{"id":1337,"date":"2021-07-28T11:27:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T11:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostingseekers.com\/blog\/?p=1337"},"modified":"2022-05-18T12:23:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T12:23:28","slug":"microsoft-acquired-cloudknox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostingseekers.com\/blog\/microsoft-acquired-cloudknox\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology Giant Microsoft Acquired CloudKnox To Augment Cybersecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft, an American multinational company, focused on producing system software, personal computers, and related IT services announced on Jul 21, 2021, that it has acquired the best cloud infrastructure entitlement management solution provider, CloudKnox Security to improve business visibility into privileged access.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stepping Up From Improved Agility to Enhanced Security<\/b><\/h2>\n

The acquisition of CloudKnox intends to boost cloud security, automated remediation, and granular visibility in the IT industry. Microsoft is further looking to implement advanced CloudKnox technologies with its cloud security services, including Azure Defender, Azure Sentinel, and Microsoft 365. Additionally, the acquisition will also be beneficial for signal enabling, integrations, and machine learning-based high-precision anomaly detection.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The CloudKnox acquisition will enhance Microsoft\u2019s security portfolio even better and deliver advanced privileged access management to enable auto-remediation proficiencies and permissions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based CloudKnox is a multi-cloud and hybrid cloud permissions management platform offering\u00a0 Activity-based Authorization solutions. The company was founded in 2018 with the aim of transforming the way large enterprises protect their sensitive cloud resources from cyber threats. Balaji Parimi, the CEO and founder of CloudKnox Security Inc. later invented a dynamic data-driven protocol to collect and analyze the human identities and real-time actions across various cloud platforms.<\/span><\/p>\n

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CloudKnox is well-known for delivering granular visibility and continuous protection to all the business cloud resources from accidental mishaps and exploitation of high-risk privileges. Its digital solutions track the identity information in AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, and VMware vSphere as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

Joy Chik, vice president for Microsoft Identity agreed that businesses do not have enough tools to manage multi-cloud entitlements and permissions. <\/span>She quoted<\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe present traditional Privileged Access Management, Identity Protection, and Administration solutions are working fine for on-premises platforms, however, there is still room for improvement. This gap can be filled by providing end-to-end visibility for multi-cloud entitlements as well as permissions to protect users and their crucial resources consistently.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Microsoft Boosting Its Commitment Towards Cybersecurity<\/b><\/h2>\n

CloudKnox acquisition is going to enable Azure Active Directory customers with better cloud visibility, advanced monitoring, and automated remediation for hybrid as well as multi-cloud permissions. From now on, Microsoft will provide powerful privileged access management, advanced identity protection, and entitlement governance including:<\/span><\/p>\n