SPHERE Announces Major Platform Enhancements and Executive Team Expansion

NEWARK, N.J., April 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- SPHERE, the identity hygiene company, today announced a series of major platform enhancements, delivering greater visibility, ownership identification, and risk-based prioritization across enterprise identity environments. The company also named Brent Vanloo as Chief Product & Technology Officer and promoted Rosario Mastrogiacomo to Chief Strategy Officer—strengthening SPHERE's product leadership as demand for identity hygiene accelerates.

New Product Enhancements Drive Identity Hygiene at Scale

SPHERE's latest product capabilities accelerate its vision of embedding identity hygiene as a foundational component of every identity program.

Key enhancements include:

• Expanded Reporting Capabilities: Build and save custom datasets and generate executive-ready reports all in one place.
  
  
• Advanced Ownership Automation: New AI/ML routines that integrate with Enterprise sources like SIEM and CMDB to refine and validate account ownership, improving accuracy and accelerating remediation.
  
  
• Risk-Based Account Classification: Categorizes and prioritizes remediation of accounts based on access level, entitlements, and security posture.
  
  
• Native IGA Integration: Utilize SPHEREboard embedded data catalog with key contextual attributes to enhance existing IGA deployments.
  
  
• Expanded Network Visibility: Extends discovery to network devices by identifying users and access rights through integration with network management tools like Cisco ISE and Aruba ClearPass.
  
  
• Cloud Entitlements: Uncovers user identities and entitlements across AWS, Entra ID and Azure, mapping account privileges and validating security posture within a PAM solution.

These features will debut at CyberArk IMPACT '25 and are currently available in limited release, giving customers early access to explore their capabilities ahead of broader availability.

"This release demonstrates our commitment to solving the identity hygiene challenge at scale," said Rita Gurevich, Founder and CEO of SPHERE. "Our clients need more than visibility—they need actionability, and these enhancements will help security teams prioritize risk and enforce ownership with speed and precision."

Leadership Additions to Fuel Strategic Growth

SPHERE also announced the appointment of Brent Vanloo as Chief Product & Technology Officer. Vanloo brings more than 25 years of experience building and scaling enterprise SaaS platforms, including over 15 years of deep cybersecurity expertise. He has led award-winning product and engineering teams across industries, combining a passion for innovation with a rigorous focus on secure, high-performance systems.

"I'm excited to join SPHERE at such a pivotal time in the identity security landscape," said Vanloo. "The platform's ability to provide continuous identity hygiene is truly unique. I look forward to building on this foundation to drive greater customer value and technical innovation."

Rosario Mastrogiacomo, who previously served as VP of Product Strategy, has been promoted to Chief Strategy Officer, where he will oversee long-term product positioning, market strategy and product evangelism.

The release marks a key milestone in SPHERE's mission to make identity hygiene an operational standard across the enterprise.

About SPHERE

SPHERE is the global leader in Identity Hygiene. We are dedicated to reshaping modern identity programs by embedding this foundational fabric, enabling organizations to quickly reduce risks. We work through an identity lens that protects an organization's accounts, data, and infrastructure. Our solutions deliver immediate time-to-value by leveraging automation to discover, remediate and secure identities, now and forever.

Driven by our core values of passion, empathy, and authenticity, our vision drives us to continually innovate, helping our clients to sleep better knowing their attack surface is drastically reduced, thwarting the plans of bad actors every single day. For more information, please visit https://sphereco.com/ or contact Sonia Awan – PR for SPHERE at [email protected]

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