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Silverfort
Silverfort was founded by CEO Hed Kovetz and CTO Yaron Kassner, veterans of the Israeli cybersecurity and intelligence ecosystem.
Silverfort
Silverfort was founded by CEO Hed Kovetz and CTO Yaron Kassner, veterans of the Israeli cybersecurity and intelligence ecosystem. The company emerged from a deceptively simple observation: every enterprise runs critical on-premises applications, legacy protocols, and service accounts that cannot support modern identity protection, yet attackers compromise these blind spots routinely. Silverfort's architecture inserts itself directly into the authentication flow, applying policy and enforcement without requiring agents, proxies, or application rewrites. The platform spans four operational domains: discovery of all identities across hybrid environments, risk analysis driven by user and machine behavior, inline enforcement of multi-factor authentication and access policies at the moment of authentication, and active breach containment. Asset-class exposure is purely venture-capital and growth-equity, with the company backed by a syndicate that includes Acrew Capital, Greenfield Partners, and Singtel Innov8. Its technology is deployed across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and higher education, with confirmed coverage in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific via direct offices in Plano, Tel Aviv, Sydney, Frankfurt, Tokyo, and Singapore. Silverfort has publicly stated it protects over 1,000 organizations and carries a 4.8 rating on Gartner Peer Insights. The workforce spans at least the US, Israeli, German, Australian, Japanese, and Singaporean offices listed on its contact page. In May 2026 the company launched the "Identity Decoded" podcast, signaling a push into practitioner-focused thought leadership after years of engineering-led growth. No adjacent vehicles, philanthropic structures, or membership clubs are disclosed. The structural differentiator is Silverfort's agentless inline enforcement — it is one of the few platforms that can retrofit MFA onto industrial control systems, AS/400 mainframes, and legacy healthcare applications without modifying the underlying asset. This makes it a bolt-on identity firewall for enterprises that cannot rip and replace operational technology, a posture that distinguishes it from endpoint-focused or cloud-native identity competitors.
General information
Firm type
Asset Manager
Year founded
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AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
Middle East
Country
United States
City
Plano
Corporate office
5525 Granite Parkway, Plano, Texas 75024, United States
Additional offices
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel · Sydney, Australia · Melbourne, Australia · Frankfurt am Main, Germany · Tokyo, Japan · Singapore
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Who runs product and engineering at 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.
How does Silverfort fit into an existing IAM stack?
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.
Which identity types does Silverfort explicitly cover that competitors typically miss?
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.
Is Silverfort sold directly or through channel partners?
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.
What sectors does Silverfort avoid, based on its technology fit?
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.
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