Microsoft has acquired “CloudKnox”, a cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management solution that provides role & access permissions management across both on-prem & cloud, while also providing granular visibility, automated remediation, and continuous monitoring.
The combination of CloudKnox + Azure AD will give enterprise customers unmatched multi-cloud identity security and governance!
The acquisition of CloudKnox further enables Microsoft Azure Active Directory customers with granular visibility, continuous monitoring and automated remediation for hybrid and multi-cloud permissions. We are committed to providing our customers with unified privileged access management, identity governance and entitlement management including:
- Automated and simplified access policy enforcement in one integrated multi-cloud platform for all human and workload identities.
- The widest breadth of signal-enabling, high-precision machine learning-based anomaly detections.
- Seamless integration with other Microsoft cloud security services, including Microsoft 365 Defender, Azure Defender and Azure Sentinel.
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Read about the acquisition here:
- Microsoft acquires CloudKnox Security to offer unified privileged access and cloud entitlement management
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2021/07/21/microsoft-acquires-cloudknox-security-to-offer-unified-privileged-access-and-cloud-entitlement-management/
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