“Zilla’s Modern IGA SaaS platform automates the processes of identity compliance, provisioning, and security.”

Zilla Security, Inc., founded by the team behind the revolutionary Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) technology at Aveksa has reshaped the identity governance landscape for modern organizations. In an era dominated by decentralized cloud and SaaS applications, Zilla Security provides a transformative solution that simplifies identity compliance, provisioning, and security for businesses of all sizes. As the digital platform landscape continues to evolve, traditional identity governance models struggle to keep up, making it increasingly difficult to meet the demands of today’s fast-paced business environment. In this context, Zilla Security’s Modern IGA SaaS platform stands out as a more agile, scalable, and efficient alternative to legacy solutions. By utilizing advanced automation and AI, Zilla Security enables organizations to quickly address identity management challenges and streamline their security and compliance processes, empowering them to stay ahead in the digital age.

The platform boasts the reputation of its speed to value; it seamlessly integrates with commonly used and custom applications, making it flexible enough for organizations that have varied technology ecosystems. One of the innovations that Zilla Security is known for is its Zilla AI Profiles™, which automatically create and update roles and groups. This means less manual intervention and more efficiency in identity management. This automation will allow businesses to deploy the platform 5X faster, cut access review time by 80%, and reduce ITSM tickets by 60%. What sets Zilla Security apart is that all this can be achieved without requiring developers or consultants, so a business can get the solution up and running in just a matter of days.

By providing its cutting-edge identity governance approach, Zilla Security helps organizations streamline the complexity of modern security and compliance requirements so they can operate more securely, efficiently, and confidently in the digital age. The company’s headquarters is located in Boston, MA, and it is backed by prominent investors, including Tola Capital, First Mark Capital, and Pillar VC.

Advanced Security and Compliance Solutions by Zilla Security

Access Visibility & Insights

Zilla Security's access visibility and insights service allows organizations to gain a unified and comprehensive view of all identities along with their respective permissions across the digital estate. This capability lets businesses gain an organization-wide understanding of sensitive access, such as privileged access to systems and critical data. The Zilla Security platform enables a system of record for all human and machine access with continuous monitoring of any changes so that up-to-date, accurate access tracking can be ensured.

Zilla Security provides granular visibility into human and machine identities, allowing organizations to identify service accounts, orphan accounts, third-party access, and SaaS API integrations. By tracking complex permissions including effective permissions that are acquired through application-specific policies, roles, and group memberships, Zilla Security allows businesses to visualize access paths and minimize identity-related risks.

Zilla Security’s powerful search functionality empowers businesses to create custom queries to explore and analyze their identity and access fabric across accounts, permissions, and security findings. This level of insight provides invaluable data for reducing the identity blast radius, tighter security controls, and better governance of access rights.

With the help of Zilla Security’s access visibility and insights, businesses can detect vulnerabilities before they strike and simplify their identity governance, thus enhancing their security posture across an increasingly complex digital landscape.

Identity Security Posture Management

Zilla Security's identity security posture management service helps organizations harden their identity security posture by maintaining least privilege access and closing potential security gaps. Zilla Security’s policies continuously monitor identities and permissions across the enterprise, ensuring that access rights align with job responsibilities while automating least privilege enforcement. The platform actively detects misconfigurations, alerting organizations to vulnerabilities and offering automated remediation options.

Zilla Security solution ensures the right size of permissions in order to end the problems that arise due to over-accessed permissions or due to hidden effective permissions between human and machine identities. The platform proactively protects identity posture through termination of access, alerting stakeholders, or by automatically enforcing security workflows. Zilla Security prevents risky misconfigurations related to identity federation and group memberships.

It detects and responds to common access misconfigurations such as service accounts with no business justification, orphan accounts left behind after employee terminations, excessive third-party permissions, and unused accounts. Zilla Security also helps in ensuring segregation of duties controls and addresses missing or incorrect Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) settings. By providing end-to-end visibility into identity-related security risks and offering automated remediation of them, Zilla Security enables organizations to continuously maintain a secure, least-privilege access model while reducing their attack surface.

Identity Threat Detection

Zilla Security provides a real-time identity threat detection that stops and remediates identity and access threats. The policy engine from Zilla Security scans continuously all identity data across the enterprise for any changes, new accounts, or group membership modifications; if anything has the potential to be a threat, Zilla Security responds. Users can make use of out-of-the-box policies or configure their own policy as per the need in their environment. Zilla Security will identify suspicious activities such as changed permissions or altered accounts, stop threats before their exploitation, and initiate automated remediation workflows for email, Slack, or Teams notifications to guarantee swift action. Moreover, it integrates well with SOC, SOAR, and XDR systems to streamline the threat response workflows and enhance security operations at large to protect against identity-based attacks.

User Access Reviews

Zilla Security provides a comprehensive, automated solution for user access reviews, simplifying compliance management for organizations. With a focus on ensuring continuous audit-ready compliance, Zilla Security eliminates the need for manual processes and spreadsheets, offering an intuitive, streamlined experience for managing user permissions. Organizations can fully automate quarterly review campaigns to comply with critical regulations like SOX, HIPAA, GLBA, PCI, NYDFS, and SOC 2.

Zilla Security’s platform allows for customization in access reviews, including by department, privileged users, external users, new users, and data resource or permission owners. The automation system generates relevant permissions for campaigns, invites reviewers, and tracks progress. Administrators maintain complete control over the process, while reviewers can update, revoke, change, or delegate permissions with ease. This results in a seamless, auditable review process that is both efficient and secure.

The service also supports supervisory reviews, app owner reviews, and data resource or permission owner reviews. It is possible to have supervisors review permissions for their teams, whereas application owners may focus on access to their applications. Zilla Security automatically assigns the review responsibilities according to ownership to ensure a clear and manageable process for everyone involved.

In addition, Zilla Security integrates seamlessly with a wide range of services, including SaaS applications, cloud platforms like AWS and Azure, on-premises apps, and even homegrown solutions. It collects and correlates account and permission data from all deployed services, offering a unified view of user access and ensuring compliance. Zilla Security is the solution to simplify and automate the complex task of user access reviews, helping organizations maintain strong security and compliance standards.

Audit Readiness

Zilla Security provides a robust solution for organizations as it supports firms to achieve and maintain audit readiness. The tool can reduce the amount of time devoted to audit preparation by up to 80%, which ensures that businesses are always well-prepared with the evidence required to prove compliance. Any data collection activity undertaken is logged, which provides a time-stamped record of all information brought into the system and all review actions; thus, it makes audits quicker and more efficient.

Zilla Security automates security data collection for access reviews and compliance audits. The chain of custody is maintained while supporting evidence and integration happens seamlessly through API calls, flat-file imports, Zilla Universal Sync (ZUS), and other methods. Weeks of manual effort are thus eliminated.

It follows all changes and activities that are done in the review process by maintaining an audit log for every campaign. Zilla Security captures administrator and reviewer activities, such as configurations, access decisions, re-assignments, delegations, and decision comments. The system also tracks the change tickets that are issued to the ticketing systems after reviewing campaigns.

Zilla Security simplifies the process for auditors as it provides reports and logs, detailing everything from data collection to review actions. It shows how effective the review process is, and compliance will be easy with it, hence helping organizations pass audits with confidence.

Deepak Taneja - CEO and Co-Founder

Deepak Taneja is the CEO and Co-Founder of Zilla Security. He has years of experience as an entrepreneur and security expert. Mr. Deepak was a pioneer in identity management. He founded Aveksa, which became the leader in identity governance, and later became the CTO for Identity at RSA Security after RSA acquired Aveksa. Deepak also was the CTO at Netegrity, where he helped transform SiteMinder into one of the top access management platforms. He is a very strong advocate for the entrepreneurial community of Boston. Deepak advises and sits on the board of various startups. Deepak holds a degree in electrical engineering from IIT Kanpur and from the University of Florida.

"Zilla Security is remaking identity governance for the digital age, empowering businesses to deploy faster, reduce risks, and maintain a secure, least-privilege access model in an increasingly complex digital landscape."