Thales Expands OneWelcome Identity Platform Global Footprint with New United States Zone
PARIS LA DÉFENSE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Following the recent acquisition of OneWelcome, a European leader in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM), Thales is bringing the OneWelcome Identity Platform to enterprises globally, enabling them to orchestrate frictionless, secure and trusted digital journeys for their customers. The launch of the latest US Zone gives enterprises expanded regional delivery capabilities and freedom to address sovereignty needs. Additional zones will be added in the near future…
The Cyber Hut Comment: OneWelcome the EMEA based consumer identity and access management player was acquired by Thales back in July 2022. Their main focus is on CIAM, with some interesting capabilities to tackle some of the more emerging use cases around advanced authorization and consent, B2B2X (requiring delegated administration and interesting trust boundary use cases) as well as mobile first delivery.
Thales of course is a big player in a variety of aerospace, electronics, defence and security industries and provides a range of encryption and strong MFA capabilities after acquiring Gemalto in 2019.
This latest announcement sees the OneWelcome brand land in the US with a dedicated approach to delivering access management for external identities to the region.
OneWelcome employees around 80 people according to LinkedIn.