Polaris Office and Polaris AI Handy Make a Joint Push into the Corporate Security Market

[Financial News] Polaris Office is joining forces with its affiliate Polaris AI Handy to make a push into the corporate security market. The two companies plan to jointly launch a “Free Corporate AD Security Assessment Campaign” and expand their security business by leveraging their existing customer bases among public institutions and businesses.
Polaris Office said on the 9th that the campaign was organized to assess potential security risks in companies’ internal authentication infrastructure and recommend ways to address them. The plan is to combine Polaris Office’s capabilities in supplying security solutions and providing technical support with Polaris AI Handy’s experience in implementing groupware and electronic approval systems to propose security services tailored to each company’s operating environment.
As businesses increasingly adopt digital transformation and artificial intelligence (AI), the importance of managing internal accounts and access permissions is also growing. A security incident in authentication infrastructure connecting numerous employees and business systems could spread its impact across an entire company, making it important to identify and manage risks in advance.
The campaign is for companies that use Microsoft Active Directory (AD). The two companies will use PingCastle, a security assessment solution from Netwrix, a global data and identity security company, to analyze risks involving accounts, access permissions, and security settings. They will provide participating companies with assessment results and improvement priorities, helping them decide what to address first with limited personnel and budgets. The specific scope and method of each assessment will be determined in consultation with the company, taking its operating environment and security policies into account.
A security industry official said, “AD is used to manage authentication and permissions across multiple business systems, so excessive permissions or outdated settings left in place can increase the scope of an incident’s impact. To turn assessment results into actual improvements, it is important to set response priorities by considering both the impact on business operations and the difficulty of taking corrective action.”
Polaris Office will supply security solutions and provide technical support through its partnership with Netwrix. Polaris AI Handy will identify new security needs by drawing on its customer network and its experience implementing and operating groupware and electronic approval systems, built primarily through work with public institutions. Through this effort, the companies plan to maintain their competitiveness in the public-sector (B2G) market while expanding their security business to private companies (B2B), and to offer existing groupware customers account and permission management and data protection services as well.
The companies also plan to pursue cloud-based security business. They intend to address security needs in on-premises environments and hybrid environments that use cloud and internal systems together by drawing on the implementation and operational capabilities of affiliate Polaris Cloud, a Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP), for Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365.
Polaris Office plans to use the free assessment as an opportunity to propose Netwrix solutions—including account and permission management, data loss prevention, and threat detection—to companies that need additional security management. It aims to expand its business from assessments and solution supply to security environment implementation and ongoing management and operations, building a corporate security services business that generates recurring revenue.
A Polaris Office representative said, “This campaign is intended to help companies go beyond identifying security risks and make actual improvements. By combining Polaris AI Handy’s customer base among public institutions and businesses with Polaris Cloud’s cloud business capabilities, we will strengthen the group’s competitiveness in the security business and secure new business opportunities in the B2B and B2G markets.”
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