Axiom launches its automated identity and access management platform
Summary
Axiom, a Tel Aviv-based startup that focuses on automating identity and access management (IAM) for developer platforms, is coming out of stealth today and announcing a $7 million seed round led by S Capital.The idea here is to provide a single platform that provides developers with easy access to the tools they need and security and operations teams with the security guarantees they require. Axiom promises to automatically orchestrate cloud and SaaS IAM, ensuring that developers get the least-privileged access that still allows them to get their work done without hassle while reducing the potential attack surface and the blast radius of the inevitable security breach.To achieve this, Axiom offers just-in-time access rights to developers, with a tight integration into collaboration tools such as Slack. Axiom currently mostly targets DevOps and DevSecOps teams in mid-market companies.Two megatrends are colliding to change the way we work, said Haim Sadger, founding partner at S Capital (and founder of Sequoia Israel). Axiom works at the intersection of those megatrends to enable a new era of productive security for everyone.The company was founded by Itay Mesika (CEO) and Ilan Dardik (CTO), who first met in the technological unit of the Israeli Air Force. We do this by providing dev, sec and ops teams with an easy-to-use platform that automatically orchestrates all the operations around IAM for cloud and SaaS.