What Spera does

Spera (legal name Spera Security) was an Israel-based identity security platform provider headquartered in Tel Aviv. Founded in 2022, the company built an identity security posture management (ISPM) platform designed to help enterprise identity teams discover, prioritize, and remediate identity-driven breaches. The platform operated in a category adjacent to Okta's core identity and access management business, targeting organizations seeking to reduce identity attack surface and improve security hygiene across their identity infrastructure.

Spera operated with a small team of 11 to 50 employees and raised a single disclosed funding round of $10 million in March 2023, led by YL Ventures with participation from Google, Palo Alto Networks, StoneMill Ventures, Zendesk, and Zscaler. The investor syndicate combined strategic cybersecurity backers (Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler) with broader enterprise software and consumer technology investors (Google, Zendesk). The company did not publicly disclose pricing models, customer counts, or revenue figures prior to its acquisition, consistent with a pre-commercial or pilot-stage operating posture.

In December 2023, Spera was acquired by Okta Inc. to enhance Okta's identity threat detection and security posture management capabilities. Following the acquisition, Spera ceased operating as an independent entity and its technology was integrated into Okta's Identity Security Posture Management product line. Within Okta's portfolio, the technology sits alongside Identity Threat Protection under the Identity Threat Detection & Response category, giving Okta a foothold in the ISPM subsegment as identity-based attacks have proliferated across enterprise environments.

Name

Spera

Legal name

Spera Security

Website

https://spera.security

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Acquired

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Spera was an Israel-based identity security posture management platform that helped enterprise identity teams discover, prioritize, and remediate identity-driven breaches. The company was acquired by Okta Inc. in December 2023 to enhance Okta's identity threat detection capabilities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Identity Security Posture Management

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR) (HDAEAJAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) (HDABAHAE), IT Governance, Risk & Compliance (IT GRC) Platforms (HDAEALAK)

Keywords

• Identity security
• Identity posture management
• Identity threat detection
• Breach remediation
• Identity security platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Tel Aviv

HQ country

Israel

HQ region

Middle East

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Spera provided an identity security posture management (ISPM) platform that enabled identity and security teams to detect, prioritize, and remediate identity-driven breaches across their identity environments. The company operated as an Israel-based identity security platform whose technology was acquired by Okta Inc. in December 2023 and integrated into Okta's Identity Security Posture Management offering.

Product overview

Based on the source data provided, Spera Security was an Israel-based identity security platform provider that was acquired by Okta Inc. in December 2023. The available source material does not contain Spera's own product documentation, website, or product listings. The provided webpage contains Okta's Identity Security Posture Management product information, which may represent the product line that resulted from or integrated Spera's technology following the acquisition, but this is not explicitly stated in the sources. No specific Spera-branded products, modules, or services are described in the provided data.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Identity Security Posture Management Identity Security Posture Management is a platform for security and identity teams to detect, prioritize, and remediate identity-driven breaches across their identity environments. It was developed from Spera's technology and is now offered as part of Okta's identity security fabric for enterprise customers.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Obsidian Security: Obsidian Security focuses on detecting and responding to identity-based threats across SaaS applications. It overlaps directly with Spera's mission of helping identity teams identify and remediate identity-driven breaches.
• Push Security: Push Security is a direct peer in the identity threat detection and posture management space, focused on detecting and remediating identity-driven attacks against SaaS and cloud identities. It targets the same buyer (identity/security teams) and competes in the same ISPM category Spera occupied.
• Silverfort: Silverfort provides identity threat protection and posture management across hybrid environments (AD, Azure AD, on-prem apps). It is a direct competitor in the identity-posture/ITDR category that Spera addressed prior to its Okta acquisition.

Broad incumbents

• CrowdStrike: CrowdStrike Falcon Identity Threat Protection is a broad-incumbent offering in the ITDR category. CrowdStrike sells identity threat detection as part of a wider endpoint and XDR platform, competing for the same identity-security budget Spera targeted.
• Tenable: Tenable is a broad-incumbent security-posture management vendor (vulnerability + cloud + identity posture). Its identity-exposure management offering competes with Spera's posture-management value proposition for the same enterprise security buyer.
• Microsoft (Defender for Identity): Microsoft Defender for Identity provides identity threat detection for Active Directory environments as part of the broader Defender suite. As a bundled incumbent, it exerts significant pricing pressure on standalone identity-posture vendors like Spera.
• Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks offers identity-security capabilities across its Cortex and Prisma platforms and was an investor in Spera. As a broad-incumbent security platform, it competes in the same identity-threat category and shapes buyer expectations.
• CyberArk: CyberArk is a leading identity-security incumbent with strong capabilities in privileged access management and identity threat detection. Its expanding ITDR/identity-security posture offering competes directly with the category Spera operated in.

Emerging players

• Beyond Identity: Beyond Identity offers passwordless authentication and continuous identity risk scoring, addressing identity security from a different angle but in the same buyer category. Its risk-posture capabilities partially overlap with Spera's identity-posture focus.
• Saviynt: Saviynt is an identity-governance and cloud-security platform with growing identity-posture and risk-analytics capabilities. It addresses an overlapping buyer (identity teams) and increasingly competes in identity-risk remediation.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/sperasecurity
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/spera-security

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors6 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about Spera