Polyrize
Polyrize was an Israeli cloud identity security startup that developed an automated platform for discovering and managing identities, permissions, and access relationships across multi-cloud and SaaS environments—enabling organizations to reduce identity-based attack surface and enforce least-privilege access.
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Polyrize built a cloud identity security platform that automatically discovered and mapped all identities (human and machine), their permissions, and access relationships across multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) and SaaS environments. The platform identified over-privileged identities, orphaned accounts, excessive permissions, and risky access patterns—enabling security teams to enforce least-privilege access and reduce the identity-based attack surface across complex cloud environments.
Commercially, Polyrize operated in the emerging cloud identity security and Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) market alongside Ermetic (acquired by Tenable), Authomize (acquired by Delinea), and CloudKnox (acquired by Microsoft). Founded in 2019 in Tel Aviv by former IDF intelligence officers, the company operated in stealth mode before being acquired by CrowdStrike in 2021 to enhance the Falcon platform's cloud identity and access management capabilities.
From a defense and national security perspective, cloud identity and entitlement management is critical as military and government organizations migrate workloads to cloud environments. Identifying over-privileged identities, enforcing least-privilege access, and detecting suspicious access patterns across multi-cloud environments directly address defense cloud security requirements mandated by zero trust architectures.
Dual-Use Assessment
Cloud identity and entitlement management directly supports defense cloud migration security, enforcing least-privilege access across military cloud environments. Multi-cloud identity visibility is essential for zero trust architecture implementation in government clouds.
Key Technologies
- Automated cloud identity discovery across multi-cloud/SaaS
- Cross-cloud permission mapping and entitlement analysis
- Over-privileged identity detection and least-privilege enforcement
- Machine and service account identity management
- Orphaned account and excessive permission identification
- Cloud identity risk scoring and remediation guidance
Use Cases & Applications
- Multi-cloud identity and entitlement visibility
- Over-privileged identity detection and remediation
- Cloud least-privilege access enforcement
- Machine identity and service account security
- Defense cloud zero trust identity management (dual-use)
- Military multi-cloud access governance and entitlement review (dual-use)
Strategic Value to U.S.-Israel Alliance
Cloud identity security is a cornerstone of zero trust architecture for defense cloud environments. Automated entitlement management across multi-cloud environments addresses critical gaps in military cloud migration security.
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