DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Identity Defined Security Alliance (IDSA), an organization dedicated to helping enterprises keep their data secure and accessible to the right people at the right time, today announced a series of new actions and initiatives aimed at helping CISOs better protect employees, customers and partners in mobile and cloud-centric enterprises. They include: adding four member companies – CyberArk, F5, SailPoint and SecureAuth – to the IDSA’s already impressive roster; an expanded vision for standard use cases and reference architectures to be implemented by customers, solution providers and vendor alliances; creating an executive board; and launching a customer advisory board.
“The cyber security industry is extremely fragmented, with many different and often competing options and approaches to helping customer organizations tackle and solve very real cyber security problems,” said Michael Suby, Stratecast vice president of research, Frost & Sullivan. “It is exciting to see genuine collaboration forming among cyber security vendors, service providers and customer organizations that help security leaders cut through what can be paralyzing noise. IDSA’s framework for leveraging existing cyber security investments enable improved security and provide industry standards for vendors, solution providers and customers to implement robust intelligent based-access policies and controls to data and applications.”
With four additional members, the IDSA is now comprised of the following leading companies in the identity space:
- CyberArk
- Exabeam
- F5
- Lieberman Software
- Netskope
- Optiv Security
- Ping Identity
- SailPoint
- SecureAuth
- ThreatMetrix
- VMWare
These members are working together and with customers to identify, define and publish a common set of use cases and reference architectures for identity-defined security. The IDSA will publish this material so that any enterprise may evaluate the benefits and scope of this powerful paradigm. These same member companies will leverage their existing identity-related technology alliance programs, including the SailPoint Identity+ Alliance, CyberArk C3 Alliance and SecureAuth Connected Security Alliance, to produce vendor-to-vendor integrations that support the IDSA use cases and reference architectures.
In addition to new members, the IDSA today announced the creation of executive and customer advisory boards. The IDSA’s inaugural executive board, which consists of members representing CyberArk, Netskope, Optiv, Ping Identity, SailPoint, SecureAuth, ThreatMetrix and VMWare, was established to provide oversight and governance for the alliance and its members. This board is responsible for the overall charter, use case development process, and oversight of thought leadership and marketing activities to promote the work of the alliance. The executive board will oversee the development of a self-certification process that gives vendors guidelines for certifying their integrations so that customers know that vendor implemented integrations meet the minimum use case requirements.
The inaugural customer advisory board is comprised of professionals from multiple financial services institutions. This board provides input into the vision of how identity fits into the broader cyber security marketplace. It also delivers guidance on use cases and reference architectures that address the evolving security requirements of organizations.
Select Quotes from Identity Defined Security Alliance Members
“As a core component for secure application delivery, F5 has a unique opportunity and responsibility to collaborate with other vendors in the security community to help ensure security, availability and integration capabilities. The IDSA provides a great forum for F5 to work with the alliance members as well as the overall security industry to deliver validated joint solutions.” – Joe Peck, director of product management, F5
“Viewing cyber security as a team sport is an important tenet in our approach to building technology partnerships that deliver measurable, long-term value to our customers through
an integrated security stack. Joining the IDSA is an opportunity to further elevate those customer value propositions, and enhance the connection between identity and security through our privileged account security solutions.” – Adam Bosnian, executive vice president, global business development, CyberArk
“As a founding member of the IDSA, Ping has seen the alliance start to mature from initial concept to a trusted source for best practices and use cases for enterprises looking to maximize their identity and security investments. We also welcome the new members to the alliance as greater vendor collaboration advances the value of the alliance for all our customers.” – Brian Bell, CMO, Ping Identity
“A central pillar of SailPoint’s strategy is to help enterprises make their security policies more identity-aware and their identity policies more security-aware, all in the pursuit of reducing risk, protecting identities and data, and increasing compliance. The IDSA represents a unique opportunity for cross-industry leverage – spanning enterprise customer input, use case definition and prioritization, technology integration and certification, and systems integration and solution delivery – that will make it easier for identity-defined security to become a reality.” – Joe Gottlieb, senior vice president of corporate development, SailPoint
“At SecureAuth, we believe a connected approach to security is the best way to reduce the white space between point security products and keep our customers' applications and data safe. Now as part of the IDSA, we look forward to expanding SecureAuth’s adaptive access control to a larger group of cyber security solution providers, helping prevent the misuse of compromised credentials and delivering even more value to our customers.” – Mike Desai, senior vice president of corporate development, SecureAuth
Several representatives of the IDSA will participate in two sessions at the Cloud Identity Summit (CIS), which was founded by Ping Identity in 2010 with support from industry leaders to bring together the brightest minds across the identity and security industry:
IDSA Lunch and Learn: Identity at the Core of Your Security Strategy? It’s for Real, Tuesday, June 20 at 12 p.m. CT – This demo, collaboratively developed by members of the IDSA, will focus on approaches to reducing the risk of insider threat and compromised credentials by integrating existing cyber security technologies.
Identity Defined Security Panel Keynote, Wednesday, June 21 at 5:30 p.m. CT – This expert panel will discuss how identity and security are growing ever closer together, technically and operationally, and explores how this can help provide better security and improved customer experience.
Security vendors, service providers and customer organizations interested in the mission and vision, published use cases or becoming a part of the IDSA can learn more at www.idsalliance.org.
About Identity Defined Security Alliance
The IDSA is a community founded by Ping Identity in conjunction with Optiv, as the founding solution provider, to bring to the information security industry a forum for thought leadership, customer validation and education, industry supported use cases and a technology showcase, that supports redefining the approach to cyber security. Membership in the IDSA is open to end customers, technology vendors and solution providers who are committed to the vision of an identity centric approach to security.
