Additional Info

CompanyAndromeda Security
Websitehttps://www.andromedasecurity.com/
Company size (employees)10 to 49
Headquarters RegionNorth America

Overview

Andromeda Security automates permissions and lifecycles for human and non-human (NHI) identities in Cloud and SaaS environments and provides complete visibility, dynamic least privilege, intelligent just-in-time (JIT) access, and automated user access reviews (UAR).

To future-proof identity access, we take a dynamic, risk- and context-based approach instead of static entitlements and manual approvals. Our data-centric solution achieves both security and business agility – missing elements in today’s fragmented and siloed identity security landscape.

At the solutions’ core is our identity resource graph overlaid with purpose-built AI/ML models and advanced analytics to increase visibility, reduce complexity, and combat the mounting challenges arising from identity sprawl, excessive privileges, and manual processes.

Our Vision: Even if an identity is compromised, there will be no business impact.

Andromeda Security Modules:

Human + NHI Security: Centralized inventory to understand your entire identity landscape. We surface insights into high-risk areas, provide a score with risk level, and make actionable recommendations to fix issues based on the user’s role, risk, usage, and behavior context.

Dynamic Least Privilege: Achieve true least privilege. Score risk and rightsize permissions to low-risk standing privileges based on role and access. Classify entitlements as high-risk, low-risk, and frequently used, to recommend optimal roles that maintain least privilege. Automate approvals of low-risk access requests based on dynamic risk evaluation.

Just-in-Time (JI) Access: Improve business agility by automating permanent standing/low-risk workflows and moving all high-risk access to JIT. Analyze factors like the user’s risk profile, recent activities, location, and device to make decisions rather than relying on static entitlements. Integrate access requests and approval processes directly into collaboration tools like Slack and Teams, providing context to approvers.

Governance & Compliance: Automate user access reviews (UAR) and provide AI-powered detailed session recordings and analysis of cloud activities, identifying high-risk actions and anomalies to report and surface to managers.

Key Capabilities / Features

Andromeda Security Modules:


Human + NHI Security: Centralized inventory to understand your entire identity landscape. We surface insights into high-risk areas, provide a score with risk level, and make actionable recommendations to fix issues based on the user's role, risk, usage, and behavior context.


Dynamic Least Privilege: Achieve true least privilege. Score risk and rightsize permissions to low-risk standing privileges based on role and access. Classify entitlements as high-risk, low-risk, and frequently used, to recommend optimal roles that maintain least privilege. Automate approvals of low-risk access requests based on dynamic risk evaluation.


Just-in-Time (JI) Access: Improve business agility by automating permanent standing/low-risk workflows and moving all high-risk access to JIT. Analyze factors like the user's risk profile, recent activities, location, and device to make decisions rather than relying on static entitlements. Integrate access requests and approval processes directly into collaboration tools like Slack and Teams, providing context to approvers.


Governance & Compliance: Automate user access reviews (UAR) and provide AI-powered detailed session recordings and analysis of cloud activities, identifying high-risk actions and anomalies to report and surface to managers.


How we are different

Why different? Data-centric and Context-based.


We take a data-centric and context-based approach to identity and access management rather than relying on static entitlements and manual processes for greater security and business agility.


A holistic data-centric approach means Andromeda can solve multiple use cases under the same umbrella to future-proof the identity access landscape. Overlaying AI models to provide context enables Andromeda to provide the intelligence that has been missing to make fast and secure decisions.


Consolidating disparate identity data sources, including IdP, HR systems, cloud providers, and activity logs, enables more effective analysis and decision-making and makes it possible to gain a holistic view of the identity ecosystem to:


Run comprehensive machine learning models for risk scoring and behavioral analysis
Perform real-time visibility checks on who has access to what and how those accesses are being used
Make more informed decisions about access rights and permissions based on usage patterns and risk assessments.
Implement more effective just-in-time (JIT) access controls by considering context and behavioral analysis


Data allows us to identify anomalies like local break glass accounts without MFA, which malicious actors could potentially abuse.


Andromeda provides true least privilege with human and NHI permissions rightsizing and recommendations that suggest optimal roles that minimize risk.


Our JIT aligns with the zero trust principle of "never trust, always verify." High-risk access is granted for a limited time window, after which the permissions are automatically revoked. Most solutions focus solely on role recommendations rather than incorporating real-time risk analysis into the access control process.


NHI: We go beyond credentials rotation and lifecycle to look at permissions and roles. For example, an AWS role that is trusted by another role in a third-party AWS account. There is no key. It's a role-to-role trust and needs only the right permissions to ensure that no one compromises this role or the identity using


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