A Call to Strengthen Identity Security - Review of MGM Attack
There is a growing trend of cyberattacks targeting privileged accounts, employing creative tactics to bypass MFAs, and exploit features provided by the Identity Providers. The recent MGM attack exemplifies this trend.
Spera’s Identity Role Mining Module - Automating Principle of Least Privilege
A common practice to ensure least privilege is granting application permissions based on a person's role within the organization, grouping identities into IAM groups, roles and policies, all organized to align with common usage patterns. In the dynamic business realm however, apps are added and removed constantly and users join, change roles, and leave - all without security oversight. Many are turning to Role Mining workflow to address this persistent problem.
Hidden challenges of contractor identity management
Contractors support essential business operations for many enterprises but they also represent a big blind spot for Identity and Access Management. They often remain unaccounted for and pose security challenges in many identity security strategies.
Mastering Identity Security in 2024: Strategies for Success
Join us for an insightful discussion featuring industry leaders and cybersecurity experts as they review recent breaches and advise how enterprises can better prepare for the next wave of identity-focused cyberattacks in 2024.
CSO Online recognizes Spera Security as a cybersecurity startup to watch in 2023
Startups can move faster than most established companies to fill gaps or emerging needs by innovating faster and unfettered by an installed base. The vendors listed in this article represent some of the most interesting startups to emerge from stealth mode.
Finance of America enlists Identity Security company to defend against cyberattacks
Finance of America (FoA) has enlisted the services of Identity Security company, Spera Security to bolster its defenses against cyberattacks. The move will simplify and enhance the company's response to cybersecurity threats according to Drew Robertson, Chief Information Security Officer at Finance of America.
How New Security Leaders Can Avoid Getting Lost in the Identity Jungle
The new organizational security leader doesn’t have the luxury of taking the time to learn about their new environment, policies and practices, and can’t try out different assumptions or ideas. They have to quickly map out the field with a “trust but verify” approach- who are the players, what’s the current strategy, where are its gaps and loopholes and they need to get this done NOW.
Gaining the biggest benefit with concept of Least Privilege
Achieving least privilege everywhere necessitates an endless battle against real-life dynamic business requirements. Security and IAM teams are overloaded with least-privileged alerts generated by various detection tools, most unactionable or do not translate to high-risk or impactful accounts.
Top five challenges of enforcing single sign-on in Salesforce
Salesforce is often the 'crown jewel' application for many organizations. Yet many face challenges in implementing security measures such as SSO. Here are top five challenges and how to overcome them.
Three pitfalls to avoid in Identity Security Threat Detection
With identity as the number one attack vector, environments becoming more complex and attackers improving their methods, organization often fall into common pitfalls when leveraging tools such as SIEMs and XDRs.
Until recently, many security vendors approached the identity attack vector in a very compartmentalized way. While these solutions offer broad coverage in their respective areas of focus, they are not architected to address identity security holistically. The result is often a disjointed security solution that offers only minimal identity security coverage.
It is well understood that identity-related security issues are the most common cause of breaches today. A key component of identity security is password, which unfortunately, are susceptible to various attacks such as phishing, brute force, and credential stuffing...
RSAC 365 Innovation Showcase highlights innovation in cybersecurity with a panel of experts on identity. The July edition focuses on IAM best practices, new tech available to regain control over identity sprawl, and striking a balance between strong authentication and user convenience.
Goodbyes are difficult, IT offboarding processes make them harder
Recent research found that 69% of organizations suffered loss of data or knowledge upcon departure of an employee. This finding points to a severe gap in one of the most sensitive, challenging, and potentially dangerous stage of the employee lifecycle.
Spera helps security teams to take control of the identity sprawl by providing visibility and actionable and contextualized insights into identities, permissions and actions, collected from
The CyberTech100 is an annual list of 100 of the world’s most innovative CyberTech companies. These are the companies every financial institution needs to know about as they consider and develop their information security and risk management strategies.
Dor Fledel, Spera CEO, on Pulse 2.0, Spera Security: How This Company Prevents Account Takeovers, Stolen Credentials, And Phishing
Spera Security is a company that prevents account takeovers, stolen credentials, and phishing attacks. A few weeks ago, Spera raised $10 million. And to learn more about the company, Pulse 2.0 interviewed Spera Security CEO and co-founder Dor Fledel.
IAM isn’t cutting it, Spera raises $10M for a new approach to identity security
Being able to see who has access to what is the essence of data security. Yet, most organizations are getting it wrong, with 84% of security professionals reporting that they experienced an identity-related breach in the past year.
Spera raises $10M for its identity security posture management platform
Spera, a Palo Alto-based security startup that provides businesses with the tools to proactively protect themselves from identity-driven threats, today announced...
Israeli cybersecurity startup Spera raises $10M in round led by YL Ventures
Israeli cybersecurity startup Spera Cybersecurity Ltd. today announced that it has raised $10 million in new funding in a seed round led by YL Ventures...
Spera Raises $10M to Transform the Identity Security Landscape
Spera, an Israeli cybersecurity startup offering proactive protection from identity-driven threats, today announced $10 million in seed funding led by YL Ventures, with participation from notable security and go-to-market leaders...
Spera launches seed funding round for solution that gives security teams superior identity-based access permissions
Spera’s technology allows them to fill in what have been cracks in identity access management, which they view as highly complementary to existing IAM and IGA vendors.
Spera raises $10 million to provide proactive protection from identity-driven threats
The Israeli startup developed a solution that aims to provide end-to-end identity attack surface management, risk reduction and identity threat prevention, detection, and response
A new startup wants to protect companies at their weak point: the employees (Hebrew)
Your security teams are no longer able to understand who can access where, why and how - and that means hackers will take advantage of it. So Spera want to reveal, mark and correct these weaknesses
A boost for security teams: Spera raised $10 million to identify threats (Hebrew)
The Israeli cyber company Spera raised $10 million in a seed round led by YL Ventures and with the participation of entrepreneurs and senior managers at leading companies, including Google, ZScaler Palo Alto Networks, Akamai, Zendesk and others.
"One leaked password can bring down the entire organization": Spera raises $10 million for identity security (Hebrew)
More than 80% of cyber incidents in companies are related to identity security. Founder Dor Feldel: "These are the most difficult events to identify and with the greatest damage"
