The Future of Machine Identity

The biggest challenge today in the digital security sphere is securing machine identities -the digital entities such as APIs, software applications, and IoT devicesthat are constantly being targeted due to the changing nature of cyber threats.

- Aanchal Ghatak

CyberArk's Kurt Sand, General Manager of CyberArk's Machine Identity Security business, discusses CyberArk's journey into new frontiers of identity security for human and machine users. With its recent acquisition of Venafi, CyberArk is doubling down on securing machine identities, equipping organizations to reduce vulnerabilities at scale and protect their most valuable digital assets. Here in this conversation, Sand spoke about emerging threats, role for AI, and CyberArk's strategy in framing the identity security of tomorrow.

Could you start by giving a brief overview of CyberArk and its mission?

At CyberArk, our mission is to secure every identityboth human and machine-with appropriate privilege controls. We view identities as a broad spectrum, ranging from workforce identities and administrators to developers and machine identities. CyberArk's goal is to enable businesses to operate securely and efficiently, especially as we're seeing over 90% of organizations report identity-related incidents, making this mission essential to building resilience.

CyberArk recently acquired Venafi, a leader in machine identity security. The strategy behind this acquisition?