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Re:Ask HN: Why do VCS see market opportunity in dev tools? by zonethundery on Thursday June 29, 2023 @08:48AM (#36519673)
Biden's EO on cyber [0] mandates the agencies move to multifactor auth and zero trust architecture. Requirements on agencies flow through to their contractors, and eventually to the industries they regulate. When most consumer banks don't even do real 2FA (miss me with SMS pls), the TAM is yuuuge.

When the EO came out there were at least five publicly traded identity companies of any size: Okta, CyberArk, Sailpoint, Ping, Forgerock. Thoma Bravo subsequently bought Sailpoint, Ping, and Forgerock at meaningful premiums (~50%). VCs notice things like this.

[0] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...

Re:Ask HN: Why do VCS see market opportunity in dev tools? by re-thc on Thursday June 29, 2023 @10:08AM (#36520538)
There's also the SOC 2 requirement and SSO makes that a lot easier.