1Password is seeing Extended Access Management (XAM) driving growth in revenue and customers. The number of customers spending over $100,000 with 1Password has surged by 50% year-over-year and is expected to continue.
The company has also released new capabilities to improve security. Among them are integrations with Microsoft Entra and Google Workspace with 1Password Device Trust. It is also looking to manage and detect shadow IT and comprehensive login management.
Jeff Shiner, CEO of 1Password, said, “We are witnessing massive demand for 1Password Extended Access Management as businesses look to secure their modern workforce.
“We accelerated our product roadmap in response and are thrilled to share our new integrations with Microsoft Entra and Google Workspace, which will provide significant benefits for our customers, as well as propel our enterprise growth.”
What new capabilities has 1Password added to XAM?
1Password launched its XAM product in May. Since then, customer demand for the product and capabilities has led to an increased development schedule. The four new features it has announced are:
Device Trust — Available for Okta since May 2024, Device Trust is now generally available for Microsoft Entra and in beta for Google Workspace. Device Trust monitors device health in real time and addresses compliance issues before granting access to business applications for both managed and unmanaged devices.
Application Insights — Available in beta, Application Insights provides IT and security teams visibility into unmanaged applications, including shadow IT, enabling better application management and security.
User Identity — Available in beta, User Identity manages the entire lifecycle of end-user identity from provisioning access to offboarding. This capability enables customers without an identity security solution to simplify their login management and use 1Password as an access gateway to both their managed and unmanaged applications.
Universal Sign-On: Universal Sign-on now enables a unified login experience across both managed and unmanaged applications, whether accessed through passwords, passkeys, MFA, or third-party identity security solutions.
Enterprise Times: What does this mean?
These enhancements show that 1Password is positioning itself as the centre for trust when it comes to users, devices, applications and shadow IT. That’s important as many solutions tend to focus on one or two of these areas and not all of them. Integrating Device Trust with Microsoft Entra and Google Workspace reduces the risk of a mismatch of data between solutions.
One area that will interest organisations outside of IT is the new User identity feature. IT is rarely the first department to know about new employees and when someone leaves. If this feature can be integrated with Human Resource Management (HRM) systems, it closes a gap in the end-user identity lifecycle.
Universal Sign-on is equally interesting because the range of MFA solutions, including authenticators, is putting pressure on IT. Can it really act as a single gateway that supports all of the various user authentication methods out there? If that is the goal, will that be written by 1Password, or will it expect customers or third parties to do the integration?
As organisations move to zero trust, continuous device and user verification is needed. While 1Password is not yet positioning its XAM product as a key in this transition, these latest features suggest that is the direction it is going.
