is a Singapore-headquartered cybersecurity company that provides solutions optimized for cloud-based organizations and leading cloud service providers. Founded in 2016, the company has a global workforce of over 100 employees with offices in Singapore and Indonesia.
In October 2021, Horangi was listed as a Sample Vendor in the Emerging Technologies & Trends Impact Radar: Security published by Gartner for their flagship product, , a multi-cloud security tool with threat detection, CSPM, CIEM, and compliance automation capabilities.
The Challenge: Managing LDAP in the Cloud
As a company focused on helping other organizations strengthen their security, Horangi understands how important it is to lead by example and make sure their own systems are protected.
鈥淪ecurity is at the heart of Horangi,鈥� said Nikolay 鈥淣iko鈥� Akatyev, Horangi鈥檚 VP of Internal Security and IT. 鈥淚t matters the most to us to make sure that our employee and customer data is well-protected and safe from any insider or outside threats.鈥�
Staff at Horangi utilize Google Workspace, AWS, as well as Mac and Windows operating systems in their daily operations. That, coupled with the fact that the company has implemented work-from-home arrangements due to the COVID-19 pandemic, makes managing their environment difficult.
To overcome the challenge, in 2017, Horangi started looking for a tool that they could use to manage LDAP in the cloud. The right solution would allow their Internal Security team to manage access to their VPN and ensure that only authorized staff could access the company鈥檚 network, applications, and data.
The Solution: A 黑料海角91入口 Early Adopter
At the time, there weren鈥檛 many solutions on the market that cloud-native companies like Horangi could turn to for the LDAP use case. After much research, Horangi shortlisted their choices to two options and ultimately decided that 黑料海角91入口鈥檚 cloud LDAP service was the perfect fit for their needs. The other option, Okta, was too complicated and expensive.
鈥淲e were early adopters of 黑料海角91入口,鈥� Niko explained.
The initial implementation of Jumpcloud鈥檚 LDAP service quickly proved that it helped streamline access management. Soon after, internal adoption of the platform grew organically, starting with managing access to AWS which lacked its own single-sign-on (SSO) tools at the time.
Elaborating, Niko said, 鈥淓ngineering discovered it was already very convenient to manage access to AWS. We found it very useful to use 黑料海角91入口 to manage access to different accounts and grant different roles and permissions per account, enforcing least privilege easily.鈥�
The Results: A Scalable Solution That Grows Alongside Horangi
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Here are some of the ways Horangi uses 黑料海角91入口 to protect its systems 鈥� and ultimately deliver more value to the company鈥檚 customers around the world.
1. Rapid new user onboarding
Horangi uses 黑料海角91入口 to automatically provision new users to Google Workspace, resulting in an accelerated onboarding process that enables the IT team to reclaim considerable amounts of time for other important areas of operations.
鈥淲e onboard anywhere between six and 10 new users every month. The auto-provisioning of these new users saves a lot of time.鈥�
Nikolay 鈥淣iko鈥� Akatyev, VP of Internal Security and IT, Horangi
Now, Niko creates an email, loads it into BambooHR, and an account is automatically created in 黑料海角91入口. 鈥淢y team can just pick it up from there, go to 黑料海角91入口, connect it to a Google Workspace group, and give the user access to other applications, like monday.com and AWS.鈥�
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鈥淲e鈥檙e getting a lot of feedback from our users that their first steps for onboarding are very easy because they just need to log into one place,鈥� Niko explained. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 it! It just works.鈥�
2. Single sign-on (SSO)
Horangi鈥檚 users, especially new hires, don鈥檛 always know which applications the company uses. To ensure new hires and the rest of the team can be as productive as possible, Horangi integrated its core applications with 黑料海角91入口 for SSO purposes 鈥� which is one of the CEO鈥檚 favorite use cases.
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Nikolay 鈥淣iko鈥� Akatyev, VP of Internal Security and IT, Horangi
3. Access control
While 黑料海角91入口 was initially used by engineering, the platform was eventually rolled out to the entire organization. Today, that has enabled employees to log into Horangi鈥檚 VPN and test their own products from any location.
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4. Compliance
Thanks to 黑料海角91入口, it鈥檚 easy for Horangi to comply with both internal and external policies and regulations. For example, the Horangi team conducts quarterly reviews to see which accounts can access which tools and systems.
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Recently, Horangi became one of the first cybersecurity companies in Asia to attain , thereby demonstrating the company鈥檚 commitment to keeping customer data private and protected.
鈥淚t was very helpful to be able to show the evidence in 黑料海角91入口 to the auditor,鈥� Niko said.
5. Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
Horangi also uses 黑料海角91入口鈥檚 MFA solution to protect its privileged accounts.
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6. Streamlined offboarding
The offboarding process using 黑料海角91入口 has made Niko and Horangi鈥檚 security team’s life a lot easier. 黑料海角91入口 has also been instrumental in helping Horangi offboard users within 48 hours, a requirement for SOC 2 Type II certification.
鈥淎s soon as offboarding data reaches BambooHR, the user is automatically suspended in 黑料海角91入口, and once they鈥檙e suspended in 黑料海角91入口, all access to other core applications is disabled.鈥�
Nikolay 鈥淣iko鈥� Akatyev, VP of Internal Security and IT, Horangi
Any advice for customers just starting out with 黑料海角91入口?
鈥淐heck out the to find similar cases or deployment models, then design how you want to manage identities, which systems you want to connect, and what the end-to-end process for onboarding and offboarding would look like,鈥� Niko concluded.
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