Strata’s Maverics Platform Provides Zero Downtime for Cloud-based Identity
2024年5月20日 - 10:03PM
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Multi-cloud Identity Orchestration platform
ensures continuous access to applications even when a primary
identity provider (IDP) is unavailable
Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today
announced Maverics Identity Continuity, a new add-on product to its
Maverics Identity Orchestration platform that provides always-on
identity continuity in multi-cloud environments. Unlike regional
redundancy offerings from cloud providers and existing backup and
restore products that only shorten the time it takes to rebuild IDP
infrastructures after an outage, Strata’s Identity Continuity
product maintains uninterrupted identity services by autonomously
and transparently failing over to an alternate IDP.
With many organizations now relying on cloud-based identity
services to provide access management for both cloud and
on-premises applications, the loss of primary IDP connectivity
immediately results in suspending all application access. Whether
due to SaaS misconfigurations, natural disasters, malicious
activities that require temporary air-gapping from the internet, or
cloud platform outages, these IDP interruptions effectively grind
business operations to a halt. As a result, IDP outages can impact
an organization’s revenue and productivity and damage its
brand.
According to the 2023 State of Multi-cloud Identity Report, 56%
of those surveyed said that they experienced interruptions to their
cloud IDP twice a year or more, and 62% said they had two or more
annual interruptions due to their cloud IDP itself being
unavailable. Meanwhile, 23% of business decision-makers surveyed by
Parametrix estimated downtime costs their organization $500,000 or
more per hour, while 60% said they are “very concerned” about cloud
downtime.
If the primary IDP itself is unavailable but network
connectivity remains, Maverics will seamlessly switch to a backup
cloud IDP. If network connectivity is down, Maverics ensures that
users remain connected to the applications they need by providing
autonomous failover to an on-premises identity system, like
Microsoft Active Directory (AD) or another local user database.
Maverics will continue to perform health checks to monitor the
status of both network and primary IDP connectivity, and switch
user application access flows back when satisfactory service
conditions are restored.
“For all their advantages, cloud-based services require
uninterrupted connectivity to maintain business continuity. Since
identity providers control access to an organization’s applications
and data, any downtime can shut down mission-critical operations,”
said Eric Olden, CEO of Strata Identity. “Maverics Identity
Continuity eliminates single points of failure and provides
failsafe protection against a primary IDP going offline by offering
several options for maintaining always-on identity. Identity
Continuity is like driving a car with the latest accident avoidance
technology to prevent collisions altogether, while identity
disaster recovery only has airbags and seat belts to minimize the
impact of a crash.”
The Need for Always-On Identity
Traditional identity resilience offerings are limited to
providing disaster recovery using point-in-time IDP policy
configuration backups, but cannot prevent a business’
mission-critical applications from going offline. Regardless of the
nature of the outage, Maverics Identity Continuity ensures that
users can always access their business apps by providing real-time
IDP failover capabilities. Maverics transparently routes app access
flows to backup IDPs without impacting users or interrupting
business activities.
When a primary identity system is offline, Maverics Identity
Continuity performs continuous health monitoring of the primary
IDP. In the event of a failure, Maverics can autonomously failover
(based on predefined policies) to an alternate IDP. When service is
restored, Maverics will transparently move identity services back
to the primary IDP without impacting users or their even knowing
what happened.
Identity Continuity is made possible via Strata’s unique Schema
Abstraction Layer™, which translates proprietary attribute schemas
from different cloud and on-premises IDP systems and vendors. This
enables Maverics to map user, application, and access policy
attributes between otherwise incompatible IDPs so identity services
continue to function normally when failover to a backup IDP
occurs.
Availability
Strata’s Maverics platform with Identity Continuity is currently
in beta, and will be generally available in July. For a
demonstration of Maveric’s Identity Continuity, register for this
upcoming Strata Orchestration Kitchen workshop.
About Strata’s Maverics Platform
The Maverics Identity Orchestration Platform implements an
abstraction layer to bridge siloed and incompatible identity
systems across multi-cloud, on-premises, and hybrid identity
infrastructures, allowing organizations to enforce consistent
access policies from a single point of control. Maverics secures
identities and makes policies, APIs, and sessions work as one — for
all applications, on all clouds, and using any identity provider.
It is a game changer for organizations undergoing digital
transformation, identity modernization, and cloud migration.
About Strata
Strata Identity is the leader in Identity Orchestration for
multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud. The orchestration recipe-powered
Maverics platform enables organizations to integrate and control
incompatible identity systems with an identity fabric that does not
change the user experience or require rewriting apps. Maverics also
provides identity continuity that prevents application outages by
failing over to an alternate cloud or on-premises IDP when the
primary IDP goes offline. By decoupling applications from identity,
Maverics makes it possible to implement modern authentication, like
passwordless, and enforce consistent access policies without
refactoring apps. The company’s founders created the IDQL (Identity
Query Language) standard and Hexa open-source software for
multi-cloud policy orchestration and are co-authors of the SAML
standard for SSO federation. For more information, visit us on the
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