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About DataDike

Built by Security Engineers for Security Teams.

DataDike was founded with a mission: to create the PAM solution that security engineers actually want to use — agentless, comprehensive, and built for today's threats.

Our Story

A Decade of Privileged Security Expertise

DataDike was founded in 2016 by a team of enterprise security experts with decades of experience in financial services, government, and critical infrastructure. They identified a real gap: existing PAM solutions were either too complex for effective deployment, or too simplistic for real enterprise requirements.

DataDike was built from the ground up around three core principles: deployability (operational in days, not months), completeness (all PAM capabilities in a single platform), and auditability (every action traceable, every session recorded, every credential controlled).

500+

Enterprise Customers

40+

Countries

10M+

Protected Accounts

DataDike Team
Mission

Eliminate Privileged Access as an Attack Vector

We exist to make privileged accounts the most controlled, monitored, and audited element of every organization's security architecture. Our mission is to ensure no attacker — internal or external — can use privileged credentials without immediate detection.

Vision

A World Where No Privilege Goes Unaccounted For

We envision an enterprise security landscape where every privileged action is fully traceable, every credential is protected, and every session is auditable — delivering the visibility and control organizations need to operate with confidence.

Our Values

What We Stand For

Security First

Every design decision prioritizes security. We apply the same standards to our own systems that we implement in our customers' environments.

Radical Transparency

Transparent about our capabilities and limitations. We publish our security architecture, audit results, and vulnerability disclosures.

Customer Outcomes

We measure our success by the real security improvements of our customers — not by product metrics or marketing claims.

Engineering Excellence

PAM is hard. We invest heavily in engineering quality — every feature is designed, tested, and validated by people who have worked in the environments we protect.

Timeline

DataDike Milestones

2016

DataDike founded by enterprise security experts with experience in critical environments across financial services, government, and infrastructure sectors.

2017

DataDike 1.0 launched — the first PAM solution with agentless architecture and transparent session proxy for mission-critical environments.

2019

Expanded to 50 enterprise customers across 12 countries. ISO 27001 certification achieved. Recognized as a MITRE CNA (CVE Numbering Authority).

2021

DataDike 3.0 — native multi-cloud support (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, IBM Cloud, Huawei Cloud, Alibaba Cloud) and behavioral analytics with per-session risk scoring.

2023

DataDike 5.0 — adaptive policy engine, advanced A2A integration (up to 1,300 connections), and session recording retention configurable up to 10 years.

2025

Global expansion. 500+ enterprise customers in 40+ countries. Present in key sectors: financial services, healthcare, energy, government, and technology.

Join the DataDike Team

We are expanding our team of security engineers, architects, and go-to-market professionals in the US.