Keeper Security, a cybersecurity firm, has revealed that its privileged access management platform KeeperPAM now natively supports Google Cloud. This is a major move towards providing unified security for modern multi, cloud environments. This integration opens up the possibility for enterprises to gain control and secure privileged access for their Google Cloud infrastructures, as well as extend the coverage to major platforms such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.
The press release underlined that an identity, centric approach to security is becoming more and more crucial as the deployment of distributed cloud architectures grow.
This new feature enables companies to consolidate the management of privileged identities, credentials, and access policies for Google Cloud resources and Google Workspace accounts via a single platform.
The update, as per the company, assists security teams in tracking privileged operations, changing credentials automatically, and implementing least, privilege access for both human and machine identities. These capabilities aim to solve a significant cloud security problem today: the rapid increase in privileged accounts and service identities which, if not properly managed, can be exploited by cyber attackers.
As enterprises adopt cloud infrastructure at scale, identity-based threats have become one of the leading causes of data breaches. In complex cloud ecosystems, organizations often struggle with fragmented identity management across infrastructure, applications and automation tools. Service accounts, scripts and machine identities frequently accumulate excessive privileges, creating what security experts describe as “identity sprawl.” When attackers gain access to these privileged credentials, they can move laterally within cloud environments and potentially access sensitive systems and data.
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Keeper’s enhanced platform aims to mitigate these risks through a cloud-native, identity-first approach to privileged access management. The integration works through a dedicated service account and a lightweight gateway that enables agentless, outbound-only connectivity aligned with zero-trust architecture principles. This means organizations can secure privileged access without making inbound firewall changes or deploying
additional agents, reducing operational complexity while maintaining strict access control.
The major features of this integration are access management offering a single view over privileged access to cloud environments and SaaS identities, automatic password rotation of both service accounts and user credentials, and the use of custom minimal, permission roles to prevent excessive permissions.
Least, privilege access policies when combined with the removal of permanent privileges can help organizations shrink the attack surface in cloud deployments drastically.
In a statement released with the press release, Keeper Security’s CEO and Co, founder, Darren Guccione pointed out that cloud security depends a lot on identity management. He explained that since cloud security failures due to a single misconfiguration are rare, the main cause of uncontrolled identity sprawl is by far the biggest source of the problem, as unmanaged accounts and credentials create hidden vulnerabilities throughout the infrastructure.
Implications for the Cloud Security Industry
The decision is part of a general trend in the cybersecurity industry towards identity, centric security models. Enterprises today frequently run their businesses in hybrid and multi, cloud settings. For example, one business might be running Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure simultaneously. Therefore, the conventional security tools that were made for on, premises systems are finding it hard to give a consistent level of visibility and control. Privileged access management (PAM) solutions that are cloud, native are being recognized as a very important security layer that helps secure identities, credentials, and automation workflows across these environments.
Analysts from the industry highlight that multi, cloud adoption has brought new complications to security teams. Since each cloud provider has a completely different identity and access management framework, it becomes quite challenging for organizations to uniformly apply security policies across platforms. KeeperPAM and similar solutions are designed to fill this space by giving you centralized control and a unified overview across different cloud infrastructures.
Additionally, the rise of artificial intelligence and automated DevOps workflows has significantly increased the number of non-human identities—such as service accounts, bots and automated scripts—operating within enterprise cloud environments. These identities often require elevated permissions to perform tasks, making them attractive targets for attackers. Security platforms that can discover, monitor and manage these identities are becoming essential components of modern cloud security strategies.
Impact on Businesses Adopting Multi-Cloud Infrastructure
Integrating could be seen as a means for businesses to not only enhance their security but also to make cloud operations easier. To increase their flexibility, improve resilience and support global workloads, the trend is that organizations are more and more using multiple cloud providers. Nonetheless, the challenge of managing privileged access on different platforms can lead to the use of various disconnected tools and performing processes manually.
The main benefit of centralizing privileged access management to major cloud platforms for a business is the possibility to lower the cost of running operations, at the same time, it can enhance the security perception. Centralized credential management, automated password rotation, and unified monitoring can make security teams capable of identifying suspicious activities more rapidly and be more efficient in their responses to threat incidents.
The announcement also highlights the fact that zero, trust security frameworks are becoming increasingly significant in enterprise IT environments. Unlike zero, trust architectures that grant persistent access privileges, they always require strict authentication and authorization for every request, thus mitigating the possibility of compromised credentials being used to gain access to critical systems.
With cloud adoption further accelerating, it is anticipated that innovations in identity, centric security solutions will become a key factor in the protection of digital infrastructure. The extension of Keeper Security support for Google Cloud within KeeperPAM is a clear indication of how cybersecurity vendors are changing their platforms in order to tackle the challenges of the modern multi, cloud environment. They are essentially equipping businesses with more powerful tools to secure identities, infrastructure and data in an increasingly distributed digital ecosystem.