As data breaches spiral out of control globally, with costs reaching a staggering $4.5 trillion, organizations are swallowing a hard truth: as they embrace digitization and collaboration, they face expanding attack surface, complicated access control, and increased data movements — putting critical information at risk. Remote work and mobile platforms have now made traditional access control solutions obsolete, as they fail to enforce security across multiple data silos. Furthermore, with the shift to cloud computing, IoT, and the emergence of sophisticated internal threats, perimeter-based defenses have become limited in their coverage. Enterprises now face a Herculean task: How can they strike the right balance between providing the access needed to smoothly run their business, while keeping data secure and staying compliant?
NextLabs is “[the] place that builds the next big things.” Combining the words “Next” and “Labs;” where “Next” represents the “next big thing” and “Labs” is the short form of “laboratories,” symbolizing many small but highly efficient R&D teams engaging in innovative works.
It is the highly efficient teams working together combining with the innovative spirit that produced the 90+ patent and the world leading dynamic authorization policy engine we have today.
Setting the Standard for Safeguarding Digital Economy
NextLabs®, Inc. provides zero trust data-centric security software & services to protect data anytime and anywhere regardless of where data resides – whether it is across application, database, file or file repository – on-premises or in the cloud. Our patented dynamic authorization technology and industry leading attribute-based zero trust policy platform helps enterprises identify and protect sensitive data, monitor and control access to the data, and prevent violations. NextLabs software prevents unauthorized access and automates enforcement of security controls and compliance policies to enable secure collaboration and information sharing across the extended enterprise. NextLabs has some of the largest global enterprises as customers and has strategic relationships with industry leaders such as SAP, Siemens, Microsoft, AWS, Accenture, Deloitte, Infosys, IBM, and Carahsoft.
Our Commitments
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Build the Best Product
We are builders at heart who care deeply about our work and driven by a desire to create the most useful products.
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Devote to Customer Success
We care about success of our customer - and do what it takes to create value and help them succeed.
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Keep the Digital World Safe
We aspire to set the standard for safeguarding digital economy with pride and mission to protect data everywhere and anywhere.
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Seek the Next Big Thing
We learn and improve with our customers & partners; people is at the heart of our innovation and we will never stop pushing the envelope.
NextLabs Global Locations
Global HQ - United States
3 East 3rd Avenue San Mateo, CA, 94401, USA
European hQ - France
149 Avenue du Maine 75014 Paris, France
Asia-Pacific HQ - Singapore
NextLabs International Private Limited 2 Venture Drive #24-01 Vision Exchange, 608526, Singapore
Our History
In 2004, Keng Lim, a former executive at Netscape and creator of Java Application Server, together with John DeSantis, Chris Guo and the team at Sygate Technologies were inspired by the success of their security software quickly became a market leader in network admission control. Although Sygate became a go-to provider for companies looking for an enterprise class solution to managing network access and enforcing network security policies, Keng was intrigued that many of their large enterprise customers continued to express concern about the difficulty of preventing wrongful disclosure and effectively protecting sensitive data anytime and anywhere in an increasingly complex IT landscape across the extended enterprise.
With the knowledge and experience in network security software, Keng and his team quickly realized that securing access to the network is only a mean to an end, ultimately what everyone needs is to secure the data and applications while making them easy to use and accessible. As organizations expanded their networks and adopted new technologies, the potential for data breaches grew significantly. Keng and his team recognized that the existing authorization model and the traditional security measures were insufficient to address these evolving threats; most existing solutions were either too complex, too expensive, or simply not practical for organizations to implement effectively.
Recognizing this gap in the market, Keng and his team set out to develop an affordable and user-friendly solution that would provide enterprises a platform to unify all data-centric security (DCS) needs under a single centrally managed solution built on the Zero Trust Architecture, ensuring that security was not just a luxury but an attainable standard for all organizations. They aimed to create an intuitive, scalable tools that could protect data at the core anywhere regardless of how it is used, where it is stored and access from. By focusing on both data protection and user accessibility, Keng and his team sought to provide enterprises with a robust solution that can be deployed rapidly to protect sensitive information while still be easily integrated into and working out-of-the-box (OOTB) with existing IT environments, enabling enterprises to safeguard their data and manage risks effectively.
2024
- 4th consecutive year of profitability
- Received SOC 2 Type II Compliance Certification
- German office started operation
- Received the 90th patent
- Launched Safeguard AI solution
- 2024 Released CloudAz 2024 with the highest performance and most scalable Policy Engine
2023
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 and NIST ZTA 800-207A were released in draft form
- Major expansion of the DAE product line - added Oracle ERP, Atlassian, Data Analytics, Database, and Reporting tools
- Total number of applications and OOTB integration supported reached 300
- Reached 200 large scale customer deployments
2022
- Released DAE Advanced Edition with obfuscation at rest
- Released DAE for Oracle, PostgreSQL, Google BigQuery
- Reached 10 billion yearly authorization requests processed by NextLabs
2021
- Federated Authorization technology is born
- Released DAE for SAP suite - includes S/4HANA, HANA, BW/4HANA, and many more
- 20 government agencies, 10 nations, and 8 of 12 world largest aerospace & defense companies run on NextLabs
2020
- Becomes an AWS ACE partner
- NIST's Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) was detailed in NIST Special Publication 800-207 was released
- Released DAE for SAP ERP
- Multi-party Multi-organization Secure Collaboration technology is born
- Reached 5M users protected by NextLabs
2019
- CloudAz 9.0 with Policy Analysis and Testing tool
- Data Access Enforcer (DAE) product line is launched with the release of DAE for Windows, Linux, and MS SQL Server
- Released Zero Trust Data Centric Security suite
- Launched Data Security as a Service
- Total number of applications and OOTB integration supported reached 100
2018
- Signed OEM agreement with Siemens
- France office started operation
- Released SkyDRM SaaS – the first Zero Trust based DRM as a Service in the industry
- Zero trust based Data Access Enforcement Engine, the 1st ABAC policy driven dynamic data obfuscation and segregation technology is born
- Reached 100M data elements protected
- Reached 100 large scale customer deployments
2017
- Expanded Enforcer suite to Cloud Services and SaaS application including Microsoft Dynamics 365, ServiceNow, Salesforce, etc.
- NIST 1800-3 – Practice Guide to ABAC released
- Received the 50th patent – added ABAC policy-driven E-DRM
- Released CloudAz SaaS – the first Cloud Authorization Service in the industry
2016
- Started European office in UK
- Malaysia office started operation
2015
- Released PLM product line – completed support for all major PLM (Siemens Teamcenter, PTC Windchill, 3Ds Enovia, SAP PLM)
- Released OOTB integration with major CAD tools - NX, AutoCAD, SolidWorks, Creo, AutoCAD, and CATIA.
NextLabs released Siemens Teamcenter DRM
2014
- NIST SP 800-162 - Guide to Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) is released
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) was first released
- Signed OEM agreement with SAP
- NextLabs became an AWS software partner
2013
- Achieved profitability
- NextLabs became a member of NIST National Cybersecurity Excellence Partnership (NCEP)
- Received the 10th patent – added dynamic authorization, ACPL policy language, and zero trust security
- Added support for SAP PLM, 3Ds Enovia, Siemens Teamcenter
- OpenAz APIs is created
2012
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) established National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCOE)
- Reached 50 large scale customer deployments
2011
- The 1st Next generation E-DRM based on zero trust architecture – SkyDRM 1.0 is born
- Introduced Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Enforcer product line
2010
- 1st patent on Zero Trust policy enforcement is granted
- Total number of applications and OOTB integration supported reached 30
- CloudAz 5.0 was released with Policy Orchestration service
2009
- Released SAP Data Centric Security product line including Dynamic Authorization Management (DAM) for SAP
- Introduced the Open Enforcer Framework
2008
- CloudAz 3.0 is released with Full Audit and Policy Lifecycle Management facility
- Introduced Oracle Enforcer product line
2007
- Released Enforcer suite for the Microsoft Office System
Launched Asia Development Center HQ in Singapore
2006
- NextLabs formally started operation
- NextLabs CloudAz 1.0 also known as Control Center – the 1st zero trust-based policy platform with dynamic authorization policy engine is released
- Partnership and go to market agreement is established with IBM
2005
- Sygate acquired by Symantec
- Dynamic Authorization Policy Engine is born
2004
- Skunkworks project "Blue Jungle" is launched to develop a software platform to protect data anywhere and everywhere