempting to match requests to the appropriate permissions. This often results in two undesirable outcomes: roles that are over-permissioned, introducing unnecessary risk, or significant delays that frustrate end users. The impact of these inefficiencies goes beyond IT teams. End users frequently experience delays in receiving the access they need, disrupting their productivity. Managers, meanwhile, struggle with limited visibility into their teams' permissions, leaving them ill-equipped to proactively manage access. Together, these issues perpetuate a cycle of excessive permissions, rubber-stamped approvals, and growing security risks - highlighting... --- ### SOX Compliance Checklist: Your Sarbanes-Oxley Guide for 2025 - Published: 2024-12-02 - Modified: 2024-12-02 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/sox-compliance-checklist/ - Categories: Identity Security Protecting organizations’ financial information from cyberattacks, insider threats, and security breaches is becoming increasingly challenging. In 2023 alone, there was a 72% increase in data breaches compared to 2021. As security incidents continue to grow in frequency and severity, organizations must secure their financial and other sensitive data to avoid the financial and reputational consequences of a cyberattack.   But for some companies, protecting this information isn’t simply important for good business practices—it’s mandatory.   Under the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act, publicly-traded organizations must prove they have the appropriate internal controls in place to ensure accurate financial reporting, protect sensitive financial data, reduce the risk of fraud and insider threats, and improve auditability and accountability. Although complex, SOX compliance is required for all publicly traded companies in the U. S. , and understanding its nuances is important not only to comply but to proactively shape the future of cybersecurity.   This guide explores the ins and outs of SOX compliance, including who must comply, the benefits and challenges, best practices, and a comprehensive checklist so your business can get SOX compliant as quickly as possible.   What is SOX compliance? Maintaining SOX compliance requires implementing the appropriate procedures to meet the Act’s specific requirements, such as maintaining financial records, establishing internal controls, conducting regular audits, and protecting against data tampering. This United States federal law was created to protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures. It was enacted in response to several significant financial scandals involving large... --- ### Veza Product Updates – November 2024 - Published: 2024-11-30 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/veza-product-updates-november-2024/ - Categories: Product Welcome to the November product update! Our recent releases have delivered significant enhancements across Veza's product suite, with highlights including: Access Intelligence: New risk mitigation burndown charts for tracking resolution trends, and comprehensive dashboard improvements including AWS Risks, Azure AD Risks, and Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM). Access Reviews: Major usability improvements to the reviewer interface, enhanced orchestration capabilities, and new configuration options for review expiration and due dates. Separation of Duties (SoD): Now accessible from the main navigation menu, new overview page, and enhanced SoD query visualization capabilities. Lifecycle Management: Access Profile Intelligence for automated and improved Access Profile creation, lookup tables for attribute transformation, and integration support for Oracle HCM, Exchange Online, Ivanti Neurons, and Oracle Fusion Cloud. Veza Integrations: New integrations for Ivanti Neurons, Device42, Cisco Duo, Zoom, and Exchange Online, plus enhancements to existing integrations including support for Dynamic Data Masking in Snowflake. Please read on for more details about specific changes in each product area, and contact your Veza representative with any questions or valued feedback. Access Intelligence Risk Mitigation Burndown Charts Last month, we introduced support for assigning owners to individual risks for remediation. Now, you can use Veza to track the resolution of risks over time using burndown charts on the Access Risks page. These new trend charts track both new and resolved risks over the chosen time range. Dashboards and Reports Enhancements New and improved dashboards are now enabled by default, including: AWS Risks: Monitoring IAM privileges, access keys, MFA status, and... --- ### Groundhog day in identity security - Published: 2024-11-21 - Modified: 2025-01-29 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/identity-radicals-groundhog-day-in-identity-security/ - Categories: Identity Radicals In the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape, some truths remain constant: managing risk, staying ahead of threats, and adapting to technological and regulatory shifts are non-negotiable for any security leader. If you’re a CISO or security professional looking for actionable insights to navigate these challenges, Veza’s podcast, Identity Radicals, is your must-listen resource. In the latest episode, Veza’s Chief Security & Trust Officer, Mike Towers, sits down with Anthony Belfiore, Chief Strategy Officer at Wiz, to explore the enduring and emerging dynamics of identity security. This candid, technology-agnostic discussion offers a fresh perspective on issues that continue to shape the industry—even as technologies and tactics evolve. https://youtu. be/l-iUS2qVNUk? si=AC2mASC3rLWuSAWu The past 25 years have witnessed dramatic technological shifts—from on-premise systems to multi-cloud environments, from static access control to dynamic, AI-enhanced identity management. Yet, certain risks remain stubbornly persistent.   Although identity used to be all about password security, it is now the foundation upon which organizations build strategies to achieve and sustain least privilege. Even with the massive transition to the cCloud, similar identity challenges remain, leaving security teams asking the same question they were asking 25 years ago: How do you protect your data, your people and your processes? Identity is the most unifying constant in our careers Anthony Belfiore (CSO, Wiz) What is Cloud and SaaS doing to access control? Access control strategies have evolved in response to multi-cloud and SaaS environments, but the scale of identities and their associated permissions in the modern enterprise makes solving the access puzzle... --- ### SailPoint vs Saviynt vs Veza [2025 Review] - Published: 2024-11-15 - Modified: 2025-02-19 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/sailpoint-vs-saviynt/ - Categories: Identity Security SailPoint, Saviynt, and Veza are three prominent players in the identity security space. Each offers solutions for managing and securing user access to applications and data. Today, identity security is arguably one of the most important barriers between your organization’s sensitive information and cybercriminals. According to Expel’s Annual Threat Report, identity-based incidents accounted for 64% of all investigated in 2023—a volume increase of 144% from 2022. The right identity security strategy can significantly reduce the risk of security breaches and ensure that your organization stays compliant with regulatory requirements. When considering using an identity security solution, it’s important to consider factors such as ease of implementation, scalability, accuracy and whether it can manage on-premise and cloud environments.   This article takes a closer look at SailPoint, Saviynt, and Veza, exploring their features, pros, and cons so you can determine the best fit for your organization’s identity security and management needs.   SailPoint vs Saviynt vs Veza Although SailPoint, Saviynt, and Veza are leading contenders in the identity security space, they’re not the same. We’ll provide an overview of each platform, highlighting key features and benefits to help you understand what sets them apart.   What is Veza? Veza is the identity security company designed to tackle one of cybersecurity’s most challenging questions: Who can take what action on what data? While this might seem straightforward, the complexity of today’s enterprise environments makes it difficult for most organizations to answer this question accurately.   Veza’s platform is built to provide a... --- ### Operationalizing Modern Identity Security: A CISO's Perspective on Value Creation and Sustainable Growth - Published: 2024-11-11 - Modified: 2024-11-11 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/operationalizing-modern-identity-security-a-cisos-perspective-on-value-creation-and-sustainable-growth/ - Categories: Identity Security The past two decades of enterprise security have revealed a consistent pattern: promising technologies often fall short of their full potential – not due to technical limitations, but because of gaps in organizational operationalization. In today's complex identity security landscape, this lesson remains critically relevant. The Reality Check The promise of modern identity security platforms is undeniably compelling. The ability to see, understand, and control access across an entire technology stack – from legacy systems to cloud services – represents a powerful capability. However, visibility alone doesn't solve problems; it often simply makes them more apparent. This reality drives a common concern among security leaders: "Won't enhanced visibility just create more work for already stretched teams? " While this concern is understandable, it overlooks a fundamental truth: the work already exists. The risks are present whether visible or not. The real question isn't whether to take on the work – it's how to approach it intelligently and efficiently. Building Value Through Phases Successful operationalization requires a methodical approach that builds value incrementally. Each phase builds upon previous achievements, creating a foundation for sustainable security growth. Key phases typically include: Initial Visibility and Quick Wins Deploy core integrations with major platforms Focus on immediate risk reduction through baseline alerting Address the obvious issues: dormant privileged accounts, toxic access combinations Intelligence-driven Governance Integrate with HR systems and identity providers Implement automated access reviews and certifications Establish proper joiner/mover/leaver workflows Proactive Risk Management Develop custom integrations for unique business needs Implement proactive risk... --- ### What is Privileged Access Management? [2025 Guide] - Published: 2024-11-09 - Modified: 2025-02-25 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/privileged-access-management/ - Categories: Identity Security Privileged accounts are everywhere in modern business environments. Privileged access enables organizations to operate within their environment more efficiently by giving certain users special access or abilities within various systems.   Unfortunately, these privileged accounts are more attractive targets to cybercriminals. Over the last decade or so, multiple security breaches have been linked to privileged access abuse—from breaches at Yahoo! to the attack on Ukraine’s power grid and the widely publicized Uber breach. Ultimately, each incident involved attackers exploiting privileged credentials to plan, coordinate, and carry out attacks.   Fortunately, organizations have traditionally had tools to help protect themselves from these types of attacks, including privileged access management (PAM) solutions. Privileged access management is designed to protect against the threats posed by credential theft and privilege misuse by enforcing strict access controls and monitoring the activities of privileged users. PAM systems restrict access to critical systems and sensitive data, ensuring that only authorized users with verified credentials can gain access. Additionally, these systems monitor and log all privileged activities so organizations can quickly detect and respond to unauthorized attempts or suspicious behavior.   But PAM tools also have their limitations, particularly when securing organizations with modern, distributed environments. These limitations include difficulties managing and monitoring access across various cloud platforms, handling the scale and complexity of contemporary IT infrastructure, and adapting to the dynamic nature of user roles and permissions. Consequently, PAM tools alone are no longer enough to confidently manage and secure privileged access. This guide explains what PAM... --- ### 12 Top IGA Software Vendors [2025 Guide] - Published: 2024-11-08 - Modified: 2025-03-04 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/iga-software-vendors/ - Categories: Identity Security Identity governance and administration (IGA) solutions help organizations oversee human and non-human access using a policy-driven approach to manage and control access rights. They combine the identity and access information scattered across an organization’s IT systems to improve security and fulfill compliance obligations. Even as data and data repositories grow, identity governance and administration ensure that users have appropriate access levels to data and that managers/system admins are aware of anomalies in access patterns such as expired permissions. In this guide, we’ll explore identity governance and administration, explaining the importance of having IGA software and some of the top software vendors in the IGA space. What Is Identity Governance and Administration? Identity governance and administration is the practice of managing user identities—credentials, permissions, and roles—and their access across the organization. It is built on providing enterprise-wide visibility into user activity usage data and access rights.   IGA combines two identity management components—identity governance and identity administration–to produce a holistic approach to security and compliance.   Identity governance covers policy enforcement, access reviews, and compliance reporting, while identity administration details user identity creation, management, and removal. Together, these two form a comprehensive framework for managing user identities and access within an organization. What is IGA software?   IGA software platforms are tools designed to manage and control user permissions, access rights, and roles within organizations. Their primary goal is to enhance the security posture of businesses by ensuring that the right individuals have the right access at the right times. IGA... --- ### What is lifecycle management in identity security? - Published: 2024-11-08 - Modified: 2024-11-20 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/lifecycle-management/ - Categories: Identity Security Securing user identities is vital to protect company data and ensure compliance with regulations like SOX, GDPR and PCI DSS. Without proper identity security, it’s challenging for organizations to prevent, detect, and respond to identity-based threats. Fortunately, including lifecycle management strategies like automated provisioning, deprovisioning, and regular audits of user permissions can help. In this article, we’ll explain lifecycle management, how it works, and the benefits of lifecycle management from an identity security perspective. What is lifecycle management? Lifecycle management refers to a collection of policies and processes followed to create, adjust, and delete digital identities based on changing circumstances. Suppose you hired a software engineer. During onboarding, your identity management software creates a digital identity for them with access to development tools and code repositories they need for their job. If they’re later promoted to lead developer, the system automatically updates their permissions to include access to project management tools and team leadership resources. Alternatively, the system will delete their identity if they leave the company. How does lifecycle management work in identity security? There are various elements in lifecycle management: Provisioning: Provisioning involves granting employees proper access to your company’s applications and systems. This includes creating or deleting accounts. It also includes modifying access permissions for “movers” when their responsibilities change based on a new position or if they move locations. Automated monitoring: The identity management software continuously monitors access and user behavior. If any actions don’t align with security policies or it detects suspicious activity (such as... --- ### SOC 2 Compliance Requirements [2025] - Published: 2024-11-08 - Modified: 2024-11-08 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/soc-2-compliance-requirements/ - Categories: Identity Security High-profile data breaches have grown in frequency and severity over the last few years, and in 2023 alone, there were more data breaches in the US than ever before.   The consequences of these inevitable security incidents often stretch beyond consumers, impacting businesses themselves. A single data breach can cost millions—not to mention the incalculable cost of reputational damage and the loss of customer trust. As a result, data and identity security have become a top priority for most organizations today. Several security standards and certifications have emerged as benchmarks for organizations to demonstrate their dedication to protecting data. Among these, a Service Organizations Controls (SOC) report stands out as one of the most well-regarded, particularly SOC 2, which focuses on protecting customer data.   This article explains what a SOC 2 report is, how it differs from SOC 1, its compliance requirements and criteria, and the SOC 2 audit process. With this information, your organization can thoroughly prepare itself for SOC 2 compliance and even achieve ongoing SOC 2 compliance. What is a SOC 2 report?   Developed in 2010 under the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) guidelines, a SOC 2 report evaluates an organization’s information security measures. This type of audit examines the controls an organization has in place to protect the systems and services its customers and partners use to make sure they can prevent unauthorized access and security breaches.   With specific criteria for managing customer data, protecting privacy, and securing networks against vulnerabilities,... --- ### Veza Product Updates - October 2024 - Published: 2024-10-31 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/veza-product-updates-october-2024/ - Categories: Product This month includes several significant changes, including a refreshed experience for access reviewers, a detailed saved query view, new integration capabilities, and a range of enhancements across product areas. Welcome to the October product update! Our Oct’24 releases have included a range of enhancements and new features across Veza's products, including: Access Intelligence: New support for managing risk assignees, improved dashboard actionability, and Access Hub enhancements for all users. Access Reviews: Historic decision visualization, risk scores and resource usage attributes, scheduled review exports, and predefined approval and rejection notes. Lifecycle Management: Oracle HCM as a source of identity, new actions for ServiceNow, dry run capabilities for previewing the results of Lifecycle Management policies, support for webhooks in Actions, and options for triggering workflows based on an identity’s existing entitlements. Veza Integrations: New integrations for Cisco Duo, Device42, and enhancements for Privacera, Snowflake, SharePoint Online, PostgreSQL, and MySQL. Please read on for more details about specific changes in each product area, and contact your Veza representative with any questions or valued feedback. Access Intelligence Risk Assignees: Organizations can now assign users to specific risks detected in their environment, ensuring that the right individuals own those risks and mitigation tasks. You can assign an owner to any risk on the Access Risks page by expanding the Actions menu and choosing Add Risk Assignee. This is the first of planned risk lifecycle enhancements for improved risk remediation and tracking. Access Hub (Early Access): The Access Hub > My Access page now provides a streamlined interface for all users to review their current access to apps and resources. This enhancement extends visibility beyond managers and access review participants to include all users. Actionability... --- ### Non-Human Identity Security Risks: Practical Guide to Mitigation - Published: 2024-10-29 - Modified: 2025-02-03 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/non-human-identity-security-a-practical-guide-to-mitigating-risk/ - Categories: Identity Security In today’s multi-cloud and distributed environments, managing identities is more complex than ever, especially when dealing with non-human identities (NHIs). These NHIs, like service accounts, service principals, and other machine identities, silently operate across an ever-growing landscape of cloud platforms, applications, and on-premises systems - enabling tasks like automating backups, managing container deployments, and facilitating communication between microservices. However, while these unseen workhorses are essential to keeping businesses running smoothly, they also pose significant security risks if left unmanaged. This blog post will demonstrate how Veza helps organizations effectively manage NHIs through several key use cases, both mitigating compliance risk and enhancing security. The Hidden Complexity of NHIs NHIs may not require the same level of direct interaction as human users, who regularly change roles, take on new responsibilities, and request additional access over time. NHIs are often created for a specific task and then left to operate in a 'set it and forget it' fashion. Unlike human identities, which are subject to ongoing adjustments, NHIs persist in the background with static permissions, making them easy to overlook yet critical to monitor. They are often highly privileged, access sensitive data, and if left unchecked, can introduce significant security risks.   In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, NHIs play a crucial and often overlooked role in the development and training of AI models. These digital entities are essential to these workloads behind the scenes, enabling the massive data processing and complex interactions necessary for creating sophisticated AI systems. NHIs... --- ### Identity Lifecycle Management: Beyond Provisioning & Deprovisioning - Published: 2024-10-22 - Modified: 2025-02-03 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/going-beyond-provisioning-and-deprovisioning-with-veza-lifecycle-management/ - Categories: Identity Security Introduction Managing consistent and correct birthright access throughout an employee's lifecycle is crucial for maintaining an organization’s security posture, compliance with regulatory mandates, and operational efficiency. While provisioning and deprovisioning of user access forms the operational foundation of user lifecycle management, organizations need to look beyond these basic functions to optimize their internal processes to manage risk and ensure compliance at every stage. In highly regulated industries, such as healthcare, the stakes are even higher. Effective lifecycle management is not just about operational efficiency—it's a critical component of maintaining compliance, protecting sensitive data, and mitigating the risk of costly data breaches. A single oversight in access management can lead to severe regulatory penalties and loss of trust. Provisioning and Deprovisioning Alone is Insufficient Account and access provisioning and deprovisioning have long been considered the core function of user lifecycle management as these processes are essential in supporting Joiner, Mover, and Leaver (JML) scenarios within the organization. In fact, protocols like System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) emerged to exclusively focus on this area; providing standardized methods for managing user identities across different systems and applications. For instance, SCIM excels at: Automating user account creation and deletion Synchronizing user attributes Assigning users to groups in applications Veza Lifecycle Management supports SCIM for user provisioning and deprovisioning to the applications and systems that support the protocol. But, SCIM has its challenges and limitations: SCIM is limited to the world of “directory services” - that is, users and groups Despite well-meaning intentions to... --- ### Veza Product Updates - September 2024 - Published: 2024-10-21 - Modified: 2024-10-21 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/veza-product-updates-september-2024/ - Categories: Product This month includes several significant changes, including a refreshed experience for access reviewers, a detailed saved query view, new integration capabilities, and a range of enhancements across product areas. Welcome to the September product update! The past month featured a range of enhancements and new features across Veza's products with highlights including: Advanced Access Intelligence: Enhanced enrichment rules (privilege permissions, non-human identity entities, and more). Access Portal: A new details tab shows user access and permissions to individual resources. This is part of the Advanced Access Intelligence product. Access Reviews: New Quick Builder for fast and simplified review configuration, digest notifications, multi-level review and sign-off support, and new role and group analytics for reviewers. Lifecycle Management (LCM): Additional actions for workflows including removing personal devices from Intune and initiating email and webhook-based actions as part of a workflow to trigger external onboarding or offboarding processes, and improved logging and event exports. Veza Integrations: New integrations for Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne (JDE), Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), Teleport, Microsoft Intune, and Microsoft Power BI bring the total Veza integrations to 250+. Veza Platform: Introduced team-based API keys and the ability to map federated identities and roles for Veza teams during single sign-on. Please read on for more details about specific changes in each product area, and please reach out to your Veza representative with any questions or invaluable feedback. Advanced Access Intelligence Major Enhancements to Enrichment Rules Enrichment rules allow you to identify important entities, such as privileged roles, critical resources, and non-human identities by applying special attributes, which you can use to create queries, define rules and risks, and scope access reviews. The criteria for enrichment can include attributes (such... --- ### Simplifying Security: The Power of Effective Access Control in Cybersecurity - Published: 2024-10-18 - Modified: 2024-10-18 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/simplifying-security-the-power-of-effective-access-control-in-cybersecurity/ - Categories: Data Security, Thought Leadership As we celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month, it's crucial to spotlight one of the most fundamental yet often overcomplicated aspects of security: access control. In our rush to implement cutting-edge security measures, we sometimes overlook this basic principle: data and systems are best protected when only the right people have access to them. The Complexity Trap In the cybersecurity world, we have a tendency to make things complicated. We pile on layers of security tools, implement intricate policies, and create labyrinthine processes. While these measures are often necessary, they can obscure a simple truth: effective access control is at the heart of good security. As Leonardo da Vinci once said, "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. " This rings especially true in cybersecurity, where the most effective solutions are often the most straightforward. The Power of Simplicity At its core, access control is about ensuring that the right people have the right access to the right resources at the right time. It's about implementing the principle of least privilege – giving users only the access they need to do their jobs, and nothing more. This concept isn't new, but in today's complex digital landscape, it's more important than ever. With the proliferation of cloud services, digital and data platforms, and interconnected systems, managing access effectively has become both more crucial and more challenging. Albert Einstein famously stated, "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. " This principle applies perfectly to access control in cybersecurity. The Challenge of Modern... --- ### Application Risk Scoring: Enhance Identity Security - Published: 2024-10-10 - Modified: 2025-02-03 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/risk-scoring-in-identity-security/ - Categories: Identity Security, Product Why risk scoring is essential In the past decade, migration to the cloud and the rise of machine identities have upended the identity security world. The number of identities organizations need to manage has exploded, both in terms of numbers and in the variety of tools and systems they inhabit. The tools and processes of the previous decade, like quarterly access reviews, are no longer sufficient. If there are 20000 identities in your organization, it’s no longer realistic to examine each in turn, A-Z, giving each equal time and consideration. This leaves identity security in an awkward transitional phase, with yesterday’s tools and processes obviously inadequate, and tomorrow’s solutions - leveraging machine learning, AI, and process automation to cope with the scale of identity - still being developed.   This means that a critical competency for any security or governance team is the ability to triage. That is, to identify, and focus on, their biggest risks in order to get maximum effect from their time and effort. Risk scoring of identities gives you the context you need to develop this competency. Two dimensions of risk: likelihood and impact When we talk about risk, we’re really talking about two separate concepts: likelihood, and impact. Likelihood asks “What is the chance of a particular event, like a successful phishing attack or other unauthorized access, happening within a given timeframe? ”. Impact asks “If this event happens, what is the impact on the organization, or how bad will it be? For example, will... --- ### Charting a Path for the Future of Identity Security - Published: 2024-09-23 - Modified: 2024-09-23 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/charting-a-path-for-the-future-of-identity-security/ - Categories: Identity Radicals, Identity Security In the contemporary business landscape, data, digital, and technological infrastructure have become fundamental pillars of organizational strategy and growth. As enterprises increasingly rely on these elements to drive innovation, enhance operational efficiency, and create competitive advantages, the complexity of managing and securing access to these critical assets has grown exponentially. This evolution necessitates a paradigm shift in the approach to identity and access management (IAM), particularly in light of the rapid adoption of cloud services, SaaS applications, and the increasing intricacy of access control mechanisms. Correspondingly, the world of enterprise security has undergone similar and profound transformation in recent years. CrowdStrike led the transition from anti-virus to endpoint detection and response (EDR), Zscaler pioneered the shift from web proxy and cloud access security to Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), and Wiz spearheaded the move from cloud security posture management (CSPM) and Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) to Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP). The industry also needs a new era in identity security - the transition to intelligent access, and to finally achieve least privilege at scale. The Challenge: Access Sprawl in the Modern Enterprise In the past, enterprises largely relied on a single vendor ecosystem, such as Microsoft, for their identity and access management needs. Active Directory served as the primary identity provider, while Windows file shares, SharePoint, and MS SQL Server, all hosted in on-premises data centers, formed the core of the enterprise IT infrastructure. Modern enterprises face a multifaceted challenge in the realm of identity security. The proliferation... --- ### Automated Access Revocation & Remediation at Scale - Published: 2024-09-10 - Modified: 2025-02-03 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/vezas-automated-access-revocation-and-access-remediation/ - Categories: Data Security With the average enterprise using 371 SaaS applications to conduct day-to-day operations, access is becoming more disparate and difficult to manage. Access is codified via system specific permissions and entitlements, and the lack of understanding of what these permissions mean, results in increasing the risk for organizations. In order to maintain least privilege, enterprises must ensure that their users are given the appropriate birthright access as well as continuously detect and remove unused or inappropriate access. Furthermore, organizations have been focusing on finding unused access to applications as a means of reducing expenditure associated with growing SaaS license costs.   The Veza Access Platform allows security and identity teams to gain the understanding of identities and associated access across platforms, SaaS applications, and resources in order to determine if accounts are over-permissioned or if entitlements have been unused. Using Veza Lifecycle Management, users can be provisioned and deprovisioned automatically to ensure that users have access to the appropriate set of entitlements across applications based on their role, location, and function in the organization. Furthermore, all Veza products, such as Access Intelligence, integrate with the System for Cross-Domain Identity Management (SCIM) protocol to further automate the deprovisioning process by making it more intelligent and standardized, especially when Veza is detecting security incidents, usage activity (or lack thereof), or other noteworthy events (i. e. lateral movement, privilege elevation, privilege drift, etc. ) that need to result in user deprovisioning to reduce and limit access. Common Access Revocation Scenarios Automate Termination of Identities ... --- ### Veza for HashiCorp Vault: Bringing least privilege to Vault and Secrets - Published: 2024-09-05 - Modified: 2024-09-05 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/veza-for-hashicorp-vault/ - Categories: Integrations 📰 🚨 Veza for HashiCorp is here ! ! 📰 🚨 HashiCorp Vault stands at the forefront of enterprise secret and key management solutions, distinguished by its advanced capabilities among leading vault technologies. We're thrilled to announce Veza's integration with HashiCorp Vault for key use cases of Privilege Access Management (PAM) and Non-Human Identity Management (NHI). This integration empowers your organization to elevate the identity security, compliance, and efficiency of managing secrets and keys throughout your enterprise infrastructure. Veza's Full Integration with HashiCorp Vault is Now Active: What's New? Comprehensive Visibility  Gain unparalleled end-to-end insight, identifying which identities—both human and machine—have permissions to create, read, update, or delete secrets. This visibility extends to the authentication methods in use. We now support an extensive range of HashiCorp Vault components, including: HashiCorp Vault Cluster HashiCorp Vault Namespace HashiCorp Vault Entity - identities interacting with HashiCorp Vault HashiCorp Vault Group - groups containing multiple entities HashiCorp Vault Alias HashiCorp Vault Auth Method & Subresources HashiCorp Vault Secrets Engine & Secrets HashiCorp Vault Policy Operational Insights Deploy policies that alert or notify about crucial HashiCorp Vault changes, including administrative adjustments or access shifts to critical secrets. Non-Human Identity Management Discover which non-human identities access HashiCorp Vault and the authentication methods they utilize. Understand the volume and distribution of secrets within HashiCorp Vault, particularly concerning non-human identities. Access Reviews: Enable comprehensive access reviews, providing a clear view of who has access to what secrets and by what means. This fosters a secure, compliant operational environment. Why this matters? Secrets Entitlement... --- ### Separation of Duties: Combating Toxic Combinations with SoD Controls - Published: 2024-08-29 - Modified: 2025-02-03 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/separation-of-duties-combating-toxic-combinations-with-sod-controls/ - Categories: Identity Security In today’s complex organizational landscape, the concept of Separation of Duties (SoD) is more crucial than ever. SoD controls help organizations mitigate the risk of fraud and errors by ensuring that no single user has access to execute conflicting, potentially dangerous actions. Let's delve into how these controls work and how Veza’s advanced capabilities make it easier to implement and manage SoD across your business processes. What is Separation of Duties? Separation of Duties (SoD) is a key internal control that prevents individuals from being able to perform a combination of sensitive tasks that could lead to fraud or errors. These are often referred to as “toxic combinations,” highlighting the security risks involved if such access is exploited. For example: Finance and Accounting: If one person can both create new vendors and approve payments, they could potentially make fraudulent payments to fictitious vendors. IT Admin: If a user can manage access permissions and also delete system logs, they could hide unauthorized access changes. Sales and Revenue: If someone can modify customer contracts and record sales transactions, they could manipulate financial records. These examples underscore the necessity of SoD controls in various departments and roles within an organization. Effective SoD controls divide these privileged actions across multiple users or teams, significantly reducing the potential for abuse. Challenges of Implementing SoD Controls Implementing SoD controls in complex environments presents significant challenges due to the intricate nature of modern IT infrastructures. Organizations often face difficulties in aligning SoD policies across diverse systems, including... --- ### IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report: AI Security Cost Reduction - Published: 2024-08-28 - Modified: 2025-02-03 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/ibm-cost-of-a-data-breach-report-ai-security-cost-reduction-veza/ - Categories: Industry News, Product We’ve come to expect the cost of a data breach to tick up a little each year, sort of like the NFL salary cap, but things changed dramatically this past year according to IBM’s 2024 Cost of Data Breach Report. Findings from the survey of organizations that suffered attacks show a pronounced spike in the cost of data breaches but also profound implications for using artificial intelligence (AI) to curtail losses.   The bottom line What’s driving breach costs higher? Based on research from the Ponemon Institute, the 19th report in IBM’s landmark series found the average cost of incurring a breach rose nearly 10% to $4. 88 million, the largest increase since the height of the pandemic. The report cites business disruption — operational downtime and the impact of lost business — as the greatest contributing factor to the rising cost of data breaches.   All told, the combined cost of post-breach activities totaled $2. 8 million, the highest during the past six years. And while the report does not specifically call it out, public admission of a breach clearly has the potential to drive cyber insurance premiums higher. In 2024, the average cost of a breach rose nearly 10% to 4. 88 million. Source: IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024 AI makes attacks smarter, faster, and more expensive The sharp rise in cost stems in part from AI equipping threat actors to build and launch harder-to-detect attacks faster on a global scale. The report cites several... --- ### Identity governance in the cloud era - Published: 2024-08-26 - Modified: 2025-01-29 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/identity-radicals-identity-governance-in-the-cloud-era/ - Categories: Identity Radicals Identity today looks much different than it used to; in fact, even the nomenclature has changed. The security disciplines that used to reside within traditional categories like Identity and Access Management (IAM) have greatly expanded in scope and now fall within the broader umbrella of Identity Security. Two security practitioners, Elizabeth Butwin Mann (Cybersecurity Leader) and Mike Towers (Chief Security & Trust Officer, Veza) discuss the implications of the now-massive scope of identity security practices for businesses operating in multi-cloud environments (as well as the role of AI in securing access to data) in Veza's latest episode of the Identity Radicals podcast. https://youtu. be/cJ07oO9gDxw? feature=shared The evolution of identity disciplines In this episode, our two speakers explore how modern technology is impacting identity security, as well as the evolving role of identity governance in the cloud. For example, IAM used to be a discipline related to office automation. Traditional IT teams were most concerned with things like unique identifiers, while managing an access landscape much smaller than what we see today. The proliferation of access has pivoted IAM from being a back-office management of basic access to a complex battle against excess privilege amongst all identities, human and non-human alike. This shift in scope for IT and security teams is even reflected in the common organizational debate about where identity "belongs" within the business. "Identity used to be a Service Desk problem," says Towers. "Now identity is the biggest attack vector and it's more of a business problem," as well... --- ### Securing Snowflake: A CISO's Guide to Effective Access Control - Published: 2024-08-22 - Modified: 2024-08-22 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/securing-snowflake-a-cisos-guide-to-effective-access-control/ - Categories: Data Security, Thought Leadership Recent Breaches: A Reminder of Shared Responsibility As Snowflake continues to be rapidly adopted across enterprises, Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) are increasingly recognizing the importance of securing access to this critical data platform. By focusing more energy on managing entitlements and permissions within the platform, CISOs can significantly enhance their organization's security posture. It's important to note that while every company, including Snowflake, can always strive to improve the security of their platforms, the ultimate responsibility for securing data within Snowflake lies with the CISOs, data owners, data stewards and their stakeholders who have purchased and are using the platform. It's not reasonable to expect Snowflake to handle or preconfigure all security aspects for every situation and risk level. As CISOs, it's crucial to understand the permissions within Snowflake and control them properly to ensure the security of the organization's data. The recent data breaches involving companies using Snowflake's cloud storage platform have highlighted significant vulnerabilities in data security practices. High-profile incidents, such as the AT&T breach affecting 110 million customers, underscore the critical need for robust security measures and the shared responsibility between service providers and their customers. While Snowflake provides a sophisticated and powerful platform for data analytics, the responsibility for securing data does not rest solely on their shoulders. Snowflake operates under a shared responsibility model, where they offer comprehensive guidance on security practices, including multi-factor authentication (MFA), network policies, and regular monitoring. However, it is ultimately up to the customers to implement these measures effectively.... --- ### Veza Product Updates - July 2024 - Published: 2024-08-19 - Modified: 2024-08-19 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/veza-product-updates-july-2024/ - Categories: Product This month includes several significant changes, including a refreshed experience for access reviewers, a detailed saved query view, new integration capabilities, and a range of enhancements across product areas. Our July 2024 releases featured improvements across Access Intelligence, Access Reviews, and Lifecycle Management and introduced the Veza Access Portal for managers to gain visibility into their direct reports’ access. Some notable changes, all designed to help you improve your control and visibility over your access landscape, include expanded dashboards for tracking non-human identities, the introduction of granular risk levels, and enhanced support for access keys and other machine credentials. We've also added early access features aimed at simplifying team access management. Redesigned overviews and a new reviewer experience provide tools for managers to oversee and review direct reports' access. Additionally, we've continued to build and enhance integrations to expand Veza's support for modern data systems and SaaS applications. Read on for more details about specific changes by product and please reach out to our team with your questions and invaluable feedback: Access Intelligence Non-Human Identities: Last month, we introduced a series of dashboards focused on managing non-human identities (NHI), now augmented by new out-of-the-box assessment queries. You can modify these queries to meet specific needs for visibility across integrated data sources, including: Inactive identities that can access keys and secrets. Non-human identities that are not active and can use access credentials. New keys, secrets, and access credentials. Keys and secrets that have not been rotated. Expanded Risk Levels: For more flexible risk management and compatibility with external systems, saved queries now support the following risk levels: LOW, MEDIUM, HIGH, or CRITICAL. Risk scores now take into account the updated... --- ### Identity Security Posture Management > Learn how Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) helps security teams reduce identity risk and enforce least privilege across complex environments. - Published: 2024-08-06 - Modified: 2025-04-23 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/identity-security-posture-management/ - Categories: Company, Identity Radicals, Product Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) is a top priority in cybersecurity this year and it's easy to see why. With 80% of data breaches linked to identity-related issues, organizations are stepping up their identity security game by adopting modern solutions to answer cybersecurity’s hardest question: “Who can take what action on what data? ” As cloud services and SaaS applications multiply, traditional security methods simply can't keep pace with this expanding attack surface. The challenges associated with managing access across multiple environments have proven that traditional identity tools (SSO, IAM, IGA) can’t solve the identity security puzzle. That's why many organizations are turning to ISPM: a holistic approach to reducing and fortifying the attack surface associated with all identity access in the enterprise.   In today’s complex digital world, understanding and implementing ISPM is no longer optional—it’s essential for resiliency against identity threats. What is Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM)? Identity Security Posture Management is the practice of securing an organization's access to data for all digital identities. It includes processes, technologies, and policies used to manage identities and access entitlements across an organization’s IT systems and applications. The goal of ISPM is to minimize the risk associated with identity access across the enterprise, while still meeting the needs of the business.   This includes adherence to the principle of least privilege and disciplined pruning of role structures. This includes identifying vulnerabilities and gaps, preventing accidental and overprivileged access, and ensuring access rights and permissions are properly managed and aligned... --- ### Access AI: Introducing the Future of Identity Security - Published: 2024-08-06 - Modified: 2025-02-14 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/access-ai-introducing-the-future-of-identity-security-veza/ - Categories: Data Security, Identity Security Introduction At Veza, our mission is to invent the future of identity security. We are dedicated to advancing safety and resilience in a time when breaches and ransomware attacks are increasing in frequency, impact, and cost. We focus on enabling our customers to proactively identify and mitigate identity security risks and vulnerabilities before they allow an actual attack or theft. Over the last four years, we’ve redefined the identity security landscape with our Access Graph, a visual and actionable representation that answers cybersecurity's toughest question: “Who can take what action on what data? ” Built on the Access Graph, our powerful Access Platform provides leading organizations - like Blackstone, Expedia and Wynn Resorts - with the true and complete picture of enterprise access, so that they can proactively detect and fix identity risks before they allow data breaches or ransomware attacks. Today, we are excited to unveil our latest innovation for identity security teams: Access AI. At its core, Access AI represents a powerful new set of artificial intelligence capabilities that empower organizations to automate and enhance identity security operations. Access AI addresses longstanding challenges that have long burdened security teams, elevating risk levels and complicating security management. By harnessing machine learning (ML) and Generative AI (GenAI), Access AI democratizes the power of the Access Graph, so that anyone across the business can ask and answer questions in plain English, allowing anyone to fix excessive permissions. The Power of Access AI Access AI is a game-changer for teams across identity... --- ### AI for Identity Security: My Journey, Our Perspective, and Veza’s Strategy - Published: 2024-08-06 - Modified: 2024-08-06 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/ai-for-identity-security-my-journey-our-perspective-and-vezas-strategy/ - Categories: Thought Leadership When I left my role leading the product management team at Okta in 2018, I had the unique opportunity to really think. I had the chance to be thoughtful and deliberate about my next career move. Even before Chat GPT had broken into public consciousness, it was pretty obvious that AI was going to drive the next big wave of technological innovation. I worked through Stuart Russell’s textbook “AI: A Modern Approach” and did a couple of online Python classes. I don’t come from a software development background, and I wanted to get closer to the tech that I was becoming increasingly convinced would be transformational. My mental model was that there were three key drivers for success in AI: the algorithm or model, compute resources, and training data. There was plenty of work to be done on developing new models, but it seemed that there would likely be accessibility to the best ones or at least open-source versions that would suffice. Compute takes money, but the cloud platforms have made that readily available for those willing to spend. The training data, however, is different. Training on the public internet can only take you so far. Living in the world of enterprise software has certainly attuned me to the value of unique datasets. I took from this line of thinking that the key to unlocking value in new enterprise AI applications is having a unique and valuable dataset that no one else does. That’s when I met Veza (then called... --- ### Empowering Business Initiatives with Modern Identity Security - Published: 2024-08-02 - Modified: 2024-08-02 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/empowering-business-initiatives-with-modern-identity-security/ - Categories: Identity Security, Thought Leadership In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, organizations across various industries face numerous challenges as they embrace transformative initiatives to stay competitive and drive growth. According to a recent Gartner study, 80% of organizations experienced an identity-related security incident in the last 12 months. This statistic underscores the critical need for security teams to partner with business units to secure these initiatives effectively. From cloud migration and digital transformation to harnessing the power of AI and navigating complex corporate transactions, security teams must be ready to partner with the business and enable these initiatives safely and securely. The shift from a single vendor ecosystem reliant on Active Directory and on-premises infrastructure to a complex web of SaaS applications and cloud services has led to access sprawl. This makes it increasingly difficult for security teams to determine who can access what across the organization. Despite the adoption of identity tools like SSO and MFA, the question remains: "Who can take what action on what data? " Furthermore, as businesses strive to become more data-driven and digitally agile, the ownership and management of critical SaaS and data platforms have become decentralized, with business units increasingly taking charge of the platforms most relevant to their functions. While this shift fosters agility and innovation, it creates significant blind spots for security teams, who must balance the need for agility with the imperative to maintain strict security controls and protect sensitive data. The consequences of inadequate identity and access management are severe, with 75% of breaches... --- ### Where Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and Human Identities Converge: A Comprehensive Approach to Identity Security - Published: 2024-07-30 - Modified: 2024-09-23 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/where-non-human-identities-nhis-and-human-identities-converge-a-comprehensive-approach-to-identity-security/ - Categories: IAM, Identity Security, IGA Introduction In the rapidly evolving landscape of enterprise security, the lines between human and non-human identities are increasingly blurred. Traditionally, disciplines like Identity and Access Management (IAM), Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), and identity security have focused on protecting human identities—employees, customers, and partners. However, with the proliferation of applications and other enterprise workloads leveraging service accounts, service principals, and the like, the scope of “identity products” must also expand. This shift necessitates a comprehensive approach to identity security that addresses both human and non-human identities, recognizing their overlaps and unique challenges. Only platforms that integrate both facets can meet the needs of modern enterprises. There are five key drivers why NHIs and human identities need a comprehensive solution: 1. NHI and Human Identities Blend Together NHIs often simply use accounts intended for humans, leading to challenges in understanding your environment or the extent of the risk. Identifying these “shadow NHIs” usually depends on the specific practices in an organization and may change over time depending on the processes in place when the service account came into use. Naming conventions, for example, are one of the most widely used identifiers. Sometimes, deeper contextual analysis is required, focusing on characteristic behavioral patterns and the absence of standard security practices like MFA, which are often deactivated for service accounts because of requirements around human interaction at authentication time. Segmenting identities into human or non-human is not a simple problem. For example, knowing that an account is tied to the HR system gives... --- ### Veza Product Updates - June 2024 - Published: 2024-07-24 - Modified: 2024-07-25 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/veza-product-updates-june-2024/ - Categories: Product This month includes several significant changes, including a refreshed experience for access reviewers, a detailed saved query view, new integration capabilities, and a range of enhancements across product areas. Welcome to the June 2024 Veza Product Update! We're excited to share the latest enhancements and new features from the latest weekly releases. Our team has been diligently working to improve your experience on the platform, especially around understanding and monitoring risks associated with non-human identities. This includes expanded support for machine access credentials such as tokens and API keys. This update includes enhancements in risk management, query builder functionality, and access review usability. As always, we have enhanced and added integrations to expand your ability to secure and manage a range of possible environments, including Oracle Database on AWS RDS. Read the highlights and major changes to empower your identity security and access management practices with Veza: Access Intelligence Non-Human Identity Dashboards: Added two new dashboards for monitoring and understanding the access of non-human identities in various environments, and how they interact with critical resources using keys, secrets, and access credentials. NHI Access Security: Highlights non-human identities accessing secrets and using access credentials, helping identify trends and potential security gaps. NHI Insights: Visibility into identity sprawl and capabilities, such as AWS EC2 instances that can list and read bucket objects, or Microsoft Azure AD Service Principals connected to VMs. NHI Access Security Dashboard Risk Details: You can now quickly view the detailed explanations and get remediation instructions by opening a details sidebar on the Queries with Risks page. Non-Human Identities: Added support for automatically labeling human and non-human identities with Enrichment Rules, configured in the Integrations section. Administrators can... --- ### The MIGHT of Veza - Published: 2024-07-22 - Modified: 2024-10-22 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/the-might-of-veza/ - Categories: Company We often hear the word “values” tossed around, but in the world of startups, they are far more than buzzwords. Values are the unshakeable foundation upon which our success is built. They act as our north star, steering decisions, fueling actions, and weaving our team together into a tapestry of collaboration, innovation and resilience. When our Co-Founders - Tarun Thakur, Maohua Lu, and Rob Whitcher - embarked on this adventure in 2020, they drafted a set of guiding principles that formed our compass in our founding days. From time to time, we've taken the opportunity to revisit these principles to ensure they reflect and convey who we are, and who we aspire to be, on the journey to build an iconic company. As Veza grows to and beyond a team of 150, we recently iterated on our principles to make it easier for employees to remember in our day-to-day activities. Though our values remain remarkably consistent since our founding days, this revision expressess them in 5 simple phrases, abbreviated as the “MIGHT” of Veza.   Let me introduce you to the “MIGHT” values: Ownership Mindset Adopting an ownership mindset means that we care about the holistic success of the company. We evaluate our own initiatives, responsibilities and area goals in the broader context of the company and we maintain this mindset, with unwavering commitment to bold actions, even when difficult. Ownership means thinking big, and taking actions to own items from end to end. Act with Integrity To act with... --- ### Mitigating the UNC3944 Threat: The Power of Modern Identity Security Platforms - Published: 2024-07-18 - Modified: 2024-07-18 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/mitigating-the-unc3944-threat-the-power-of-modern-identity-security-platforms/ - Categories: Identity Security, Industry News Introduction A recent threat intelligence report from Mandiant underscores the growing risk posed by the UNC3944 threat group, which targets SaaS applications to steal sensitive data and extort organizations. As companies increasingly rely on a complex web of SaaS applications and cloud services, managing access sprawl and protecting against identity-related security incidents has become a top priority. Modern identity security platforms, with broad visibility, intelligence, and unified view of entitlements across platforms, are a powerful tool in mitigating these threats and safeguarding enterprises. The UNC3944 Threat UNC3944 employs sophisticated tactics to gain initial access to privileged accounts, often through social engineering attacks against corporate help desks. Once inside, they conduct extensive reconnaissance, abuse SSO permissions, and create persistence mechanisms like new virtual machines. Notably, UNC3944 pivots to SaaS applications like Salesforce, O365, and even cloud infrastructure platforms such as AWS and Azure, exfiltrating data to attacker-owned cloud storage using cloud synchronization tools. Traditional security controls struggle to detect this activity due to the abstracted nature of SaaS networking. The Power of Modern Identity Security Platforms Modern identity security platforms address the core challenges that enable threats like UNC3944 to succeed. By providing comprehensive visibility and control over identities and permissions across an enterprise's entire multi-cloud ecosystem, these platforms empower security teams to: Discover and map all human and service identities, their effective permissions, and the data they can access across all SaaS apps and cloud services. This eliminates dangerous blind spots. Identify and remediate excessive, unused, and high-risk permissions that... --- ### Join us at Black Hat USA August 3 - 8, 2024 - Published: 2024-07-17 - Modified: 2024-07-17 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/join-us-at-black-hat-usa-august-3-8-2024/ - Categories: Industry Events Join us at Black Hat USA 2024, and discover how Veza’s modern approach to identity access can help you overcome the blindspots of traditional identity tools by showing all entitlements, for both human and non-human identities.   Veza’s Access Platform reduces the risk of breaches, ransomware and insider abuse, all while reducing the labor of access reviews and compliance audits. Veza has the broadest coverage for enterprise systems, including data systems like Snowflake and cloud infrastructure like AWS, GCP, and Azure. Learn more: Visit us at booth #4622 in the Business Hall for the latest updates, customer case studies and demos. Enter to win 1 of 8 YETI Tundra 35 Coolers. Schedule a meeting with us to see our Access Control Platform. VIP Experience: Join us at the GuidePoint Black Hat Party on Tuesday, August 6 at Skyfall Lounge – Delano. Exclusive Discount: Use code VEZA for $200 off a Briefing Pass or $50 off a Business Hall Pass on the Black Hat registration site. We look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas! --- ### What is SaaS Sprawl? - Published: 2024-07-11 - Modified: 2024-10-24 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/what-is-saas-sprawl/ - Categories: Data Security, Privileged Access, SaaS Software as a Service (SaaS) applications provide many benefits to organizations, including enhanced scalability, accessibility, reduced vendor lock-in, and faster time to value. However, the rapid increase in the use of SaaS accounts has led to SaaS sprawl, where an organization deploys SaaS apps without proper IT oversight.   The unchecked proliferation of SaaS applications can lead to security and compliance risks. According to IBM, 82% of data breaches stem from vulnerabilities in SaaS environments. In this article, you’ll learn what causes SaaS sprawl, its impact, and how to strengthen your SaaS security posture management to help mitigate the risk of breaches. What is SaaS sprawl  SaaS sprawl is the uncontrolled adoption and use of SaaS applications within an organization without proper management. It is a natural byproduct of departments or employees independently purchasing or subscribing to cloud-based applications without coordinating with IT teams or obtaining prior approval.   SaaS sprawl vs app sprawl vs shadow IT vs shadow provisioning SaaS sprawl is the known or unknown decentralized acquisition of cloud applications by individual employees, departments, or even IT teams. In addition to the growth of SaaS apps being integrated without IT’s knowledge, SaaS sprawl also manifests when employees connect third-party apps to their existing SaaS tech stack.   App sprawl refers to the uncontrolled growth of all applications, regardless of how they are delivered. This can include traditional on-premise software installations, custom-developed applications, and even SaaS applications.   For example, the sales team in your organization may adopt Salesforce... --- ### Intelligent Access for custom apps: getting started with Veza's Open Authorization API - Published: 2024-07-11 - Modified: 2024-08-15 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/intelligent-access-for-custom-apps-getting-started-with-vezas-open-authorization-api/ - Categories: Technical Thought Leadership Where your traditional identity system stops providing access information at the role level, you are often left with fetching the remaining fine-grained authorization data separately from each native system the identities have access to. The trend towards centralizing access around Identity Management Providers, and towards more and more connected systems has multiplied this flaw, and created a new surface area for identity-based cyber threats. This is why we created the Veza Access Graph, so that you can answer in real-time: who can take what action on what data? At the core of Veza is a data pipeline platform that facilitates integrations with all the systems in your enterprise – which include identity sources (e. g. IdPs like AD and Okta, HRIS systems like Workday, etc. ), data platforms (e. g. Snowflake, RDMBS, NoSQL databases, etc. ) SaaS applications, on-prem apps and more – to create a rich dataset showing connections between identities, authorization metadata and resources. The data model is essentially a graph, which enables you to easily visualize and identify which users have what access to which resources. Open Authorization API A growing catalog of built-in integrations is provided out-of-the-box, where only configuration necessary for Veza to start extracting metadata; Integrations are done in minutes, not weeks or months. Any system can be brought in to the graph, not just out-of-the-box integrations. To support custom applications, and systems that aren’t native integrations yet, or those that require custom modeling, Veza provides the Open Authorization API (OAA). The following diagram... --- ### Veza Product Updates - May 2024 - Published: 2024-07-08 - Modified: 2024-07-08 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/veza-product-updates-may-2024/ - Categories: Product This month includes several significant changes, including a refreshed experience for access reviewers, a detailed saved query view, new integration capabilities, and a range of enhancements across product areas. Welcome to the May 2024 Veza Product Update! As always, we’ve been hard at work developing new features and products and incremental changes over weekly releases. We’re excited to share some highlights to help you make the best use of our latest capabilities. Some of these changes include improved visibility into non-human identities (NHI), fully redesigned and customizable dashboards on the Veza home page, and advanced export to Snowflake. We’ve also improved programmatic user management, enabled access reviews from saved queries, and added and enhanced integrations to support a wider range of SaaS applications. The product team is committed to continuously improving your experience with Veza and would love your feedback on the changes. Please read on to explore all the newest improvements, designed to empower your identity security and access management practices. Access Intelligence Built-In Dashboards: A range of new Dashboards now offer visibility and actionable intelligence across integrated systems: Dormant Entities Report: This report summarizes users, groups, and roles that have not accessed resources they have permissions on. It is now included in Veza's main dashboards when Activity Monitoring is enabled, including new out-of-the-box queries such as Okta users with dormant access to AWS Secrets Manager secrets. Identity and Privilege Access Insights: For visibility into least privilege violations and trends for users, groups, and service accounts across integrations, this built-in report is now available as a single-tile dashboard. SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) Dashboard: Trends and insights for identity risks in SaaS applications, based on out-of-the-box Veza queries... --- ### Principle of Least Privilege Explained: Best Practices - Published: 2024-07-03 - Modified: 2025-02-03 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/the-principle-of-least-privilege-explained/ - Categories: IAM, Privileged Access, Product A comprehensive guide to the security world’s most sought and least achieved goal. In theory, the principle of least privilege is simple. It is:"The principle that a security architecture is designed so that each entity is granted the minimum system resources and authorizations needed to perform its function. " Applied to identities, the principle of least privilege means that each identity—whether human or non-human—should only have the permissions it needs to do its work, and no more. Applied effectively, the principle of least privilege promises to protect you from the worst consequences of a compromised identity. If a hacker successfully phishes an employee, or compromises a service account or API token, the damage they can cause is limited by the identity's permissions to enterprise SaaS apps and data systems. The fewer permissions they have, the smaller the “blast radius” from an attack, and the lower the likelihood of serious consequences like ransomware, data breaches, or further credential compromise. Following the principle of least privilege protects you from multiple attack vectors at once, lowering your risk from external attackers, malicious insiders and even human error. But before you can reap these benefits, you have to successfully implement it. While least privilege sounds simple enough, applying it in the real world is complicated, and getting harder all the time, as the scale and complexity of hybrid- and multi-cloud deployments increases. In practice, a “perfect” implementation of least privilege isn’t possible. That would mean that no identity ever possessed permissions it didn’t strictly... --- ### Authentication vs Authorization - Published: 2024-07-02 - Modified: 2024-07-02 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/authentication-vs-authorization/ - Categories: Authorization, Data Security, Identity Security Most modern businesses face the same problem when managing identities and security: striking the right balance between easy and secure access to applications, data, and resources to perform one's job function, and the safety and privacy of information. This challenge is widespread, and with 80% of cyberattacks using identity-based attack methods in 2023, it’s not only serious—it’s far from solved.   This is where authentication and authorization come into play. Together, they hold the key to letting the right people access the right resources with the appropriate permissions without sacrificing productivity.   Authentication is about verifying who someone is, and authorization is about what they can do. Both are important for keeping company data safe and making sure only the right people with the right permissions can access sensitive information. Because authentication and authorization sound similar, it’s easy to mix them up. This guide has everything you need to know about authentication vs authorization, from what they mean to how they differ, and why they are both critical to identity security.   What is Authentication? Authentication is the process of verifying a user’s identity by confirming an individual is who they claim to be before granting them access to a requested resource. This verification process is especially important in today’s digital world, where virtual credentials and biometric data have replaced our physical presence. In most cases, it can be achieved through three primary means: Something a Person Knows: Like a password, PIN, or security question. Something a Person Has: Like... --- ### Snowflake Roles Best Practices: Steps to Least Privilege - Published: 2024-07-02 - Modified: 2025-02-03 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/role-mining-for-snowflake-four-steps-toward-least-privilege/ - Categories: IAM, Identity Security, Technical Thought Leadership - Tags: RBAC, Snowflake Practical techniques to restore the principle of least privilege in your Snowflake RBAC, and establish a new set of best practices going forward. In the last five years, cloud data solutions in general, and Snowflake in particular, have gained adoption at stunning speeds, with Snowflake customers now running a combined five billion queries every day. But as we often see with exciting new tech (this year’s AI boom being another example) security and governance tend to move a little slower than adoption.   Even now, many organizations are trying to manage access to huge and complex Snowflake implementations, spanning thousands of users and hundreds of thousands of objects, with the same set of tools and processes they used back in the on-prem era: single Sign-on (SSO) provided by Okta or Azure AD, permissions governed by role-based access control (RBAC) and either completely manual processes or legacy IGA tools to manage compliance. This approach has some important limitations: RBAC is governance by shorthand. IAM and GRC teams have to trust that the name of a role accurately describes the permissions it grants. Visibility into the actual access outcomes of assigning a role is minimal. Teams have no systematic way of tracking whether users and roles actually use the permissions they have. Without insight into activity, there’s no way to meaningfully apply the principle of least privilege. Legacy IGA processes are designed to look at one identity at a time, with each identity receiving similar levels of scrutiny. Meanwhile the number of human identities interacting with the Data Cloud is much higher than in the on-prem era, and that’s without considering machine identities, which now... --- ### The Critical Role of Identity Security in Enabling Zero Trust - Published: 2024-07-01 - Modified: 2024-07-11 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/the-critical-role-of-identity-security-in-enabling-zero-trust/ - Categories: Authorization, Data Security, Thought Leadership As a seasoned security practitioner and the Chief Security & Trust Officer at Veza, I have witnessed firsthand the challenges organizations face in their journey towards zero trust. The rapid adoption of cloud technologies, the explosion of data, and the proliferation of human and machine identities have made implementing a robust zero trust strategy more complex than ever. However, one aspect remains clear: identity security is the cornerstone of a successful zero trust implementation. Understanding the Challenges CISOs and their teams are all too familiar with the obstacles that come with implementing zero trust. The sheer volume and complexity of permissions, coupled with the constant proliferation of identities, can be overwhelming. Managing access across a multitude of platforms, applications, and data repositories often leads to over-provisioned access, unmanaged identities, and increased risk of data breaches. Zero trust architecture is summarized in the figure below, highlighting the key areas of focus required, To effectively implement zero trust, organizations must address several critical aspects of identity security: Real-time monitoring and control of privileged access Enforcing least privilege across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS platforms Managing user entitlements in SaaS applications Securing access to data platforms Streamlining identity governance processes Managing non-human identities, such as service accounts and machine identities Addressing these challenges requires a unified view of all identities and permissions across the enterprise, as well as the ability to translate system-specific permissions into easily understandable descriptions and map them to individual identities. The Vital Role of Identity Security Security practitioners must recognize... --- ### Veza Product Updates - April 2024 - Published: 2024-06-20 - Modified: 2024-06-20 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/veza-product-updates-april-2024/ - Categories: Product This month includes several significant changes, including a refreshed experience for access reviewers, a detailed saved query view, new integration capabilities, and a range of enhancements across product areas. Welcome to the April product update! It's been a busy spring for Veza as we welcome a new design team and grow the engineering and product teams to better respond to your needs. This month includes several significant changes, including a refreshed experience for access reviewers, a detailed saved query view, new integration capabilities, and a range of enhancements across product areas. These are all intended to provide visibility and control over more potential scenarios, risks, and integrated systems, and improve the overall experience for new and experienced users. We humbly welcome your feedback and are excited to share a summary of the latest changes. Please read on to learn more about the latest improvements for each product area: Access Intelligence Enhanced Dashboards Design: For improved visual clarity, the Snowflake Data Governance and SFDC Access Security Dashboards now show individual tiles for each featured query. You can click any tile for an expanded view of the results over time or open the results in Query Builder. Query Pipeline: You can now use saved query filters to filter matching entities in the results of another query. Use combinations of attribute filters and saved query filters to create searches that can't be specified using a single query, or to simplify a complex query by breaking it into sub-queries. Activity Monitoring for AWS: Activity Monitoring now supports overprovisioned scores for AWS IAM Users and Roles based on actual utilization of S3 Buckets and Secrets Manager Secrets. Veza also shows overprovisioned access for Okta... --- ### Snowflake View Permissions: Who Has Access to What? - Published: 2024-06-18 - Modified: 2025-02-03 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/can-you-tell-who-has-access-to-what-in-snowflake/ - Categories: Data Security, Identity Security - Tags: Identity Security, non-human identities, RBAC, Snowflake In the past decade, Snowflake has grown to become the default solution for storing and querying enterprise data. Together, Snowflake’s ten thousand customers run more than five billion queries every single day. If you’re among those ten thousand, Snowflake is probably your single largest repository of sensitive data, from customer behavior, to PII, to payment info. As more and more services build on top of the data warehouse, managing access to that data only gets harder to scale. With over half of data breaches involving credentials, the most important action you can take to secure your Snowflake data is to establish tight access control and to apply the principle of least privilege to users and roles in Snowflake. However, most organizations struggle to achieve this. They have no idea who really has access to what data in Snowflake, or whether that access is being used. Let’s look at why this is, and how Veza can help restore visibility to permissions in Snowflake. Why you don’t have visibility into permissions in Snowflake today Organizations attempting to adhere to the principle of least privilege and follow identity security best practices in Snowflake are confronted by a fundamental lack of visibility into access at the object level, such as to specific tables, views, or schemas. In other words, they don’t really know who can perform what action on what data in Snowflake. And if you can’t see who has what privileges, you can’t hope to meaningfully apply the principle of least privilege. This... --- ### What is Machine Identity Management? [2024 Guide] - Published: 2024-06-07 - Modified: 2024-06-07 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/machine-identity-management/ - Categories: Data Security, Identity Security - Tags: Machine identities, non-human identities Machine identities are digital constructs used for machine-to-machine access and authentication. While machines can offer unbeatable automation and seamless operations, they can also lead to serious security risks. Just as someone can pretend to be another person online, cybercriminals can also pretend to be machines. Sometimes, it’s even easier to do so. This makes machine identity management not just a technical routine but rather a strategic necessity that must be at the forefront of our cyber defenses. This guide explains machine identity management and why it’s important, providing examples, challenges, and best practices. With this information, your organization can better understand how to protect and manage the digital identities of machines to boost your cybersecurity defenses against malicious actors, maintain the confidentiality of sensitive information, and address potential vulnerabilities in your cyber infrastructure.   What are machine identities? Machine identities are digital IDs used for secure communication and verification between machines. They’re like online passports or credentials that allow machines to recognize and trust each other.   In many large organizations, machine identities can grow far more numerous than human employees—outnumbering them by a ratio of 17:1 according to our data. The root causes for this proliferation include the spread of various software applications and the use of microservice architectures (a way of designing software systems divided into small, independent services). Examples of machine identities  Several types of Non-Human Identities (NHIs) fall under the umbrella of machine identities, including: Cloud identities and apps designed specifically for cloud environments. DevOps tools,... --- ### Achieving, Demonstrating, and Maintaining PCI DSS Compliance with Veza: A Game-Changer for Financial Services Companies - Published: 2024-06-06 - Modified: 2024-06-06 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/achieving-demonstrating-and-maintaining-pci-dss-compliance-with-veza-a-game-changer-for-financial-services-companies/ - Categories: Identity Security, IGA, Privileged Access - Tags: Compliance, PCI Financial services companies are under constant pressure to protect their customers' sensitive data and maintain compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Learn how Veza empowers financial services companies to tackle PCI DSS head-on. Introduction Financial services companies are under constant pressure to protect their customers' sensitive data and maintain compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). With the release of PCI DSS 4. 0 in March 2022, organizations must navigate a complex set of requirements and evolving threats to ensure the security of cardholder data. Failure to comply can result in significant fines, reputational damage, and loss of customer trust. However, with Veza's modern Identity Security platform, financial services companies can streamline their compliance efforts and achieve a more robust security posture. The Challenges of PCI DSS Compliance Achieving and maintaining PCI DSS compliance is no easy feat. According to the Verizon Payment Security Report, only 27. 9% of organizations maintained full compliance with PCI DSS in 2019. This improved in 2020, with 43. 4% of organizations maintaining full compliance, but these numbers still demonstrate that many organizations are still struggling. The complexity of the standard, coupled with the ever-evolving threat landscape, makes it difficult for financial services companies to keep up. One of the most significant challenges is implementing strong access control measures, which is covered under PCI DSS Requirement 7. Organizations must ensure that access to cardholder data is restricted to only those individuals who need it to perform their job functions. This requires a granular approach to access management and the ability to enforce least privilege access across all systems and applications. How Veza Enables PCI DSS Compliance Veza's Identity Security platform empowers financial services companies... --- ### AWS Guide: Access Governance, Security, Compliance & Roles [2024] - Published: 2024-06-05 - Modified: 2024-06-05 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/aws-access-governance-security-compliance-roles/ - Categories: IAM, Identity Security, IGA Master AWS access governance, security, compliance, and roles in our AWS 2024 guide. Managing access rights and security protocols in Amazon Web Services (AWS) is no small feat, and the stakes are high. Mismanaged or overlooked security configurations can become vulnerabilities and put critical data or operations at risk. Ultimately, it’s a process that demands vigilance and a deep understanding of how AWS structures its access governance, roles, security measures, and compliance protocols. This article will explore AWS access control and security, including the common challenges organizations face, from maintaining granular control over permissions in a sprawling cloud environment to ensuring compliance in an ever-changing regulatory landscape.   What is AWS access governance?   Access governance in AWS is the process of implementing and monitoring policies and procedures that determine how cloud identities (user accounts, service accounts, and roles) are managed and granted access to resources. It involves overseeing the creation, modification, and deletion of access rights and auditing them to comply with internal policies and external regulations.   Many organizations manage access governance in AWS using Identity and Access Management (IAM), which allows administrators to define who is authenticated (signed in) and authorized (has permission) to use resources.   Challenges with AWS access governance Governing access in AWS can be tricky. Here’s why: Complexity: The sheer volume and diversity of services and resources in AWS make for a complex environment. Here, managing access rights can be difficult because each service has unique permissions that require specialized knowledge to configure correctly.   Dynamism: The access needs of users and systems can change quickly... --- ### Harnessing the Power of AI: Identity Security as a Key Enabler - Published: 2024-05-23 - Modified: 2024-05-23 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/harnessing-the-power-of-ai-identity-security-as-a-key-enabler/ - Categories: Identity Security - Tags: Identity Security, IGA, Mike Towers As businesses increasingly harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to drive innovation and competitive advantage, many technology leaders are overlooking a critical foundation that can make or break their AI initiatives: identity security. AI's true potential is unlocked when it's trained on and analyzing well-curated, governed, and high-integrity data within an enterprise. Put simply, an AI model is only as accurate and useful as the data that is put into it. Security and trust teams play a vital role in enabling innovation by partnering with business leaders. They focus on elements such as data quality, data protection, and controlling permissions to data, ensuring the security and integrity of the AI-driven processes upon which businesses now depend. The Promise and Perils of AI in the Data-Driven Enterprise AI holds immense potential to transform businesses, from automating tedious tasks and deriving insights from vast amounts of data, to enabling more personalized customer experiences and empowering humans to up level their abilities. However, as organizations rush to adopt AI, they often neglect the security implications. AI systems rely heavily on large datasets, complex algorithms, and interconnected services, creating new attack surfaces and vulnerabilities. Without proper identity security controls, unauthorized access to sensitive data could lead to compromised AI models, inaccurate insights, and erosion of trust. Identity Security: Enabling Secure, Data-Driven AI Legacy IAM approaches often hinder innovation and data scaling while compromising security. Traditional tools have blind spots because they rely on data models built for an era with on-premises architectures and... --- ### What is IGA (Identity Governance & Administration)? - Published: 2024-05-23 - Modified: 2024-05-23 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/what-is-iga-identity-governance-administration/ - Categories: Identity Security, IGA Today, many organizations rely on Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) tools to manage their digital identities. In fact, the industry is projected to grow from $6. 33B in 2023 to $19. 65B by 2032. However, implementing these solutions can be difficult and time-consuming. They may lack the coverage and depth to answer the question, “Who can take what action on what data? ” to appropriately secure an enterprise’s environment. That’s why it’s important to fully understand the capabilities of an IGA tool before committing to a solution. This article explores the features and benefits of Identity Governance and Administration. Additionally, it also takes a look at why IGA may not be sufficient to manage access and permissions across your organization in today’s complex business environment.   With this information, you can make a more informed decision about whether or not IGA alone can meet your unique business needs. What is IGA? Gartner defines IGA as “the enterprise solution for managing the digital identity lifecycle and governing user access across on-premises and cloud environments. ”  IGA tools help organizations oversee human and non-human access using a policy-driven approach to manage and control access rights. They combine identity and access information scattered across an organization’s IT systems to improve security and fulfill compliance obligations—places where traditional Identity and Access Management (IAM) tools might fall short.   IGA tools also automate important tasks like onboarding or access requests (provisioning) and removing access (de-provisioning) users. This capability is increasingly useful in today’s remote-first world,... --- ### Announcing The State of Access 2024 - Published: 2024-05-22 - Modified: 2024-05-22 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/announcing-the-state-of-access-2024/ - Categories: Identity Security We founded Veza in March 2020, with an insight that in spite of all the identity and security tooling that has existed in the world, no one has been able to crack the code on - who can take what action on what data. From Colonial Pipeline in 2020 as the wake up call to fast forward four years to 2024, we as an industry have now experienced the first $1 billion dollar breach with Change Healthcare. All these breaches from - Target, Okta, MGM, Microsoft, etc. - have brought to the forefront the biggest challenge of how weak and porous our identity access infrastructure is - and, now is the time for the industry to wake up and take action. Our intuition - also from early 2020 - that all the major identity tools of today Microsoft Active Directory, Okta , Google Workspace, etc. ) are just directory services with users and groups. Directory services with users and groups give no insight to access permissions, the true form of identity. Access permissions define who can take what action on what data, all these access permissions are system-specific, and have no common language. We must organize these permissions in a canonical data model that associates identities to their effective access - only then can we truly start to work towards the principle of least privilege. Today, four years since our founding, we are even more excited with the opportunity that we see in front of us to truly help secure... --- ### The Veza Voice - Q1 2025 - Published: 2024-05-17 - Modified: 2024-05-24 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/veza-voice-q1-2025/ - Categories: Uncategorized Hello,Welcome to The Veza Voice, our regular newsletter to arm Veza customers with everything you need to be successful with the Veza platform. As you read on, you will hear & see updates across our platform and products, new integrations, strategic partnerships, Veza events & more. Before we get into anything Veza related, I wanted to highlight the single most important thing to Veza over the last 90 days: our customers. So many of the updates contained in Veza Voice have been driven by the incredible partnership from our customers and partners. We are proud of the progress that we have made in our journey together, and none of it would be possible without you. So please allow me to speak on behalf of all of Veza when I say thank you. Best,Mike Torres State of Access 2024 We’re proud to announce the release of our first annual Industry-First State of Access report! This first-of-its-kind analysis dives deep into the current state of access permissions across hundreds of leading organizations. Our hope is that the report provides benchmarks for IT, security, and identity professionals to better understand their own identity security posture and areas of focus to reduce the risk of breaches and on the journey to “principle of least privilege”. Tune in on May 16th for a virtual presentation of the findings and download the report here. Here are just a few highlights for our Veza platform and products. As always, you can check our full release notes for... --- ### Identity Security Spotlight: Ransomware attack on Ascension - Published: 2024-05-17 - Modified: 2024-05-17 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/identity-security-spotlight-ransomware-attack-on-ascension/ - Categories: Identity Security, Industry News, Thought Leadership - Tags: Identity Security, Mike Towers https://youtu. be/WgGgw1FXYFs Veza's Chief Security and Trust Officer, Mike Towers, a veteran CISO in the Healthcare and Life Sciences industries, joins us to break down the lessons from the recent ransomware attack on Ascension, a non-profit organization operating 140 hospitals across 19 states. We'll discuss what happened, how Ascension responded, and what other organizations can do to defend against similar attacks. --- ### The Imperative for Identity Security: A Call to Action for the Industry - Published: 2024-04-24 - Modified: 2024-04-24 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/the-imperative-for-identity-security-a-call-to-action-for-the-industry/ - Categories: Data Security Over the past few weeks, we have seen Microsoft’s digital identity and credential systems scrutinized by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and learned that the Change Healthcare attackers were able to deploy destructive ransomware due to compromised credentials and an application that did not require multi-factor authentication (MFA). In the case of Change, the attack is estimated to cost the company up to $1. 6 billion, and they provided an update that attackers gained access to “files containing protected health information (PHI) or personally identifiable information (PII), which could cover a substantial proportion of people in America. ” Breaches and security incidents are going to happen -- attackers are beyond relentless. But it’s important that we don’t let the high-profile headlines pass us by. As security and trust leaders, we must learn from these incidents to not only defend against threats but also to actively shape a future that enables our organizations to thrive in a secure and resilient manner. A key theme that has been building up for a while, and is now abundantly clear, is that traditional approaches to securing identities are fundamentally broken. How we got here The digital landscape is evolving at an unprecedented pace, and traditional identity and access management (IAM) solutions are struggling to keep up. Designed over 15 years ago to address the needs of a bygone era, these legacy systems are ill-equipped to handle the complexities of today's hybrid, multi-cloud world. As organizations embrace cloud computing, SaaS applications, and distributed... --- ### Veza Product Updates - March 2024 - Published: 2024-04-19 - Modified: 2024-04-19 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/veza-product-updates-march-2024/ - Categories: Product We’re excited to share the latest monthly product update, highlighting major changes highlighting major changes in March'24. In addition to new features and usability enhancements across Veza products, we've added integrations and enhanced existing ones to support a wider range of potential configurations, environments, and use cases. Please read on for details on the March'24 updates. Your feedback is invaluable, and we'd love to hear from you at support@veza. com. Access Intelligence & Visibility Enhancements Select All Permissions: When picking permissions to filter by, you can now quickly enable all effective or system permissions with a Select All option. Query Performance: Significantly improved query speed for searches returning large amounts of results. Access Monitoring Enhancements Activity Monitoring for AWS: You can now configure an organization CloudTrail owned by an AWS account other than the AWS account configured for Activity Monitoring. The trail must be specified by ARN when configuring the AWS integration. “Last Activity With Resource” Time: Query Builder now shows a Last Activity with Resource At column indicating when a principal last interacted with a resource. Snowflake Role Usage: Snowflake Local Roles now have the Last Used At attribute that shows when was this role used by any user to access a resource. Access Reviews Enhancements Review Creation: Starting a new Review now opens a full-page wizard for choosing the base Review Configuration, due date, reviewers, automation, and snapshot options. Orchestration Actions: Email notifications can now be configured to trigger when an approved or rejected row is signed off.... --- ### What is non-human identity management - Published: 2024-04-19 - Modified: 2024-04-19 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/non-human-identity-management/ - Categories: Privileged Access, Product - Tags: non-human identities Learn everything you need to know about non-human identities (NHIs) with examples and best practices for non-human identity management. All online users have identities: credentials that verify (i. e. ,authenticate) that someone is who they claim to be. But there’s also a less familiar, faceless, silent cog in our digital machinery: non-human identities (NHIs).   A non-human identity helps automated actors, like computers and devices, talk to each other. NHI management is an important part of modern business systems, especially as companies rely more on machines to communicate or in scenarios where non-human identities outnumber humans.   This guide has everything you need to know about non-human identities and how to manage them, including definitions, examples, and best practices. With this information, your organization can begin to understand the importance of managing non-human identities and how to get started. What are non-human identities? Non-human identities are the digital credentials and permissions of automated actors. They’re integral to cloud services, automated processes, and service-oriented architectures. Imagine if your computer, smart home devices, or background programs on your phone had their own “social security numbers” so they could prove who they are when they need to communicate or share information.   This helps everything work together smoothly and securely, ensuring that only the right machines and programs are talking to each other. But managing NHIs isn’t important just for technical reasons—it’s also critical for cybersecurity.   Non-human identity management organizes and protects the unique IDs assigned to machines and computer programs. It ensures that every device or software has its own identity, like a digital fingerprint, which it uses to communicate... --- ### Identity Security Spotlight: Microsoft CISA Investigation - Published: 2024-04-16 - Modified: 2024-09-27 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/identity-security-spotlight-microsoft-cisa-investigation/ - Categories: Identity Security, Industry News https://youtu. be/wfCOzcduxLU? feature=shared Veza Chief Security & Trust Officer Mike Towers, and Chief Strategist Rich Dandliker break down the recent CISA investigation into Microsoft in our latest Identity Security Spotlight. The main takeaway? 🔑 “For many organizations, Microsoft not only has the keys to the kingdom... it is the kingdom. Basic defense in depth principles tell us that we should never expect our major systems to protect themselves. ”Check out the full conversation to learn more about what happened, why it matters, and what the future is likely to bring. --- ### Veza Product Updates - February 2024 - Published: 2024-04-15 - Modified: 2024-04-19 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/veza-product-updates-february-2024/ - Categories: Product We’re excited to present the latest product update for Feb’24. Our engineering, product, and product design teams have worked relentlessly to introduce new features and enhancements to all our products, including Access Intelligence, Access Monitoring, Access Reviews, and Lifecycle Management. We’ve also added new Integrations and hardened existing integrations to support a growing range of customer environments and identity security use cases (ISPM, ITDR, CIEM, Next-Gen IGA, Cloud / Data / SaaS PAM). At a glance, the changes include: Access Reviews: Usability enhancements, including enhanced terminology, better visibility into access review decision history, and support for editing saved Access Review configurations. Access Intelligence: Faster time-to-value with new Out-Of-The-Box(OOTB) dashboards for tailored insights into Snowflake and Salesforce authorization. Lifecycle Management: Enhanced ability to review past event logs and pending provisioning or de-provisioning actions. Platform: Added support for creating team-scoped API keys for programmatic access by non-root team members. Below are detailed updates for each product area: Access Intelligence Access Monitoring for Okta (CIEM, ITDR): Access Monitoring is now available for the Okta integration. You can use the Access Monitoring page or Query Builder to review dormant access and unused entitlements for Okta users, based on their actual access of Okta apps, AWS S3 buckets, or AWS Secrets Manager secrets. Saved Query Filter and Attribute-based Filter Combinations: Query Builder search can now use combinations of attribute-based filters and Saved Query filters. Snowflake Data Governance Dashboard: OOTB Snowflake insights are now available, including inert users, roles, role access, and least-privilege anti-patterns. Salesforce /... --- ### Veza for Crowdstrike: Identify, triage and remediate in minutes - Published: 2024-04-12 - Modified: 2024-04-12 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/veza-for-crowdstrike-identify-triage-and-remediate-in-minutes/ - Categories: Integrations Veza makes it easy to find out who can take what action on what data within apps and databases across your organization - both on-premise and in the cloud. Veza automatically assesses which apps and objects are impacted by users that get flagged by CrowdStrike Falcon® Identity Protection. Veza tracks users and permissions created outside of the Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) tools to keep deactivated users from accessing sensitive data and intellectual property using the permissions that were granted directly within the apps. Ensure users are assigned the least permissive roles Monitor enterprise systems for privilege elevation and new access permissions that violate corporate security policies using CrowdStrike Identity Protection risk severity scores for all identities, including local users created outside the purview of SSO and IGA. Bring governance to data in SaaS apps For high-risk users discovered by CrowdStrike, monitor and control what actions they can take on sensitive data, and revoke access in apps like Salesforce, Box, GitHub, Zendesk, GitLab, Netsuite, Coupa, Slack, and many more to improve your security posture. Intelligent access review automation Run user access reviews on demand or triggered by CrowdStrike Identity Protection risk classification, certify and recertify access entitlements on all enterprise resources, cloud and on-premise. Understand the reality of effective permissions for any user, service account, or resource. Watch video on Youtube Crowdstrike Integration --- ### Complete Snowflake Review: Roles, Security & Access Control - Published: 2024-04-12 - Modified: 2024-04-12 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/snowflake-roles-security-access-control/ - Categories: Data Security, Identity Security, Integrations - Tags: Identity Security, RBAC, Snowflake Explore Snowflake Roles, Security, Access Control, and Privileged Access Management in our complete Snowflake guide for 2024. As companies increasingly migrate to cloud platforms for their data management needs, the demand for powerful security measures and efficient access control mechanisms has never been higher. Perhaps the most prominent example right now is Snowflake, a cloud-based data platform that has redefined the landscape of data storage, management, and analysis.   This guide from Veza dives deep into Snowflake’s roles, security, access control, and privileged access management, spotlighting the critical importance of managing access to sensitive data without compromising efficiency or agility. Whether you’re grappling with role-based access control, looking to streamline compliance processes, or aiming to implement the principle of least privilege across your organization, this post is your go-to resource for understanding how to navigate the complex landscape of Snowflake security and access management.   What is Snowflake?   A cloud computing-based data cloud company, Snowflake offers “data-as-a-service” for corporate users to store, manage, and analyze data using cloud-based hardware and software. Snowflake enables companies to gain a competitive edge with separation of storage and compute, on-the-fly scalable compute, data sharing, data cloning, and third-party tools support to scale. But it also introduces a new set of challenges in how organizations manage and secure access to sensitive data. To secure access to data without slowing down your team’s performance, you need a single source of truth to manage user permissions. Challenges in Snowflake  As a growing number of companies turn to Snowflake for advanced data storage and analytics capabilities, they face a common challenge: effectively managing who... --- ### Key Takeaways: FBI Breach Prevention Tips - Published: 2024-04-10 - Modified: 2024-04-10 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/key-takeaways-fbi-breach-prevention-tips/ - Categories: Data Security, Identity Security In our recent live event, FBI Tips on Breach Prevention and Response in 2024, FBI Special Agent and Special Assistant U. S. Attorney Donovan McKendrick provided an overview of the current cyber threat landscape, shedding light on the evolving tactics used by threat actors including those leveraged in recent breaches like Microsoft. He also shared several strategies businesses can employ to mitigate risks while collaborating with the government to stop security incidents early, recuperate costs and limit damage. Here are our key takeaways from the discussion: Ransomware evolution and tactics Ransomware has become a pervasive and lucrative form of cybercrime, reaching an estimated global damage of $59 billion in 2022. Threat actors are continuously evolving their tactics to maximize profits and the global estimated damage for 2023 is expected to be significantly higher than previous years. Several emerging aspects of modern ransomware attacks include: Sophisticated collaboration: Gone are the days of lone hackers conducting ransomware attacks. Modern ransomware groups operate as sophisticated businesses, with distinct roles such as breaching, deploying ransomware, and negotiating payments. This collaboration among multiple groups increases the complexity of these attacks and their potential impact on organizations. Cryptocurrency payments: The preference for cryptocurrency payments, particularly Bitcoin, has made it easier for ransomware operators to receive and launder ransom payments. The anonymity provided by cryptocurrencies complicates efforts to trace and recover funds, contributing to the profitability of ransomware operations. Government response: Government agencies advise against paying ransoms. That said, organizations can face difficult decisions in the face... --- ### What is Identity Security? - Published: 2024-03-29 - Modified: 2024-03-29 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/what-is-identity-security/ - Categories: Identity Security, Thought Leadership - Tags: Identity Security, IGA, Intelligent Access The importance of Identity Security has never been more pronounced in a world where 86% of breaches are traced back to stolen credentials and over 60% of compromise factors are linked to credentials. With the increasing complexity of cloud environments, the rise of remote work, the proliferation of local admin accounts and identities, SaaS sprawl, and the growing automation of cyber threats, securing digital identities is essential to protect sensitive information and maintain operational integrity.   Yet, Identity Security has blind spots. Traditional Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) tools often cannot accurately reflect the dynamic and complex permission structures across the myriad of cloud and SaaS applications organizations use today. Similarly, while Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions provide insights into the activities of known privileged users, they often lack visibility into the broader spectrum of identities and the privilege implicit in their permissions across an organization. This critical gap in visibility and control underscores a fundamental flaw in traditional Identity Security strategies: the inability to capture the complete picture of permissions across all applications and systems. The evolving digital landscape, characterized by diverse and interconnected systems, demands a new approach that can ingest, analyze, and manage access metadata from every corner of an organization's IT ecosystem. This article explores identity security, its importance, and the challenges organizations face in securing digital identities. We’ll uncover the layers of identity security, from authentication and authorization to access management and beyond, and illustrate why a robust Identity Security framework–supported by a broader context... --- ### Invisible keyholders: the importance of Non-Human Identity Management - Published: 2024-03-22 - Modified: 2024-04-01 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/invisible-keyholders-the-importance-of-non-human-identity-management/ - Categories: Authorization, Data Security, Thought Leadership In my journey across the cybersecurity and digital trust landscape, I've always been fascinated by the actors that don't take a physical seat at the table, yet hold keys to the kingdom: non-human identities (NHIs). From my experience, these faceless entities—API keys, service accounts, service principals, AI models, chatbots, vaults, KMS keys, and more—are the silent cogs in our digital machinery. Their management is not a mere technical routine; it's a strategic imperative that defends the front lines of our cyber defenses. What is Non-Human Identity Management? Non-human identity management is the discipline of assigning, securing, and overseeing the digital credentials and permissions of automated actors—software, applications, or devices—within IT environments (cloud, multi-cloud, hybrid cloud, etc. ). These identities are integral to cloud services, automated processes, and service-oriented architectures. In aggregate they can collectively have deep and broad access to many systems and resources, further widening an already challenging identity attack surface. Veza stands at the forefront of this domain, offering innovative access intelligence, access governance and access lifecycle solutions tailored for the nuanced needs of NHI management. Why Non-Human Identity Management matters The significance of NHIs has only magnified with each technological leap—cloud computing, DevOps, robotic process automation (RPA), Internet of Things (IoT), and new Gen AI advancements. They are the unsung heroes that ensure seamless operations. Yet when compromised, as I have seen in too many cases, they can silently springboard an adversary into the heart of our most sensitive operations. Beyond security, I also contend that NHI... --- ### Veza for Zscaler: Bringing least privilege to ZIA - Published: 2024-03-22 - Modified: 2024-04-12 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/veza-for-zscaler/ - Categories: Integrations 80% of cyberattacks rely on identity based techniques - stolen credentials, MFA workarounds, privilege abuse, and access creep. Traditional identity tools across PAM, IGA, and IAM were not architected to help organizations answer the question: who can take what action on what data? Beyond IAM era is here. 2024, The Year of Identity. Security leaders everywhere are looking evolve their IAM toward an identity-first approach that puts identity-based controls at the heart of enhancing their cybersecurity posture: reducing risk, delivering digital transformation and business value. In today’s fast-evolving digital landscape, ensuring seamless security and least privilege across your organization is more crucial than ever. That’s why we’ve taken a significant leap forward to empower your teams with end-to-end visibility and control over user access and security policies - from HR systems like Workday to Identity Providers (IdPs) such as Azure AD, AD and Okta, and now, extending into Zscaler cloud security platform. 🛡 Full integration with Zscaler Internet Access is now live! 🛡 What’s New? Comprehensive Visibility: See user and service accounts detailed roles and access rights in Zscaler and correlate them against your HR systems and IdPs to keep access up to date. Permissions Alignment: Ensure every user is assigned to the correct geographical or departmental policies in Zscaler, aligning with their roles and responsibilities as defined in Azure AD or Okta and remediate incorrect access . Access Reviews Powered by Automation and Intelligence: Simplify access reviews and compliance audits with our enhanced auditing capabilities. Stay ahead of the... --- ### Veza welcomes Mike Towers as Chief Security & Trust Officer - Published: 2024-03-15 - Modified: 2024-03-15 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/veza-welcomes-mike-towers-as-chief-security-trust-officer/ - Categories: Company, Industry News - Tags: Mike Towers https://youtu. be/820CRydTxhU Veza, the Identity Security company, welcomes Mike Towers as Chief Security & Trust Officer. 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. Join Mike and Veza Co-Founder and CEO Tarun Thakur to discuss Mike's reasons for joining Veza and the top cybersecurity challenges organizations face today. --- ### GitHub access control, access management, security, roles, authorization & more - Published: 2024-03-15 - Modified: 2024-03-25 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/github-access-control-access-management-security-roles-authorization-more/ - Categories: Authorization, Data Security, SaaS GitHub Privileged Access Management GitHub is the de facto collaboration platform for millions of developers worldwide, facilitating collaboration and innovation at an unprecedented scale. But with great power comes great responsibility–specifically, the responsibility to secure and manage access to the vast repositories of intellectual property it houses. Veza makes it easy for companies to prevent unwanted access to their GitHub projects. By helping teams see who has access to what, your organization can quickly find and fix any GitHub access issues before they become problems.   Keep Your Source Code Safe: Make sure only the right people can access your GitHub projects. Save Time on Reviews: Spend 90% less time checking and approving who has access to what. Stay Compliant: Meet rules and regulations without the headache. Book a demo GitHub Access Control & Security Challenges From managing access to repositories to ensuring compliance with regulatory standards, the path to GitHub security is fraught with obstacles. Ensuring the security of GitHub repositories isn’t just about protecting code: it’s about safeguarding the innovation and integrity of your entire organization. Veza is here to help you navigate these challenges effectively.   Access to GitHub Repositories  One of the biggest challenges in GitHub’s dynamic environment–characterized by the frequent creation and updating of repositories–is controlling who is granted access to which resources. This is particularly complex for organizations that utilize both private and public repositories to accommodate different operational needs.   For instance, public repositories may host user-accessible documentation, company-sponsored open-source projects, sample applications,... --- ### Salesforce security, roles, privileged access management, and more - Published: 2024-03-14 - Modified: 2024-03-14 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/salesforce-security-roles-privileged-access-management-and-more/ - Categories: Authorization, Data Security, SaaS Salesforce access control and management Salesforce is more than just a tool for sales teams–it’s where companies keep some of their most sensitive information, like customer details and financial records. But as Salesforce grows to fit your business, keeping it safe can get complicated. To do so, you must know who can access what information at all times, making sure only the right people can see sensitive data like personally identifiable information (PII).   Veza helps you see and understand who has access to your Salesforce data and ensures it stays safe. Protecting your data is straightforward with Veza: you control who accesses your data without the stress, letting you focus on using Salesforce to help your business grow. See everything clearlyUnderstand who can do what in Salesforce to quickly spot any issues and fix them before they become a bigger problem. Make compliance easyAutomate access checks and audits to save time and ensure you meet rules and regulations without the hassle. Keep access tightMake sure people can only reach the data they need for their job to keep sensitive information safe from the wrong hands. Salesforce security challenges  Keeping your Salesforce data safe comes with its own set of challenges. As your business and Salesforce instance grow, so does the complexity of managing who gets to see and do what. From making sure only the right people have access to sensitive data to removing access when it’s no longer needed and proving you’re following the rules, there’s a lot... --- ### Join us at RSAC May 6-9, 2024 - Published: 2024-03-13 - Modified: 2024-03-13 - URL: https://veza.com/blog/join-us-at-rsac/ - Categories: Industry Events Traditional identity governance tools have struggled to meet the demands of today’s modern enterprise due to outdated data architectures. In an ever-changing cybersecurity world, innovation and creativity are key. Join us at RSAC 2024 and discover how Veza’s fresh approach to access control can help you overcome the blindspots of conventional identity tools, which see users and groups but not permissions. Veza’s Access Control Platform not only mitigates identity risks, but also reduces governance costs while speeding employee access to applications and data. Learn more Visit us at booth #4225 in the Moscone North Expo for the latest updates, customer case studies and demos. Schedule a meeting with us to discuss our Access Control Platform. Redeem the code 52FCDVEZATECH for a $150 discount off the cost of a Full Conference Pass or code 52EVEZATECHXP for a complimentary Expo Pass on the RSAC registration website. We look forward to seeing you there! --- ---