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The top 67 cybersecurity startups to watch in 2023, their innovations in new and emerging technologies, length of operation, funding rounds, scalability, and more, followed by a discussion of broader trends affecting buyers, startups, and investors.

SSPM solutions are one facet of a broader enterprise SaaS security issue. SaaS-Identity risk management is an emerging principle the focuses on the intersection of identities and SaaS apps, mitigating risk at the most foundational level — accounts and access.

By managing user identities, authentication mechanisms, and access permissions effectively, organizations can bolster their security posture and reduce the risk of data breaches and unauthorized activities; the foundations of SaaS-Identity Risk Management.

Discover non-SSO apps and secure user access for SaaS that do not support federated authentication protocols like SAML or OIDC.

Discovery, govern, and prioritize shadow SaaS for integration with JumpCloud single sign-on (SSO).

Grip Security has secured $41 million in series B funding, bringing our total funding to an impressive $66 million.

Grip Security, a distinguished leader in SaaS identity risk management, is celebrating a major achievement as it announces the procurement of $41m in its Series B fundraising endeavour.

Grip Security just raised $41M in Series B funding! In conjunction with the announcement, CEO Lior Yaari answered our questions about the company, the product, the funding round and future plans.

Grip’s SaaS identity risk management is a hot one, which has helped their growth, as has the continued evolution of their channel-centric strategy.

Grip Security, a Boston-based SaaS identity risk management provider, raised $41m in Series B funding. Third Point Ventures led, and was joined by YL Ventures, Intel Capital and The Syndicate Group.

Grip Security, a software-as-a-service identity risk management startup, scored $41 million in Series B funding.

Grip Security, a leader in SaaS identity risk management, today announced it is raising $41 million in Series B funding led by Third Point Ventures, with participation from YL Ventures, Intel Capital and The Syndicate Group.

Grip Security raised $41 million in Series B funding led by Third Point Ventures, with participation from YL Ventures, Intel Capital and The Syndicate Group. The investment brings Grip Security’s total funding to $66 million and marks a major milestone for the company.

Israeli startup Grip Security has banked $41 million in new financing from a group of investors led by Third Point Ventures.

Israeli software-as-a-service security platform startup Grip Security Ltd. announced today that it has raised $41 million in new funding to accelerate its growth trajectory, including expanding investment in go-to-market teams, research and development, operational functions and global expansion.

Grip Security, which provides businesses with the tools to protect their SaaS applications and describes itself as the “industry’s first SaaS security control plane,” today announced that it has raised a $41 million Series B funding.

Tesla filed a data breach notification to Maine regulators saying a data leak carried out by two former employees resulted in the exposure of personal data for 75,735 current and former employees.

In May, American automotive giant Tesla suffered a massive data breach that exposed a range of data belonging to past and present employees and customers.

The carmaker also reported it's taken legal action against the former employees involved in the data breach, which involved more than 75,000 names.

This article takes a lighthearted approach, leveraging the captivating Mission: Impossible narrative to shed light on a serious topic and promote a heightened awareness of cybersecurity practices.

This article takes a lighthearted approach, leveraging the captivating Mission: Impossible narrative to shed light on a serious topic and promote a heightened awareness of cybersecurity practices.

Two ransomware gangs have breached the multinational cosmetics company The Estée Lauder Companies, with one attack being an apparent MOVEit data breach.

We explore the implications of identity-first security on identity governance and identity security, converged identity and access management (IAM), the adoption of the cybersecurity mesh architecture, and interdisciplinary fusion teams that will shape the future of IAM.

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. disclosed an incident in which unauthorized parties gained access to some company systems.

HCA, a Nashville-based healthcare network of 180 hospitals and more than 2300 ambulatory sites in both the UK and the US, confirmed sensitive patient information was leaked during a recent cyber attack – and is now up for sale on the dark web.

Automated, one-click user offboarding for hundreds of active and dormant SaaS services and apps

A data breach at TSMC, a Taiwan-based hardware supplier, has been confirmed to be the work of LockBit.

Taking a step back and understanding the problem of SaaS discovery, Grip has developed a method that has the advantages of all the other discovery methods without the downsides.

Stay audit-ready and enable secure access controls, protections, and safeguards for identities — whenever and wherever SaaS is used

In episode 92 of the Acceleration Economy Minute, Kieron Allen discusses a new analysis of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications market from Grip Security, which is on their Top 10 Shortlist of Cybersecurity Enablers.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has blamed one of its equipment suppliers for the LockBit breach that has exposed the chip-making giant to a $70 million ransom demand.

Grip has teamed up with CrowdStrike and its cutting-edge Falcon Identity Threat Protection module for unified identity security — whenever and wherever SaaS is used — a game-changing solution that empowers businesses to fortify their identity perimeter and safeguard modern work.

Secure user access to non-SSO apps or those that do not support federated authentication protocols like SAML or OIDC

With extensive analysis of the SaaS landscape, Grip uncovered an astounding 74,979 unique SaaS applications. Our research and global data collection have allowed us to gain valuable insights across the SaaS-Identity attack surface.

Discover the crucial role of identity management in fortifying security for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms in this insightful Forbes Tech Council article.

Unify identity policy, governance, and security across the SaaS-Identity attack surface — integrated and orchestrated with ServiceNow.

Protect your organization from security breaches with our guide to understanding Identity Access and Management (IAM). Learn how to secure your data today.

While zero-trust security offers significant advantages over traditional perimeter-based controls, it also comes with its own set of challenges. Here are the top five challenges of zero-trust security:

Channel allies become more valuable as startups look for cost-efficient routes to market and vie to stand out in crowded sectors such as cybersecurity.

More employees are working remotely on unmanaged devices and using unmanaged SaaS services, and a company’s data and critical applications are increasingly beyond the enterprise perimeter and out of the domain of SSE solutions.

Discover the limitations of SSPM in protecting the identity fabric of SaaS security and explore alternative solutions for a comprehensive security strategy.

Neutralize identity threats, stop SaaS breaches with Grip and CrowdStrike.

Leverage Torq building blocks to easily offboard SaaS users, triggering Grip workflows to revoke access to targeted SaaS, users, or both.

Here, we cover the synergy between SOAR and identity security, outlining their individual functionalities and exploring the benefits that arise from their integration.

Continuous visibility and automated action to secure the SaaS-Identity attack surface.

When a data breach occurs at a critical SaaS provider and gains media attention, it often creates a sense of urgency for security teams.

Identities are assets, not people. And for more than a decade, the enterprise identity fabric has been one of the most difficult attack surfaces to contain or protect. Security teams are confronting these challenges with visibility to their SaaS-Identity attack surface and establishing identity-first security.

Learn how to extend zero trust security to SaaS apps you don't control. Discover strategies and best practices to enforce identity security policies.

CIO Influence Interview with Lior Yaari, CEO, Grip Security, discusses on the “adaptive security” management from a modern context.

Delivering on top cloud security priorities — visibility, risk, and access control — across the enterprise SaaS layer.

Over time, employees can have hundreds of SaaS accounts, with the average user having 182 SaaS relationships. Many are dormant or unused, but they may contain sensitive or confidential company information or data that should be secured also known as SaaS security.

The nature of the risks are different, which is why security is a significant focus of digital transformation initiatives. For SaaS in particular, there are a set of best practices CISOs can implement that can help companies embrace digital transformation and balance their risk management policies with the business objectives.

Access control and management are central components of SaaS-Identity security. Sprawling SaaS services can expose companies to several risks if left unchecked, nearly all of which compromise corporate identities. This guide helps security leaders achieve more effective SaaS-Identity access management and control.

We talked to 100+ CISOs to understand how SSO helps them with SaaS-Identity security and why more SaaS applications are not monitored through their SSO implementations. Security leaders shared the five key reasons for why SSO is not able to fully solve the SaaS-Identity security or complexity.

Protect your organization with Identity Fabric for Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR). Learn how to enhance security and mitigate identity-related risks.

To secure SaaS properly requires an architectural change, where there is a SaaS security control plane that discovers, prioritizes, secures, and orchestrates security. Implementing a strategy with this approach can help companies address the following five risks every company needs to address.

Based on the work Grip has done with hundreds of companies, we have seen the following five step framework highly effective in helping companies create a secure, workable framework — safeguarding identities, whenever and wherever SaaS is used.

Every new Gartner magic quadrant complicates the marketplace but at the same time helps us understand the other vectors we need to protect. Do new categories of security products help or hurt the industry? Listen to the podcast, Defense in Depth to find out.

18 members of Forbes Technology Council speculate about some of the functions and features mobile devices might have within 10 years and how those advances will change what users can do with them.

Leading American payment services firm NCR has disclosed it suffered a ransomware attack targeting a data center in Aloha, Hawaii.

Thousands of restaurants impacted by what Aloha PoS parent company NCR says was a ransomware attack on one of its data centers.

While zero-trust security offers significant advantages over traditional perimeter-based controls, it also comes with its own set of challenges. Here are the top five challenges of zero-trust security:

We examined the risks of identity sprawl across 46 unique enterprises, constructing a SaaS-Identity fabric and found that every organization is affected by the ever-expanding growth of SaaS and identity decentralization.

In the latest episode of the Cybersecurity Minute, an Acceleration Economy analyst discusses Grip Security and how it fits into SaaS security.

Get a full understanding of cloud identity security and how to use it to enhance security and stay ahead of the game with this comprehensive guide.

The members of Forbes Technology Council share the details (both positive and negative) they watch for when assessing job candidates and why they’re so important.

Take control of SaaS security with our guide on SaaS risk management. Learn best practices to minimize threats and protect your data.

11 Forbes Technology Council members, including Lior Yaari, share some key tech skills and related knowledge they believe every professional should have, even if just at a basic level.

Understand what an identity fabric is and its significance for modern Identity Security. Learn why it's crucial for protecting digital identities.

Unlock the power of Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture (CSMA) to enhance SaaS security. Discover how it can improve compliance and protect your organization in our guide.

Grip was built for the way SaaS is consumed across our users, focusing on visibility and identity risks for all SaaS classes and types, especially those self-provisioned by users.

Grip Security, a Boston, MA and Tel Aviv, Israel-based SaaS security company unifying discovery, access control and data governance, received an investment from The Syndicate Group.

Lior Yaari, a Forbes Technology Council Member, discusses the use of an identity fabric as a solution for managing identity sprawl and enhancing security in today's complex digital environments.

DC Health Link, the health insurance marketplace for the District of Columbia, has suffered a breach that exposed personal data belonging to lawmakers and staff in both chambers of US Congress.

SSPM is a critical layer in your identity fabric because it helps you manage and secure your SaaS environment, which is an environment packed with corporate identities — past, present, and future.

Improve SaaS security with identity governance and administration. Learn how to secure user access, automate compliance & improve user management in our guide.

The key areas that impact how organizations tackle the NYDFS standards in a SaaS-first, distributed identity reality, along with specific ways Grip can help.

Implementing identity security solutions like Grip can also help reduce manual errors to construct the enterprise identity fabric and automate protection for identities whenever and wherever SaaS is used.

A panel of Forbes Technology Council members, which includes Lior Yaari, recommended these 16 smart methods that can help you identify the features employees want and the problems they face.

The US Marshals Service (USMS), tasked with hunting fugitives and managing the witness security program, was hit by a “major” ransomware incident and data breach in mid-February, officials said.

Learn about the key components & benefits of Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture (CSMA). Enhance security and stay ahead of the game with this comprehensive guide.

The U.S. Marshals Service was hacked earlier this month, compromising sensitive information, an agency spokesperson confirmed Tuesday.

The US Marshals Service suffered a data breach over a week ago that compromised sensitive information, including law enforcement data and the personally identifiable information of employees and those under investigation.

The US Marshals Service (USMS), which is tasked with hunting down fugitives and administering the Witness Security Program, was hit with a "major" ransomware incident and data breach in mid-February, officials said.

The cybersecurity mesh architecture (CSMA) proposed by Gartner attempts to define a framework that achieves the objective of an integrated approach that is flexible, scalable, and risk based.

Leveraging identity as the key control point can enable security services to work together and deliver and improve the security posture while maintaining agility to adapt to evolving needs.

The identity control fabric is an emerging approach to managing identity in the enterprise. An identity control fabric provides a unified and secure way to manage identity across multiple systems, SaaS services, and platforms.

An explosion of SaaS adoption has led to unprecedented identity sprawl with some employees creating hundreds of SaaS accounts over the time. Most of these accounts are created with just an email and password, and this has now become the new perimeter for the modern enterprise.

Credential theft is when hackers use the logins and passwords of active users to gain access to sensitive and private data. Learn about credential theft with Grip.

NFP spends 80% less time mitigating SaaS identity risk and reduced IAM costs by $800K per year. NFP’s security team tuned controls for their business-led IT reality, all while maintaining high security standards for SaaS and identities — past, present, and future.

Mobile communications giant T-Mobile suffered a massive data breach last month that impacted approximately 37 million customers. Yesterday, Google’s telecommunications service, Google Fi, informed its customers that their data were involved in the breach.

Google Fi said customer data has been compromised by hackers, and the incident is most likely linked to the massive T-Mobile hack on January 19.

Google Fi mobile customers have been alerted that their SIM card serial numbers, phone numbers, and other data were exposed in T-Mobile hack.

Learn more about how to handle the top SaaS security concerns related to visibility, risk, and identity threats to protect your organization’s SaaS security.

Google LLC recently informed customers of Google Fi, the company’s mobile virtual network operator service, that their data may have been breached because of “suspicious activity relating to a third party system that contains a limited amount of Google Fi customer data.”

UK sportswear retailer JD Sports is warning some 10 million of its customers that their personal data — including name, billing address, delivery address, email address, phone number, order details, and last four payment card digits — might have been exposed in a recent cyberattack.

Canadian running gear retailer the Running Room experienced a data breach in which intruders might have accessed personal customer data over the last several months.

JD Sports has confirmed that a cyber-attack that hit the company between 2018 and 2020 may have resulted in the data leak of 10 million customers.