Radiant Logic and Zscaler have formed a strategic partnership focused on access management for mergers and acquisitions. The arrangement is designed to give acquired employees application access on day one after a deal closes.
The partnership combines Radiant Logic's RadiantOne identity data platform with the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange. The approach is intended to avoid two integration tasks that often follow acquisitions: merging networks and merging identity systems.
Those projects can take months or longer because acquired businesses often come with separate Active Directory forests, human resources systems, application directories and identity stores. Until those systems are aligned, employees brought in through a transaction can struggle to reach the tools they need, while security teams may lack a clear view of access rights across the enlarged group.
Radiant Logic said its software creates a single identity source from the acquired company's directories, HR systems and applications. Zscaler said its platform then uses that identity information to provide access to internet, software-as-a-service and private applications without placing acquired users directly on the corporate network.
The companies are pitching the combined offer at large organisations that buy other businesses and need staff access immediately after completion. They said the model gives security teams a way to apply least-privilege access from the outset and reduce the risk of inheriting hidden identity-related weaknesses during a deal.
Healthcare focus
Healthcare is one of the sectors the companies highlighted, as consolidation has increased pressure on hospitals and care networks to integrate workforces quickly. In that setting, delays in access can affect not only administration and finance functions but also clinical workflows.
Radiant Logic said its platform can unify clinician identities across an acquired organisation's Active Directory, HR and credentialing systems, including cases where one person holds several roles. Zscaler said its technology can then provide identity-based access to applications such as Epic, Oracle Health and Meditech.
The arrangement can also help organisations establish a single authoritative identity source to support minimum-necessary access under HIPAA and align with 405(d) Health Industry Cybersecurity Practises. That matters in healthcare transactions because hospitals and provider groups often run a mix of legacy systems and specialised applications, making identity alignment particularly difficult after an acquisition.
M&A bottleneck
The announcement addresses a persistent problem in corporate dealmaking, where synergies can be delayed by back-office technology integration. Identity and network consolidation often sit behind finance and legal milestones in the public narrative around acquisitions, yet they can determine how quickly staff can begin work inside the combined business.
By framing the partnership around day-one access, Radiant Logic and Zscaler are targeting a point of friction that affects both productivity and cybersecurity. Acquirers need to let new employees into core systems quickly, but they also need to avoid granting broad access before they have a clear picture of user identities, entitlements and inherited risks.
Radiant Logic said its platform is used by one-third of the Fortune 100 and by 60% of U.S. federal cabinet agencies. The company focuses on what it calls identity data fabric and identity security posture management, with an emphasis on bringing fragmented identity records into a unified view.
Zscaler has built its business around zero-trust access, in which users are connected to specific applications rather than the wider network. In an acquisition setting, that approach can appeal to buyers because it avoids putting incoming users on the acquirer's network before overlapping IP ranges, VPN arrangements and internal routing issues have been resolved.
John Skinner, Vice President of Technology Partnerships at Radiant Logic, outlined the rationale for the tie-up in a statement accompanying the announcement.
"Identity is the connective tissue of every merger, and enterprises feel it most painfully on the day the deal closes," said John Skinner, Vice President of Technology Partnerships at Radiant Logic. "Together with Zscaler, we've made that bottleneck go away. RadiantOne unifies identity data across the acquired entity's directories, HR systems and applications, while Zscaler provides secure access to applications. The integration project that used to take a year now finishes on the day the deal closes."