Ivanti, Lookout partner to to help organizations accelerate cloud adoption

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Ivanti, the provider of the Ivanti Neurons automation platform, which discovers, manages, secures, and services IT assets from the cloud to the edge, and Lookout, a provider of endpoint-to-cloud security, announced a collaboration to help organizations accelerate cloud adoption and mature their Zero Trust security posture in the “Everywhere Workplace.” Ivanti and Lookout have combined their best-in-class technologies – Ivanti Neurons for Zero Trust Access (ZTA), Lookout Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), and Lookout Secure Web Gateway (SWG) – to assist customers in achieving total threat prevention and data security both on-premises and in the cloud, inside and outside the network, while adhering to Zero Trust Access security principles.

The pandemic has triggered a seismic shift in where and how people work, with employees increasingly utilizing both personal and corporate devices to access enterprise resources while working from anywhere. According to Gartner®, hybrid workplaces are here to stay, with 96 percent of workers worldwide wanting to continue working remotely at least some of the time. In addition, Gartner predicts that 47 percent of knowledge workers will work remotely in 2022, up from 27 percent in 2019. (Gartner, How to Cultivate Effective Remote Work Marketing Teams, April 25, 2022). According to Ivanti’s 2022 Everywhere Workplace report, nearly three-quarters of respondents (71 percent) would prefer to work from anywhere rather than receive a promotion.

Businesses today face numerous security challenges in this new hybrid work landscape, including protecting enterprise data and detecting and preventing threats. To begin with, organizations frequently lack visibility and control over who is accessing enterprise resources hosted in both managed and unmanaged cloud locations, making comprehensive access and security governance difficult. At the same time, hackers are taking advantage of gaps in enterprise security in IT infrastructure and increasingly targeting mobile devices. According to one recent report, phishing attacks increased 700% in the first six months of 2021 alone. 

“We’re excited to partner with Lookout to help organizations solve these challenges,” said Nayaki Nayyar, president and chief product officer at Ivanti. “This partnership allows us to expand on the Ivanti Neurons for ZTA solution by adding CASB and SWG technologies via the Lookout Security Platform. Our three core technologies solve different, but equally important, security challenges. And when deployed together, they enable organizations to achieve secure cloud adoption, deliver a better end user experience and a comprehensive Zero Trust security posture.”

The joint solution from Ivanti and Lookout helps organizations better protect their data, regardless of access or hosting method, to prevent data leakage with adaptive and contextual data protection controls; enforce compliance policies with granular controls that consider device owner, resource location, current device posture and data sensitivity; and detect threats from inside and outside the network. The solution enhances Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology with User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA), provides granular per application and per device access security following Software Defined Perimeter architecture protocols and delivers CASB features to protect against data loss and data theft in SaaS applications. It continuously monitors client security posture and allows application access based on that posture. Additionally, the joint solution enables organizations to integrate cloud apps into a best-of-breed Zero Trust and Secure Service Edge (SSE) ecosystem without replacing existing solutions, thereby enabling smooth business continuity in a hybrid deployment.

“We share Ivanti’s commitment to help customers modernize IT, detect and mitigate threats, and provide a secure and productive environment for the hybrid workforce. Together, we deliver secure access and advanced data protection across all users, devices and applications,” said Jim Dolce, CEO, Lookout. “By joining forces with Ivanti, Ivanti customers now have a clear path to a Zero Trust security strategy backed by our innovative, data-centric cloud security solutions. Our solution is optimized to simplify security operations fit for remote work and digital transformation to the cloud.”


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