SecZetta Third-Party Identity Risk Solution

Digital transformation initiatives—cloud adoption, remote work, edge computing, and extended infrastructures—expand business value but also amplify identity-related risk. Identity management becomes the enabling control layer because modern organizations must handle not only employee identities but also vendors, customers, contractors, and other third parties who need access to resources that were once internal-only. Treating these “non-traditional” identities as secondary, or relying on slow, poorly configured legacy IAM “border checks,” creates operational friction and leaves organizations less competitive.

A central problem is lifecycle governance: third parties may be granted access, yet their identities are often not managed securely from onboarding through offboarding. This gap is worsened by having less information about non-employees than employees, even though third-party access can carry high risk. A cited Ponemon Institute survey reports 59% of global companies (61% in the US) experienced a third-party/vendor-caused data breach. To reduce exposure, organizations should grant access based on least privilege and zero trust principles, treating all identities—employees, machines, and third parties—as equal risk until authorized.

SecZetta’s Third-Party Identity Risk Solution is positioned to address “who manages third-party identities?” by enabling collaborative, HR-aware management across HR, IT, and business stakeholders. The platform integrates with HRIS/HCM, VMS, and third-party risk management tools, and interoperates with PAM and IAM/IGA platforms (e.g., CyberArk, Ping Identity, SailPoint, Saviynt, One Identity). It centralizes non-employee data, provides configurable workflows, modern no-code administration, API access, and built-in risk monitoring with per-identity scoring and thresholds that can trigger alerts or revoke access. Vendor self-service onboarding/updates/termination, periodic self-validation, and admin attestation aim to reduce orphaned accounts and abandoned access while preserving organizational control.

• Digital transformation is described as no longer optional for organizations that want to remain competitive and deliver more customer value.
• Managing identities for vendors, customers, contractors, and other non-payroll actors is necessary because they require access to organizational infrastructure.
• A Ponemon Institute survey reports 59% of global companies experienced a data breach caused by a vendor or third party.
• The same survey reports 61% of US companies experienced a data breach caused by a vendor or third party.
• SecZetta is a privately funded US-based company founded in 2006.
• SecZetta combined two previously separate solutions into a single brand as part of a marketing and product realignment.
• The platform integrates with PAM tools such as CyberArk.
• The platform integrates with IAM/IGA solutions including Ping Identity, SailPoint, Saviynt, and One Identity.
• The product supports standards-based authentication including LDAP, OAuth, and SAML.
• The offering provides an unlimited number of portals for third parties.

• “Digital transformation is no longer optional for businesses and organizations if they wish to stay competitive and deliver more value to customers.”
• “Identity management is central to the secure and efficient implementation of any digital transformation programme and as identities have multiplied, the need has become more acute.”
• “Simply blocking non-traditional identities or applying laborious and time-consuming ‘border checks’ in the form of poorly configured legacy IAM platforms is not tenable if organizations are to remain competitive.”
• “Instead organizations must rethink how best they manage third-party identities and no longer consider such identities as less important than traditional employee identities, both in terms of value and risk.”
• “By doing this, identities can be treated as an equal risk until authorised, whether they belong to third-parties, machines, or regular employees.”
• “However, the challenge then is to manage the increasing number of non-employee identities securely throughout their operational lifecycle.”
• “The product aims to solve the question of ‘who manages third party identities?’”
• “A standout feature of the platform…is the built-in risk monitoring and assessment of identities both before and during the time they are allowed access to infrastructure.”
• “This tool is a worthy addition to the controls already provided by PAM and other existing IAM tools the organization may have in their security portfolio.”
• “This does not mean that organizations relinquish control to third parties and the platform remains in control of identities inside the organization and as part of the overall IAM stack.”