HPE has announced its acquisition of a cloud native security startup, Scytale. The acquired company has built on the open-source Secure Production Identity Framework for Everyone (SPIFFE) protocol. HPE has not mentioned price of the acquisition.
Scytale looks at application-to-application identity and access management. These are increasingly important as more transactions take place between applications without any human intervention. It’s imperative that the application knows it’s OK to share information with the other application.
Scytale co-founder Sunil James, writing in a blog post about the deal, indicated that this was important to the founders that HPE respect the startup’s open-source roots. “Scytale’s DNA is security, distributed systems, and open-source. Under HPE, Scytale will continue to help steward SPIFFE. Our ever-growing and vocal community will lead us. We’ll toil to maintain this transparent and vendor-neutral project, which will be fundamental in HPE’s plans to deliver a dynamic, open, and secure edge-to-cloud platform,” he wrote.
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