A weekly intelligence brief for CIOs and CISOs. Market movers, a practitioner-sourced vendor spotlight, and synthesized community signal — the stuff analyst reports won't print. Six minutes, once a week.
Vendor briefings tell you what a product does. Analyst reports tell you where it sits on a grid. Neither tells you what happens when you actually deploy it — what the engineers who run it say on Reddit, what former employees flag on Glassdoor, where the renewal surprises hide. The Perimeter synthesizes those signals into one honest read, every week, written for the people who sign the contract and own the risk.
You're accountable when identity is the attack surface — and it now is. Get ahead of the threats, the tooling shifts, and the vendor realities before they land in a board meeting or an incident report.
You're deciding what to buy, renew, or rip out. Walk into every RFP knowing the pitch, the practitioner reality, and the questions that expose the gap between them.
No filler, no 40-item link dumps. Every issue does the same three jobs — so you always know where to look.
The funding rounds, acquisitions, breaches, and regulatory shifts that actually move the identity and security market — each with a plain "why it matters to you" so you can skim or dig.
One vendor per issue, dissected: the pitch versus the practitioner reality, a composite score, and synthesized signal from G2, Gartner, Glassdoor, and the forums where the truth leaks out.
An emerging category worth knowing, plus one sharp line to say in your next exec meeting — so you walk in sounding three moves ahead of the room.
The TfL £39M help-desk breach, NewCore's $66M for agent identity, Okta buys Axiom — plus a spotlight on the category's public-market leader: a deep platform with a real complexity tax.
Cyera circles Oasis, Keyfactor's $1B+ raise, Rubrik buys Strata — plus a practitioner-sourced deep dive on Saviynt: strong platform, real questions on back-end stability at scale.