Keeper Security Acquires Glyptodon

Keeper Security has acquired Glyptodon, the creator of Glyptodon Enterprise, a remote access gateway, which provides DevOps and IT teams with access to remote desktop protocol (RDP), secure shell protocol (SSH), virtual network computing (VNC) and Kubernetes endpoints through a web browser.

Glyptodon is also the company that invented and maintains Apache Guacamole, the open source platform used by millions of people for accessing remote desktops.

Darren Guccione is Keeper Security‘s CEO and co-founder.

“This acquisition and integration with Keeper Security will create growth-driven opportunities and expansion for Keeper’s channel partners,” he said. “Most importantly, it will allow them to better serve their end customers with industry-leading and innovative cybersecurity protection. Even as pandemic restrictions recede, distributed remote work and hybrid work environments shall remain as the new normal. Organizations need a secure, reliable and scalable way for their distributed workforces to remotely connect to their desktops and applications. VPNs are a common choice, but they’re expensive, notoriously time-consuming for IT personnel to configure and maintain, and difficult for end users to use. They also don’t scale well, and they suffer latency, reliability and availability problems.”

Together as a unified and ubiquitous cybersecurity platform, Glyptodon Enterprise, Keeper Secrets Manager and Keeper Enterprise Password Manager provide essential enterprise-wide visibility and coverage for privileged access management (PAM), Guccione said.

“This extends well beyond just the IT department,” he said. “It covers every user of the organization on every device they use, and every website, application and system they access. This solution is the culmination of our innovative team, which identifies the most critical gaps in visibility, control and security in the organization, one that is now perimiterless and operates across multicloud and hybrid-cloud environments.”