Tech giant Microsoft announced that the company has acquired a Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management company, CloudKnox Security, that offers complete visibility into privileged access. It aims to help users right-size permissions and consistently enforce least-privilege principles to reduce risk. Microsoft also stated that the acquisition will strengthen its comprehensive approach to cloud security.
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Microsoft also stated that Traditional Privileged Access Management and Identity Governance and Administration solutions are ideal for on-premise environments, but not enough for providing the necessary end-to-end visibility for multi-cloud entitlements and permissions. They can’t provide consistent identity lifecycle management or governance in multi-cloud and cloud-native environments either.
The acquisition allows Microsoft to provide its 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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