Silverfort

Co-founder Yaron Kassner serves as Chief Technology Officer, leading the engineering organization that built the core Runtime Access Protection technology. His background is in cybersecurity intelligence, though specific prior affiliations are not publicly detailed by the firm. The executive team operates primarily from the Tel Aviv R&D center.

Silverfort deploys inline, sitting between the identity provider and the resource, which means it does not replace Okta, Entra ID, or on-premises Active Directory. It layers on top to enforce MFA, analyze risk signals, and block anomalous authentications for systems that the existing IAM cannot natively protect. No agents or proxies are required on the protected systems themselves.

Service accounts, machine identities, non-human identities, and legacy protocols such as NTLM and Kerberos are core coverage areas. Silverfort also protects operational-technology and industrial-control-system identities, which often run on embedded operating systems that cannot support agent-based security. These categories are frequently cited by the firm as blind spots for endpoint and cloud-native identity solutions.

The firm operates a hybrid go-to-market model through a network of value-added distributors, resellers, advisory consultants, global system integrators, and technology partners, in addition to a direct sales team. Its partner page specifically calls out relationships with leading distributors and GSIs, and the contact page routes prospective partners to a dedicated channel team.

Silverfort does not publicly name excluded sectors, but its value proposition is weakest in greenfield cloud-native environments that lack any legacy or on-premises infrastructure. Pure-play SaaS companies running entirely in a single modern IdP with no hybrid footprint would derive less marginal benefit. The firm's case studies and marketing concentrate on large, complex, and heavily hybrid environments — financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, and education.