CyberArk & Wiz partner to boost multi-cloud security

CyberArk and Wiz have announced a partnership aimed at enhancing multi-cloud security postures for their customers by providing improved visibility and control over privileged human and machine access.

CyberArk, known for its focus on identity security, and Wiz, a cloud security provider, are collaborating to address the challenges cloud-native organisations face with rapidly evolving multi-cloud environments and an increase in identities.

This partnership will integrate the CyberArk Identity Security Platform with the Wiz Cloud Security Platform, a combination that promises immediate benefits for customers.

Cloud environments consistently evolve, leading to a surge in identities that traditional security models struggle to manage effectively. The partnership seeks to mitigate these issues by focusing on visibility and control over privileged access, which is often granted by developers and leads to heightened security risks and compliance challenges.

Tony DeAngelo, Chief Information Security Officer at Encova Insurance, noted, "Organisations like Encova have thousands of entitlements and permissions across their cloud environments. Visibility of excessive permissions and the extent of privileged access in these environments is often difficult to ascertain, creating not only unquantified security risk but also operational inefficiencies."

The Wiz and CyberArk integration is a positive step that will allow security teams to gain insight into risky cloud access and use that knowledge to enhance identity security for IT, CloudOps, developer and machine identities, which are often highly privileged."

Hauke Moritz, Solution Manager for Cloud Security at Computacenter, highlighted the significance of the partnership for large enterprises, stating, "The integration of Wiz and CyberArk is a gamechanger for our enterprise customers.

Larger organisations manage a multitude of development projects with numerous identities and entitlements distributed across hybrid cloud environments. Gaining clear visibility into the scope of privileged access and the surplus of entitlements and enforcing proper security controls is critical for reducing risk and preventing security incidents. Now, companies can effectively mitigate cloud access risks and increase their security resilience, while benefiting from more efficient identity management."

The partnership will see CyberArk join the Wiz Integration Network (WIN) and Wiz integrate with the CyberArk C3 Alliance, aiming to enhance their joint capabilities to provide more robust cloud security solutions.

Oron Noah, Vice President of Product Extensibility & Partnerships at Wiz, expressed enthusiasm about the collaboration, saying, "We are thrilled to partner with CyberArk to help customers secure human and machine identities in the cloud. By combining Wiz's ability to analyse cloud entitlements with CyberArk's ability to enforce dynamic privilege controls to all identities, we are enabling our customers to scale their cloud operations while ensuring that privileged access is identified and fully controlled across their multi-cloud environments."

Clarence Hinton, Chief Strategy Officer at CyberArk, explained the broader context of the partnership: "Cloud development is a primary driver of vast numbers of new human and machine identities that are being created every day, by different siloes within the organisation and with differing – often unmanaged – permissions and access levels. For security teams to keep up, there is a need to rethink our approach to how these identities are discovered and secured so that this significant attack surface is understood and can be acted on. Together, CyberArk and Wiz provide this visibility, securing every identity in the cloud with Zero Standing Privilieges and at cloud velocity."