Authomize

Market position

Authomize competed in the converging identity governance, privileged access management, cloud entitlement management and identity security analytics market, where Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Silverfort, SailPoint, Saviynt, CyberArk and BeyondTrust address overlapping needs alongside native cloud-provider permission analysis tools. At its Series A it described itself as the first Identity and Security Management platform and said it already secured millions of identities and tens of millions of assets.

Its distinguishing element was the breadth and granularity of a cross-environment authorization graph linking identities, assets, activities and access policies, coupled with workflows that carried findings through to remediation. SmartGroups technology was used to build access models and automatically grant or revoke permissions according to the least-privilege principle, generating an Over-Privilege Index risk score to prioritize risks by severity and exposure.

Technology

The platform performed continuous discovery of identities, assets, privileges and activity across IaaS, SaaS, data services and identity providers, building an identity-to-resource graph to surface over-privilege, stale accounts, shadow admins, privilege-escalation paths and external access. SmartGroups analytics generated least-privilege access models and an Over-Privilege Index risk score, while ITDR functions detected and responded to identity-based attacks. Integrations spanned identity providers, AWS, Azure, GCP, Salesforce, GitHub and Microsoft 365, and the company published open connectors and remediation workflows for security operations tools.

Go-to-market

The company sold to enterprise security and IT teams directly from its Tel Aviv and Atlanta offices and invested in expanding a partner network following its Series A. It also maintained a public GitHub presence publishing ITDR workflows, security research and tools, and community-built connectors, and offered a Microsoft Entra ID gallery integration supporting SAML single sign-on (SP- and IDP-initiated) with just-in-time user provisioning.

Enterprise security, IAM and IT teams at organizations operating multi-cloud, SaaS and hybrid environments across a range of industries and regions.

Geography

Headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with a US office in Atlanta at the time of its Series A. Following the acquisition, its Israeli team became the base of Delinea's R&D center in Israel.

History

The company was founded in late 2019 by CEO Dotan Bar-Noy, CTO Gal Diskin and VP R&D Ron Liberman, and emerged from stealth in 2020. In May 2021 it announced a $16 million Series A led by Innovation Endeavors, bringing total funding to $22 million at that time, and it had raised $28 million across a couple of rounds by the time of its exit. Over time its positioning shifted from Identity and Security Management to Identity Threat Detection and Response. On 9 January 2024 Delinea announced its acquisition of the company; Authomize's 38 employees joined Delinea and formed the base of Delinea's R&D center in Israel.

Risks & controversies

Press coverage of the acquisition reported that the transaction, structured in cash and stock, returned investors the sum of their investment without profit, with founders mainly receiving Delinea shares. As an acquired asset, the technology's continuity depends on its integration into Delinea's platform, and competitive pressure from large platform vendors adding comparable graph and posture capabilities reduces the durability of a standalone moat.