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Beyond Identity, the leading provider of secure identity and access management (IAM) platform, today announced the launch of its new channel program and the appointment of channel leader Joel Vinocur as Senior Director of Channels. The new global channel program will drive partner growth, open new revenue streams, and offer high rewards through a three-tier structure.

An accomplished channel leader with nearly a decade of experience shaping go-to-market strategies, building robust channel programs, and accelerating growth across a diverse range of organizations, Vinocur joins Beyond Identity, where he will oversee the company’s channel program by guiding sales strategy, building and fostering relationships and securing strategic collaborations. Before joining Beyond Identity, he held channel leadership roles in the threat intelligence and digital risk protection space for organizations such as ZeroFox and Recorded Future and co-founded an athletic apparel and footwear startup where he built distribution channels and cultivated independent contractor relationships to expand the company’s footprint in Europe and West Africa.

Beyond Identity’s channel program is currently available in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and it plans to expand into Asia-Pacific and Japan. The program prioritizes mutual partnership and growth and includes a three-tier system (Silver, Gold, Platinum) to drive investments in joint opportunities, marketing funds, and additional benefits for partners as they grow with the company. 

Key features include:

• New technical certification opportunities to leverage joint services engagements and platform and demo access
• Increasing levels of investment as a partner moves up within the program
• High levels of guaranteed margin/ discount for sourced, fulfilled, or co-sold opportunities
• Increased committed MDF funds for higher-tiered partners
• Access and support from the Beyond Identity team 

For more information on Beyond Identity’s channel program and tiered benefits, visit https://www.beyondidentity.com/partners.

Beyond Identity, the leading provider of passwordless, phishing-resistant MFA, today announced the release of its Secure Access Platform, a secure-by-design solution engineered to protect organizations from the sophisticated and evolving landscape of credential and access-based attacks. This announcement comes at a critical time when industry-trusted Single-Sign-On (SSO) and Identity and Access Management (IAM) tools are increasingly compromised, as evidenced by recent high-profile breaches involving major players like Okta and Microsoft. 

Beyond Identity’s Secure Access Platform is a game-changer, crafted to be a standalone alternative to legacy SSO/IAMs or an integrated platform built to harden the security posture of existing SSO/IAMs. It addresses urgent security needs by combining passwordless, phish-resistant MFA with innovative SSO and risk detection capabilities, ensuring thorough management and mitigation of access risks with a platform that can make security guarantees. 

Innovative Features Addressing Modern Security Needs

• Secure Single Sign-On (SSO): Optimized for zero-trust architectures, providing a secure by design, simple to administer, and easy-to-use passwordless user experience.
• Continuous Authentication: Validate user and device security compliance before authentication and continuously, even during active sessions, to account for risk over time, setting a new standard in access security.
• Passwordless, Phish-Resistant MFA: Eliminate phishing as a threat to organizations even if users and admins click on malicious links. 
• Device Posture Assurance: Gain visibility and control over security compliance across all devices, including unmanaged devices, providing comprehensive defenses against external threats
• Robust Integration Ecosystem: Get more out of your security stack investments by using all risk signals to make risk-based access decisions. Shift security left by not only adding detection and response capabilities to prevention. 

Discover the power of Beyond Identity’s Secure Access Platform by signing up at https://www.beyondidentity.com/products/secure-workforce. Join them for live demonstrations at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2024, booth #843, from June 3 – 5 in National Harbor, MD.

Beyond Identity, the leading provider of passwordless, phishing-resistant MFA, today announced the release of its new Device360 solution for continuous device security posture management. Device360 is the first and only device security tool designed from day 0, offering a simple admin experience, providing visibility into security posture of 100% of devices, including unmanaged devices, and combining device security with authentication. The new tool empowers organizations of any size to instantly identify device security risks, including both vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, across both managed and unmanaged devices and stop vulnerable devices from entering the digital ecosystem to prevent breaches from happening. 

Device360 addresses the rising need for organizations to prevent risks associated with bring-your-own-device, or BYOD practices, where users and collaborators can use their computers, smartphones, and other devices for work purposes. The tool empowers organizations to quickly and easily monitor the security of an entire fleet of devices, each of which may be owned, managed, and configured differently. Until now, organizations could only gain this level of visibility and proactive security for managed devices using mobile device management (MDM) and endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools, which are costly and resource-intensive to manage.

Available as a standalone solution or as a complement to Beyond Identity’s Secure Workforce offering, Device360 can be quickly deployed without reliance on MDMs. Features include:

Centralized visibility into vulnerabilities and misconfigurations

Device360 provides an overview of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across your entire fleet of devices, a central report to help track, assure, and prove device compliance, and the ability to drill down on risky devices to perform more in-depth diagnoses on device security posture.

Real-time and scheduled device query with managed Osquery

With 45 ready-made device queries, Device360 simplifies using Osquery, requiring no SQL knowledge or experience. It facilitates real-time and scheduled queries, ensuring continuous endpoint security and risk assessment over time.

Visibility over unmanaged devices

Device360 solves this challenge by combining privacy-preserving security assessments with authentication in a lightweight single authenticator that does not require administrative privileges to the end user’s device.

Test zero-trust access policies

Device360 enables policy simulation, allowing administrators to test access policies without affecting user authentication in production, enabling administrators to build complex policies and understand the impact of enforcing device trust policies per zero-trust authentication strategies.

Enforce device security compliance at the time of authentication

In conjunction with Beyond Identity’s Secure Workforce platform, Device360 allows administrators to go beyond visibility and enforce access policies using device security insights, ensuring that only compliant devices can access corporate resources and applications.

Beyond Identity provides the first 100 users a free year of access to Device360 in the product’s earliest stage. For more information about Device360, please visit https://beyondidentity.com/device360.

To learn more about Beyond Identity’s platform, including their Secure Workforce next-generation MFA solution and diagnostic tool offerings, please visit https://www.beyondidentity.com/get-demo.