About Zilla
Modern Identity Governance (IGA) platform built for today’s hybrid enterprise
Zilla Security was founded by the team that pioneered IGA twenty years ago at Aveksa, before the proliferation of decentralized cloud and SaaS applications broke legacy identity governance models. Today Zilla makes identity governance and security easy for modern organizations of any size.
Zilla’s Modern IGA SaaS platform automates the processes of identity compliance, provisioning, and security. Zilla stands out for its speed to value, offering the most complete set of application integrations capabilities for both commonly used and custom applications. Zilla AI Profiles™ eliminates the tedious, nearly impossible process of creating and maintaining roles or groups to manage permissions. Zilla’s breakthrough automation enables clients to deploy 5X faster, complete access reviews with 80% less effort, and enable faster provisioning with 60% fewer ITSM tickets. Zilla’s platform can be deployed in just days — no developers or consultants needed.
The company is headquartered in Boston, MA, and backed by venture capital investors Tola Capital, First Mark Capital, and Pillar VC.
“Managing identity provisioning, compliance and security shouldn’t be a struggle. It should be integrated, automated, and auditable. Most importantly, it should be easy.”
Deepak Taneja
Co-Founder, CEO & President
Our Leadership Team
The Zilla Security team has more than 30 years of experience in the intersection of identity management and security.
Deepak, a seasoned entrepreneur and security expert, is CEO and Co-Founder of Zilla Security. He has long been at the forefront of innovation in identity management. Deepak founded and led Aveksa, a pioneer and leader in identity governance, and was CTO for Identity at RSA Security after RSA acquired Aveksa. Previously, as CTO at Netegrity, he drove the evolution of SiteMinder into an industry-leading access management platform. Deepak is an avid supporter of Boston entrepreneurs and has served as an advisor and board member to several successful technology startups. He holds degrees in electrical engineering from IIT Kanpur and the University of Florida.
Mark is Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at Zilla Security. He is an accomplished high tech CEO, CMO, VP Strategy, VP Sales and Board Director, with a strong track record, and keen interest, in rolling out disruptive products, delighting customers, developing game-changing partnerships, and driving company growth. Prior to joining Zilla Security, Mark guided growth at numerous cybersecurity startups. As Illusive’s CMO, Mark repositioned Illusive as an Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) provider, which resulted in the company’s acquisition by Proofpoint. He founded Prelert and served as its Chief Executive Officer thru its 2 funding rounds, growth to become the market leading anomaly detection solution for Splunk and Elastic, and eventual acquisition in 2016. Earlier, he served as the Worldwide Vice President of Firewall and Behavioral Analysis Sales at McAfee, where he was instrumental in integrating products into the McAfee solution portfolio, ramping sales and growing the sales organization of a $100M+ business. Prior to McAfee, Mark built and led sales organizations at software startups Securify, Axentis, OnLink and JYACC, consistently growing revenues 30-100% year on year. At OnLink Technologies, Mark grew revenues from 0 to $20M in under 2 years, leading to the acquisition of OnLink by Siebel Systems for $609M.
Ryan Burke is VP of Sales for Zilla Security where he leads all sales, customer success, support, and solution engineering teams and initiatives. He is passionate about building teams that help companies and their trusted partners improve their business and simplify their work by leveraging cloud and software technologies. Prior to Zilla, Ryan held sales leadership roles at Tangoe and Avotus. Most recently he was SVP Sales at Device42 where he helped grow company sales more than 20x within six years. Ryan holds a degree in Biology from Boston College, where he was a varsity athlete on the cross country and track teams.
Garrett is VP of Business and Corporate Development for Zilla Security. He is an ardent believer that strong partner relationships positively impact our clients, our product, and our company. Garrett has spent his career helping companies in the IT space grow from concept to significant scale. Most recently he was SVP of Ecosystem at Device42 where partners were key to achieving a globally available capability with customers in over 65 countries. Garrett lives in Denver, CO, and loves the outdoors, dinner parties, and exploring the world.
Our Investors
At Zilla, our mission is to make identity security and governance easy by focusing on three pillars.
Unmatched simplicity
Deliver an exceptionally intuitive user experience designed for all users in an organization.
Unrivaled integration
Unparalleled automation
Eliminate error-prone manual work and deliver both dramatic time savings and cost reduction.