Keeper Safety acquires Glyptodon to reinforce privileged entry administration platform

Keeper Safety introduced at this time it has acquired Glyptodon, the corporate behind the Apache Guacamole distant desktop entry venture, and has begun integrating the corporate’s expertise into its platform for privileged entry administration.

Phrases of the acquisition weren’t disclosed.

Keeper Safety is backed by $60 million in funding from Perception Companions, which was raised in 2020. The Chicago-based firm was based in 2011.

The corporate affords a password administration and safety platform that “supplies organizations the overall visibility and management over worker password practices that they should efficiently implement a zero-trust safety mannequin,” stated Darren Guccione, cofounder and CEO at Keeper Safety, in an electronic mail.

‘Single supply of fact’

Glyptodon launched in 2013, and was the first contributor and moderator of Apache Guacamole, an open supply venture utilized by greater than 10 million IT professionals, Guccione stated.

“Glyptodon’s addition to the Keeper portfolio will present prospects with a strong and trendy privileged entry administration resolution,” he stated.

Particularly, Glyptodon’s expertise is offering encrypted vault storage of entry credentials within the Keeper Secrets and techniques Supervisor product. Prospects retailer and defend entry credentials—comparable to SSH keys and Home windows login passwords—of their Keeper Vault, and Glyptodon can “dynamically retrieve the credentials from Keeper when the end-user is accessing a distant desktop or server,” Guccione stated. “This supplies a single supply of fact for server credentials whereas preserving zero-trust safety and offering privileged periods with out exposing credentials to the consumer.”

Keeper Safety didn’t disclose what number of workers Glyptodon has, however stated that the three cofounders together with CEO Mike Jumper have joined the corporate. Jumper is now main the Keeper PAM growth group.