JumpCloud hosted its first virtual user conference, JumpCloudLand 2025 this week. It announced the acquisition of Stack Identity and laid out the product roadmap for 2025. The company, which provides an open directory platform for securing identities, managing devices, and ensuring secure access to IT resources, said the acquisition will uplevel all of JumpCloud’s existing product offerings and pave the way for future automation capabilities.
The Stack Identity Acquisition
Stack Identity is an identity security and access visibility platform and offers cutting-edge data analytics technology. JumpCloud believes that this addition will help reduce risk in securing workforce access, particularly in the case of hybrid or remote work. It will allow partners to detect unmonitored and unauthorized access pathways that most IAM tools are unable to spot.
“Stack Identity [is] an amazing team of data experts,” said Greg Keller, co-founder and CTO of JumpCloud (pictured right). “We felt better doing this together as one, as opposed to integrating and being partners, and [potentially being on] different railroad tracks. It just made complete sense for us to unify our strategies.”
Sanjay Kale, co-founder of Stack Identity, is on the same page, saying, “Joining JumpCloud is an exciting step as we reshape the future of identity security. Together, we are creating a unified way to protect organizations in today’s complex security landscape. By combining our strengths, we aim to help businesses streamline security and stay ahead of threats.”
As for what the new acquisition will offer to JumpCloud partners, Keller said this: “Stack Identity’s world-class team and advanced data analytics technology will accelerate our ability to productize the billions of data signals our platform generates each month. This will enable new forms of access control, improved identity visibility, and assurance that the right people have the correct access and entitlements every time.”
Identity-First Capabilities and Data Mastery
This acquisition was spurred in part by JumpCloud’s customers’ strong demand for advanced identity-first capabilities. “When you look at the Stack Identity product and platform, it’s all about identity-first visibility and security,” Keller said. “Their whole product is about the discovery and mitigation of unwarranted access; it can look at and profile identities for threats and make adjustments as necessary.” This addition to JumpCloud’s current offerings will help mitigate the risk of unauthorized or excessive identities.
Stack Identity’s capabilities are “now being rolled in and embedded as a master data platform, interconnecting everything within JumpCloud,” said Keller. “Their data mastery will be embedded within the critical areas of our platform—platform identity, device, and access control, all to be influenced through deep data signals.”
This acquisition also sets up JumpCloud for its next big goal—to add automation and AI capabilities to the platform’s user interface. “Data mastery is the underpinning of any form of AI,” Keller said. “[With this acquisition], we now have the quick momentum capability to move out our AI systems and products [that we began in 2024] to you at a much, much quicker pace.”
JumpCloud’s 2025 Roadmap
Rajat Bhargava, co-founder and CEO of JumpCloud (pictured right), centered his keynote address on three main critical areas he’s identified in the industry—and three core focuses for JumpCloud as it moves into 2025.
The first of these is automation. “There’s a lot of different aspects of what we’re working on to help make your lives as IT admins and the lives of your end users easier,” he said.
The next main goal is security: “It could not be more important, at this time in the world. I wish it wasn’t the case, that we had to care so much about security, but it’s true. We have to care intensely and deeply, and we’re taking that to heart,” said Bhargava. “We have other things coming up [besides the Stack Identity acquisition] that are a part of that, [such as] JumpCloud Go. We’re going to continue to innovate on the security angle.”
Finally, Bhargava spoke to JumpCloud’s focus on AI in the coming year. “We’re going to use AI internally quite a bit, so you’re going to see us be more responsive. We’ll be able to handle a higher volume of customers coming in. And, I think you’ll also see us come up with pretty innovative solutions that leverage AI as well.”
“It very much feels as though we are entering the golden age of IT,” said Bhargava. “There’s so much opportunity for us to lean into. It’s an incredibly exciting place to be.”
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