Today, independent analyst firm KuppingerCole Analysts released its 2020 “Leadership Compass: Privileged Access Management” report, naming CyberArk the Overall Leader. CyberArk has held this leadership position for five consecutive years in recognition of its consistent, demonstrated advantages over the other vendors evaluated for this report.
This Leadership Compass comes at an important time. With security teams and Identity and Access Management (IAM) leaders facing immediate challenges related to business continuity and enabling remote work, it’s important to consider the broader organizational implications of our “new normal.”
The sudden, but necessary, transformation of global workforces has dramatically expanded the corporate privilege-related attack surface. Previously unmanaged devices are connecting to networks, while a broad range of users, including IT administrators, developers and business users, require remote access.
Many of these users require privileged access to corporate resources to maintain critical activities like payroll, product development and testing, security ops and customer support. Few companies have ever had to perform these…
