SecurEnds reached incredible new heights in 2021! Our start-up doubled our revenue last year to surpass projections, partnered with some of the best in the identity governance space, rolled out powerful new features to our Credential Entitlement Management tool, and received recognition for being a disruptive force in the SaaS industry.

Despite everything happening in the world over the last three years, SecurEnds experienced a high velocity of growth. The shift to remote and virtual experiences leveled the playing field and truly gave our start-up and product a chance to shine. We’ve adapted to the times to create a streamlined sales process to allow for customer-driven decision-making. The Great Resignation made automated UARs more important than ever. Orphaned accounts and expanded privileges have exposed companies to increased risk and a shortage of qualified professionals has left gaps in Security and IT teams. Additionally, regulated industries are facing greater scrutiny and need to efficiently and accurately prove compliance for audits. SecurEnds was started by identifying and solving for businesses’ need to automate their user access reviews, little did we know how great the need was!

SecurEnds’ founder and CEO, Tippu Gagguturu, is proud of how much the company has grown this year, “just two years since our first customer implementation and we’re thrilled by how the market has responded so positively to our product. We’re currently empowering the world’s most forward-thinking companies to fully automate user access reviews, entitlement audits, and access requests. Demand has never been greater!”.

SecurEnds now has customers across 10 countries and in the financial service, healthcare, insurance, technology, retail, wholesale, and manufacturing industries. There is still a huge need for businesses to automate their user access reviews whether they are trying to meet compliance requirements or looking to reduce risk. In fact, we challenge the status quo by advocating for the democratization of user access reviews regardless of regulatory requirements. Abhi Kumar, SecurEnds’ VP of Product Management, expanded on this with Cyber Security Magazine here.

We’ve made our mark in the Atlanta tech-space and beyond by providing an easy-to-use tool to automate user access reviews for regulatory compliance. Our vision and mission were recognized and awarded with $21 million in Series A funding led exclusively by Elephant in July 2021. This gave us the opportunity to further develop our product and expand our team. Read more.

On the product side, we added direct and indirect connectors for on-prem, cloud, commercial-off-the-shelf  (COTS), and custom applications including but not limited to: Fiserv, SAP, Jack Henry, AWS, GitHub, and ServiceNow.  We also successfully completed SOC 2 Type II certification—an endorsement of SecurEnds’ commitment to provide enterprise-grade security, availability, and privacy for customer data. We have exciting updates coming for 2022 too!

SecurEnds welcomed our first marketing hire, Sabra Willner as SVP of Global Marketing, along with Matt Sellers as Director of Customer Success. We’re excited to grow our incredible family and will be looking to hire over 125 new colleagues in sales, marketing, engineering, and customer success roles in the US and around the globe—see open positions.

We’re excited to continue to grow our customer base by helping businesses say goodbye to the manual madness of user access reviews and turn to automations to reduce risk, meet compliance requirements, and increase operational efficiencies.

We wouldn’t have accomplished all this without the hard work and dedication of the SecurEnds team. THANK YOU!

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We founded SecurEnds more than three years ago with a vision to disrupt Identity Governance by creating a solution that is easier to use and more accessible to organizations of all sizes. As cybersecurity began to emerge as a central issue for many organizations, we noticed a growing market need to better address identity risk and compliance without the tedious processes that often accompany it.

So, we set out to build a versatile product without the constraints of incumbent on-prem solutions: a platform that could integrate efficiently into a company of any size and meet their specific needs and goals.

Fast forward to today, and organizations continue to prioritize risk mitigation and compliance, especially as they accelerate their digital roadmap across both on-prem and cloud deployments. And as part of their security and compliance standards, there is a real need for a SaaS-based product that can be easily implemented and stood up to achieve access certifications within SOX, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR, and ISO 27001.

Just two years since our first customer implementation and we’re thrilled by how the market has responded so positively to our product. We’re currently empowering nearly 100 of the world’s most forward-thinking companies to fully automate user access reviews, entitlement audits, access requests, and segregation of duty. Demand has never been greater!

To continue supporting our customers and further expand our reach, I am grateful to announce that we have closed a $21 million Series A led exclusively by Elephant. We’re thrilled to partner with them for the strategic counsel and capital needed to scale globally. You can read the full announcement here.

We’ll be using the investment – one of the largest Series A rounds in Atlanta’s emerging cybersecurity and tech startup ecosystem to date – to scale operations, to invest in product research and development and to expand into new territories across Europe and Asia. We’re excited to grow our incredible family and will be looking to hire over 125 new colleagues in sales, marketing, engineering and customer success roles in Atlanta and around the globe. We’re ready to take on the world.

To the entire SecurEnds team, thank you for all your hard work and dedication getting us to this important moment in time. We wouldn’t have reached this milestone without each and every one of you. Thank you to our early adopter customers and partners for having the confidence to work with us. We thought we had something special to offer, but you helped us prove the concept and continue to help us iterate on it to this day. And thank you to our future customers and partners – we look forward to welcoming you to the SecurEnds family.

And of course, thank you to Elephant for believing in our vision, the market opportunity, and our technology. Your partnership is critical to our long-term success.

Today is an exciting day for everyone at SecurEnds. And while we’ll enjoy it tremendously, tomorrow we get back to work. Our vision is not yet complete – we’re just one step closer on the long journey to achieving it.

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