Akeyless – an innovator in the identity security market – announced a strategic investment from Deutsche Bank’s Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) group. The company – trusted by Fortune 100 companies and industry leaders – is transforming identity security for the modern enterprise, delivering the world’s first unified Secrets & Machine Identity platform designed to prevent the number one cause of breaches; and compromised identities and secrets.
Identity is now the leading threat vector and the weakest link in enterprise security strategies. In today’s modern multi-cloud environments, non-human identities of machines-like applications, automated processes, and scripts, outweigh human identities. And these machines utilize secrets like credentials, certificates, and keys to communicate with each other securely.
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“According to data we compiled, enterprises are using more than 12 tools across 15 categories and 75 vendors for secrets and machine identity management. This not only increases cost and complexity but also weakens the enterprise security posture. The strategic investment from Deutsche Bank will accelerate our mission to prevent breaches by empowering enterprises with enhanced control, visibility, and security for efficient management of their secrets and machine identities.”
– Oded Hareven, Co-founder and CEO of Akeyless Security
“We welcome Akeyless as the latest addition to Deutsche Bank’s CVC portfolio. Our focus is on strategic corporate venture capital investments in startups that use technology to either support and enable innovative services, or increase productivity of processes. We commit capital, expertise, access and resources to our strategic investments to enable growth and success.”This collaboration marks a critical milestone for Akeyless and reflects Deutsche Bank’s commitment to support high growth startups addressing today’s emerging cybersecurity challenges.”
– Joerg Landsch, Head of Central Corporate Venture Capital, Deutsche Bank
