NOMINATION HIGHLIGHTS

High-profile breaches continue to demonstrate the devastating impact of compromised privileged access, with attackers exploiting trusted credentials to move laterally and exfiltrate sensitive data. Keeper Security’s zero-trust and zero-knowledge identity security platform, KeeperPAM, is built to address this reality by validating every access request, every time. Keeper’s approach treats identity as the modern perimeter and eliminates implicit trust across users, devices and systems – including activity initiated by automated workflows and non-human identities.

KeeperPAM enables zero-trust security by unifying enterprise password management, secrets management and privileged connection management within a zero-knowledge encryption model. Every interaction is authenticated, authorized and audited, ensuring only approved users and systems gain access to critical infrastructure.

Every component of Keeper’s platform is designed around zero-trust and zero-knowledge principles, including password vaulting, secrets management, privileged session management, remote browser isolation and centralized administration that governs access, policies and workflows. The Admin Console enforces role-based policies and integrates with identity providers, while access, sessions and workflows are centrally orchestrated with full visibility and auditability.

Keeper’s research underscores the importance of this approach. In a recent global survey, 40% of respondents reported experiencing a cyber attack originating from an employee, highlighting the growing risk of insider threats. Additional findings show that organizations implementing PAM and zero-trust controls experience significant reductions in credential-based attacks and privilege misuse. KeeperPAM operationalizes these principles by ensuring verified, least-privilege access and continuous validation to reduce attack paths and limit blast radius.

Keeper’s zero-knowledge architecture ensures that data is encrypted and decrypted only at the device level, never on Keeper’s servers. Encryption keys remain under user control, plaintext data is never stored or transmitted and even Keeper employees cannot access customer data. Multi-layer encryption, public key cryptography for sharing and granular access controls protect data at every stage of its lifecycle.

Keeper adopted zero-trust and zero-knowledge as foundational design principles from inception, rather than retrofitting them onto legacy architectures. This ensures that even in worst-case breach scenarios, vault contents remain protected and inaccessible.

Keeper meets customers where they work. Its Slack integration extends secure, policy-driven access governance into one of the most popular collaboration platforms globally. The integration allows organizations to request and approve access to Keeper Vault resources directly within Slack, while Keeper continues to operate as the system of record for access enforcement, encryption, auditing and compliance.