Symmetry Systems vs Veza

About Veza

Veza provides a unified Access Platform that brings together identities across systems for access search, actionable intelligence, automated access reviews and identity lifecycle management. Veza unifies identities and entitlements across people, machines, and third parties, from apps to data, on-prem to SaaS. Veza maps an identity ecosystem across users, groups, roles, policies, permissions and resources to uncover dormant accounts, excessive privileges, access drift, and non-human and third-party access. Veza secures identities across on-prem, non-human identities (NHI), cloud-native, SaaS, and custom apps. Veza offers a unified access authorization platform that covers access governance, privilege access and access management across an entire environment.^[1][7]

Veza describes SaaS adoption as bringing security challenges, including a greatly expanded attack surface and the scale of governing access to so many SaaS apps. Veza says that migration to the cloud made access management harder, with many more identities and resources to manage. Veza describes itself as an authorization platform for identity-first security that is used to understand, manage and control who can and should take what action on what data. Veza says its authorization platform helps organizations understand, manage and control identity-to-data relationships for access governance, privileged access, cloud entitlement management and more.^{[7][8][10][11]}

Veza states that enterprises can enforce least privilege principles and enable Zero Trust with its platform. Veza provides a way to visualize and control data access across all systems, mitigating risks for both human and machine identities. Veza provides a way to understand and control access to unstructured data in data lakes, ML datasets, shared drives and cloud storage. Veza supports access reviews based on the effective permissions of identities, to enforce least privilege and compliance. Veza enables enterprise-wide access governance across all users, apps and systems, covering access reviews, lifecycle management, access requests and separation of duties.^[7][12]

Veza helps show who can do what across Amazon, Google, Azure and Oracle cloud environments. Veza surfaces varying access levels to subscriptions, resources and Azure data assets. Veza covers the permissions of all identities, including service accounts and other machine identities. Veza tracks permissions across SaaS applications, identities and accounts in real time. Veza covers least privilege and governance for AI models, APIs and compute resources across AWS Bedrock, OpenAI and Microsoft Co-Pilot. Access AI provides visibility into enterprise-wide access.^[7][8][9]

Veza detects overprivileged access, dormant accounts and toxic permission combinations. Veza provides audit-ready access reports and demonstrable controls for compliance with industry regulations and internal cyber controls. Veza helps data teams protect sensitive information and enforce least privilege across structured and unstructured data. Veza offers secure access to Snowflake environments, SharePoint repositories and traditional databases. Veza lets platform owners of apps, data and infra understand and manage which users have access to their systems. Veza states that its customers include organizations of all sizes.^[7]

Veza has earned SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications after recurring third-party audits. Veza states that it is compliant with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Veza engages independent third-party security experts to conduct regular audits and penetration tests of its systems.^{[7][8][9][13][14]}