SDG and Silverfort Forge Alliance to Secure Enterprise Identity Blind Spots

NORWALK, CT – June 03, 2026 – In a significant move to address one of cybersecurity’s most persistent challenges, identity-first cybersecurity firm SDG Corporation has announced a strategic partnership with Identity Security pioneer Silverfort. The collaboration aims to eliminate critical security gaps by extending modern identity protection to the vast, often-neglected landscapes of legacy systems, non-human identities, and hybrid cloud environments.

As enterprises have dissolved traditional network perimeters in favor of cloud services and remote work, identity has unequivocally become the new frontline of cyber defense. Yet, this new reality is fraught with peril. Industry data consistently shows that compromised credentials are the leading cause of security breaches, with recent reports indicating that a staggering 84% of organizations experienced an identity-related breach in the last year. The challenge is compounded by complex IT ecosystems that mix modern applications with decades-old legacy infrastructure—systems that were never designed to support modern security controls like Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).

This partnership combines Silverfort’s patented Runtime Access Protection (RAP) technology with SDG’s three decades of expertise in cybersecurity advisory and managed services. The goal is to provide a unified, agentless solution that delivers real-time protection against identity-based threats across every user and system, effectively making the ‘unprotectable’ protectable.

Securing the ‘Unreachable’

The core innovation at the heart of this partnership is Silverfort's unique ability to secure assets that were previously beyond the reach of traditional identity solutions. For years, security teams have faced a difficult choice: either undertake costly and disruptive modernization projects for legacy systems or accept the risk of leaving them vulnerable. This alliance offers a third, more palatable option.

Silverfort’s RAP technology functions without deploying software agents to individual systems or rerouting network traffic through proxies. Instead, it natively integrates with an organization's existing Identity and Access Management (IAM) infrastructure, such as Active Directory and cloud identity providers. This allows it to observe and analyze every authentication and access attempt across the entire environment in real-time.

When a user or machine attempts to access a resource—be it a modern cloud application or a decades-old mainframe—Silverfort intercepts the authentication flow to assess its risk. Based on this analysis, it can enforce adaptive access policies, such as prompting for MFA, blocking the attempt, or granting limited Just-in-Time (JIT) access. This capability is a game-changer for critical infrastructure, command-line tools, and proprietary applications that previously could not support modern identity controls.

Equally important is the partnership's focus on securing non-human identities (NHIs). The explosive growth of service accounts, API keys, and, more recently, AI agents has created a massive and poorly understood attack surface. These machine identities often possess broad permissions and operate without direct human oversight, making them prime targets for attackers seeking to move laterally through a network. The joint solution provides universal visibility into all human and non-human identities, allowing organizations to discover, monitor, and apply consistent security policies without disrupting automated business processes.

Forging a Path to True Zero Trust

For many organizations, achieving a comprehensive Zero Trust security posture has been more of a strategic aspiration than an operational reality. The principle of 'never trust, always verify' is difficult to enforce when significant parts of the IT environment are effectively invisible to security tools. The SDG-Silverfort partnership directly addresses this fundamental obstacle.

By providing end-to-end visibility and control over every identity and authentication request, the solution enables organizations to consistently enforce granular access policies across all environments. This eliminates the dangerous blind spots that have undermined Zero Trust initiatives, creating a unified security fabric that spans from the data center to the cloud.

"Identity is the most targeted attack vector in today's threat landscape, yet many critical systems remain unprotected due to technical limitations," said Joseph Schramm, VP of Global Channel at Silverfort. "Our partnership with SDG enables organizations to close these gaps by delivering end-to-end identity security across their entire environment, without the need for complex integrations or infrastructure changes."

This unified approach is critical as organizations increasingly adopt AI, introducing a new class of powerful, autonomous agents into their ecosystems. The partnership recognizes that these AI agents must be treated as identities themselves, subject to the same rigorous governance and security controls as human users. By monitoring their behavior and enforcing dynamic access policies, the solution aims to prevent misuse and unauthorized actions before they can cause damage.

"Organizations today need identity security that works everywhere," stated Ajay Gupta, CEO of SDG Corporation. "With Silverfort, we're enabling our clients to close critical identity security gaps across cloud, on-prem, legacy, and increasingly AI-driven environments without adding operational complexity. This is a critical step toward achieving zero trust and reducing identity-driven risk."

Beyond the Platform: The Force Multiplier of Expert Services

While Silverfort’s technology provides the innovative engine for this new capability, SDG Corporation brings the crucial expertise to integrate, manage, and optimize it within complex enterprise environments. For many CISOs, the challenge isn't a lack of tools, but a lack of resources and specialized skills to deploy and operate them effectively. This is where SDG's role as a service provider becomes a key differentiator.

Leveraging over 30 years of experience, SDG offers a full suite of services that wrap around the Silverfort platform. Their advisory services help organizations develop a strategic roadmap for identity modernization, ensuring the technology is aligned with business goals and compliance mandates. During implementation, SDG’s experts guide enterprises through the deployment process, which is noted for being up to 17 times faster than traditional identity solutions due to its agentless architecture.

Perhaps most critically, SDG provides ongoing Managed Identity Services through its 24x7 Cyber Defense Center. This service offloads the immense operational burden of continuous monitoring, threat detection, and policy optimization from in-house security teams. By merging Silverfort's powerful automation with expert human oversight—enhanced by SDG's own proprietary AI platform—the managed service ensures that the security posture remains resilient against an ever-evolving threat landscape.

This comprehensive approach of combining a best-in-class platform with expert managed services is designed to make advanced identity security accessible and sustainable for large enterprises, allowing them to focus on their core business while ensuring their most critical assets are protected by a unified, intelligent, and continuously optimized security solution.