Microsoft Corporation acquired CloudKnox, a transaction announced in July 2021.
CloudKnox operates in Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Identity). CloudKnox Security is a Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) provider offering visibility into privileged access and helping enforce least-privilege across multi-cloud environments. Microsoft acquired it to add unified privileged-access and cloud-entitlement management to Azure Active Directory.
Consistently protect all users and resources across multi-cloud and hybrid environments with right-sized permissions, anomaly detection and least-privilege enforcement.
CloudKnox offers complete visibility into privileged access. It helps organizations right-size permissions and consistently enforce least-privilege principles to reduce risk.Joy Chik, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Identity
Advisory firms were not disclosed for this transaction.