Strata Identity Announces General Availability of Identity Continuity™ for Zero Application Downtime During IDP Outages
23 Julio 2024 - 8:03AM
Business Wire
Now available as part of the Maverics Identity
Orchestration platform, Strata’s Identity Continuity eliminates
business risk with seamless failover from cloud to on-premises
IDPs
Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today
announced the general availability of Identity Continuity™, a
groundbreaking addition to its Maverics Identity Orchestration
platform. This new premium offering ensures business continuity and
uninterrupted application access by seamlessly failing over from a
primary cloud Identity Provider (IDP) to a secondary IDP, using an
on-premises IDP or cloud-to-cloud failover capabilities.
“In many sectors, especially financial services, system outages
to critical applications have become extremely damaging to the
business. Uptime for business-critical applications is often tied
to uptime of the underlying identity providers (IDPs) supporting
these applications. Firms invest significantly in business
continuity to manage these kinds of risks, but this traditional
model assumes outages, rapid (hopefully) resumption of services,
and falls short of what many businesses need,” said John Horn,
Director of Cybersecurity Practice, Datos Insights. “Increasingly,
businesses demand higher levels of application uptime,
necessitating IDP services which deliver continuous availability,
uninterrupted even when faced with primary IDP outages in the cloud
or on-premises.”
Identity-based Business Continuity and Resilience
With the increasing reliance on cloud-based identity services,
organizations face significant business risks when their primary
IDP experiences downtime. These interruptions, whether due to SaaS
misconfigurations, natural disasters, malicious attacks, or
platform outages, can halt business operations, leading to revenue
loss, productivity decline, and reputational damage.
Strata’s Identity Continuity addresses these challenges by
monitoring the health and performance of IDPs in the identity
fabric. In the event of an outage, Strata can automatically (or
manually) and transparently fail over from a primary cloud IDP to
an on-premises IDP, such as Microsoft Active Directory (AD), when
network connectivity is available. In cases where network
connectivity is disrupted, Maverics provides seamless failover to a
backup cloud IDP. Continuous health checks monitor the status of
both network and primary IDP connectivity, ensuring a smooth switch
back when services are restored.
“Unlike traditional approaches to identity resilience that focus
on backing up cloud IDP configuration settings for eventually
getting back online faster, Strata’s Identity Continuity makes it
possible for organizations never to go offline at all,” said Eric
Olden, CEO of Strata Identity. “With this new offering, we are
redefining identity continuity to equal zero downtime by providing
seamless failover between IDPs so there is no interruption to
application access.”
Always-On Identity Services Reduce Business Risk
Traditional identity resilience solutions focus on disaster
recovery through IDP policy configuration backups. However, they do
not prevent mission-critical applications from going offline.
Strata’s Identity Continuity ensures users maintain access by
providing real-time IDP failover capabilities. The system
transparently routes access to backup IDPs without user
interruption, maintaining business operations.
Key features of Strata’s Identity Continuity include:
- Health Monitoring and Failover: Continuous monitoring of
IDP availability and automated or manual failover and failback
based on predefined policies.
- Schema Abstraction Layer™: Translating and mapping user
attributes between different IDP schemas, ensuring seamless
functionality across different IDP products during failover.
- Continuity Strategies: Customizable failover and
failback workflows managed through an intuitive no-code UI.
- Downtime Simulation: Enabling users to simulate IDP
unavailability to test continuity strategies accurately.
Availability Strata’s Identity Continuity is available
now from Strata and its business partners worldwide. To learn more
and schedule a demonstration visit this page.
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 Identity 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 on-premises or cloud 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
Web and follow us on LinkedIn and YouTube.
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