App Identity Modernization
Overview: Total Economic Impact™ of the Maverics Identity Orchestration Platform

“We weren’t looking for three or four tools that would be best of breed to try to make this all work. We wanted one single tool...

App Identity Modernization
Modernizing application identity at scale

“Many apps simply can’t be rewritten, making the manual approach impractical from a timing and cost standpoint. ” Eric Olden, CEO and Co-founder at Strata Identity...

Product & Engineering
Add no-code Passkey support to non-standard apps with Trusona

Adding passwordless authentication is on the short list of identity priorities in 2023 for many organizations. Yet, it’s not as simple as picking a solution and...

App Identity Modernization
Hidden costs of a legacy IDP

Why it’s time to move on from your outdated identity provider The modern digital landscape is expanding and transforming at breakneck speed. As a result, the...

Identity & Access Management
Highlights from the State of Multi-Cloud Identity Report 2023

Key insights and highlights from the State of Multi-Cloud Identity Report 2023  As digital transformation rapidly reshapes the business landscape, multi-cloud strategies are becoming the norm...

App Identity Modernization
How to secure enterprise access during an M&A

The first step in achieving success is recognizing that a merger or acquisition changes processes, webpages, apps, and logins. Although this may seem obvious, what often...

Governance & Standards
Securing non-standards-based apps with modern authentication

Is it possible to have modern authentication for both standards-based and non-standards-based apps? In today’s rapidly-evolving business environment, enterprise applications are crucial for driving innovation and...

App Identity Modernization
Modernize your apps and get off the identity treadmill

Imagine you’re a software developer in a large organization. You’ve just spent months, maybe even years, rewriting code for hundreds of applications to meet the latest...

Identity Fabric
How Identity Orchestration Enhances Amazon Verified Permissions

Authorization is at the foundation of modern security and one of the keys to zero trust. On Tuesday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) made Amazon Verified Permissions...

App Identity Modernization
App owners: Benefits of externalizing authentication & authorization

With cloud modernization, one of the most significant challenges for app owners is managing identity and authentication, which can divert attention from creating an exceptional product....

App Identity Modernization
What does it mean to be a modern application?

There’s a common thought that if an application speaks industry-leading identity standards, it automatically makes it modern. However, the requirements of apps today go beyond that....

Product & Engineering
The next generation of Maverics

Trailblazing Identity Orchestration for enterprises “Maverics is the only Identity Orchestration platform that allows enterprises to mix and match incompatible identity systems without rewriting each application...

Identity Fabric
Solving the identity puzzle: How interoperability unlocks cloud security potential

With increased cloud migration and the adoption of cloud-based apps, Cloud Security Architects and IT decision-makers are in a race to achieve interoperability between diverse identity...

App Identity Modernization
Eliminate security vulnerabilities with app modernization

Cybersecurity is non-negotiable. So, when it comes to enterprise budgets, it’s the one place we typically don’t see cuts — even in an unpredictable economic environment....

Identity & Access Management
Identity in the cloud is at its breaking point

The hardest part of identity and access management (IAM) technology is making it work with multi-vendor infrastructure and the growing number of applications that enterprises rely...

App Identity Modernization
Identity modernization for customer-facing applications

Want to loan a friend some money? There’s an app for that. Want to exchange some dollars for Euros? There’s an app for that. In fact,...

Identity & Access Management
Why are private equity firms acquiring so many identity management companies?

There’s a landrush in the identity management space, which has important implications for enterprises that rely on these systems to run their business applications.  Private equity...

Company & Culture
Strata secures $26M series B financing

New round of funding to scale Maverics platform and accelerate go-to-market initiatives “We’re announcing our Series B financing of more than $26M to support Strata Identity’s...

App Identity Modernization
Top 10 MFA implementation challenges & how to avoid them

Weak password security is the most common means for bad actors to get their hands on sensitive information and cause a breach. When work-from-home became the...

App Identity Modernization
What is identity modernization & why should you care?

3 drivers of the identity modernization imperative: people, processes, technology Identity modernization is the process of moving from managing identities using an on-premises IDP to a...

Identity & Access Management
CIAM: What is customer identity & access management?

Identity management & customer journey orchestration In a world of increasingly fickle loyalty, you have to keep your customers’ trust. With the majority of breaches being...

Identity & Access Management
How to make the most out of your 2023 IAM budget

The possibility of a recession is causing the C-suite to re-evaluate spending priorities. Like many IT leaders, you may fear that your Identity and Access Management...

Identity & Access Management
Why cloud-based identities play an important role in cloud security

The new security perimeter of an organization is cloud-based identities. Given its significance, Eric Olden, Strata’s co-founder, and CEO, discusses the role of cloud-based identities in...

Governance & Standards
IDQL & Hexa developer workshop [webinar]

Join select developers and architects in the IDQL working group behind the Hexa project for an interactive, hands-on experience to: Learn how Hexa was built using...

Governance & Standards
How to go from zero to a standard: Building IDQL/Hexa

IDQL is the new identity standard and Hexa is the reference software that makes IDQL operational. Hexa is an active CNCF Sandbox project. Strata recently hosted...

Governance & Standards
Introducing IDQL & Hexa: a new identity standard for Policy Orchestration

What’s especially valuable about IDQL/Hexa is it coordinates consistent policy across cloud platforms and the tech stack. This open-sourced, vendor-neutral approach is needed to expedite adoption...

Identity & Access Management
Strata’s State of Multi-Cloud Identity report reveals 2022’s top IAM challenges for enterprises

With a cloud-first approach gaining momentum, a growing number of applications are being hosted across multiple cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.). At the same time,...

Identity & Access Management
IAM terminology: Definitions for identity & access management terms

Whether you’re new to identity and access management (IAM) or a seasoned pro, there’s a lot of technical and complex vocabulary that you have to keep...

Identity Fabric
How low-code application development & identity management work together

In a recent Helpnetsecurity article, Eric Leach, Chief Product Officer of Strata Identity, discusses why low-code applications and identity management need to co-exist. In the article,...

Identity & Access Management
Managing identity in multi-cloud ecosystems: Key findings from analyst study

The rapid pace of cloud migration has created a chasm between enterprises’ ability to modernize IT infrastructures while maintaining data protection. The increased adoption of multiple...

Governance & Standards
Hexa Policy Orchestration framework: Simplifying IAM policy for multi-cloud ecosystems (by Tom Malta)

In this guest post, IAM expert and global consultant Tom Malta shares his views on how Hexa and IDQL – a new and unique policy orchestration...

App Identity Modernization
What is application & identity migration

Why app & identity migrations are necessary and how to make them more manageable Migrating applications and identities to the cloud is a bit like the...

Identity Fabric
Identity fabric: What it is & why it’s needed in multi-cloud environments

Enterprises are rapidly accelerating their adoption of multi-cloud. Although an increasing number of applications are migrated to the cloud every year, the chasm between the ideal...

Identity & Access Management
What a zero trust security architecture means with multi-cloud identity

It’s a dangerous world. Threats are lurking around every corner bad actors are constantly seeking ways to take advantage of weaknesses. It’s not the trailer for...

Identity & Access Management
The difference between authentication & authorization — why it matters

Authorization and authentication are common security terms that sound remarkably similar. It’s easy to confuse the two, and often they’re used interchangeably (though they shouldn’t be)....

App Identity Modernization
What is passwordless authentication (and why does it seem so hard)?

Your company has a cybersecurity problem that it can’t eliminate: your employees. People are the number one security vulnerability in any organization, simply because we’re human...

App Identity Modernization
How to implement MFA for legacy applications

Multifactor authentication (MFA) is part of your daily life. You log into applications that ask for your username and password and then require a second confirmation...

Governance & Standards
What the multi-cloud world needs now is consistent identities & policies [ESG Webinar]

A big part of the modern, multi-cloud world means facing threats that target identity vulnerabilities. The hard reality is that most companies have lost sensitive data...

App Identity Modernization
Is your version of SiteMinder reaching its end of service (EOS)? What are your options? 

Change is the only constant in life. Even software that’s decades old goes through inevitable change. For instance, in a customer service announcement, the SiteMinder team...

App Identity Modernization
Extend Azure AD to migrate, modernize & orchestrate identity with Strata [Infographic]

As systems such as SiteMinder approach their end of service (EOS), enterprises are increasingly tasked with navigating identity and app migrations to the cloud. With multi-cloud...

Identity & Access Management
5 steps to distributed, multi-cloud identity management

It’s not a question of if your organization relies on more than one cloud, but how many? Most enterprises today use three or more public clouds....

Identity Fabric
Connecting identity silos across multiple clouds

Multiple clouds mean multiple identity silos. These silos don’t talk to each other, creating fragmentation across the clouds. When two or more applications need to work...

App Identity Modernization
What is adaptive authentication & how does it enable zero trust?

The number zero is everywhere these days. You’ve got zero-code, zero-day, Coke Zero, and of course — everyone’s favorite — zero trust. What’s the deal? These...

App Identity Modernization
What are the risks of cloud migration?

A recent IT Toolbox article, Top Security Considerations for Transitioning from Private to Public Cloud, emphasized that organizations should re-evaluate how they safeguard their data and...

App Identity Modernization
Identity Orchestration for Azure AD: Strata featured on the 425 Show

Strata’s Maverics Identity Orchestration solution was the featured topic while Microsoft’s Stefan van der Wiele interviewed four of Strata’s subject matter experts on an episode of...

App Identity Modernization
ESG Webinar on Identity & Policy Management for Multi-Cloud in 2022 

MEDIA ADVISORY  Jack Poller will Present New Research on Top Identity Management Challenges Facing Organizations in the Cloud and How to Overcome Them  BOULDER, Colo., Jan....

Identity Fabric
Identity Orchestration: how to manage identity in multi-cloud

More and more organizations are modernizing their legacy identity systems and moving to the cloud. And their migrations aren’t deployed to a single cloud, either. A...

App Identity Modernization
Give your WAM & SSO applications a turbo boost

One day, combustion engines may become illegal on roads and highways. But what if you have a favorite gasoline-powered car that you love to take out...

App Identity Modernization
Castles, moats, & clouds: Modernizing your legacy IDP

The era of multi-cloud is here and here to stay. Strata’s mission is to help enterprises manage the shift from legacy identity systems to the cloud...

Identity & Access Management
Identity & Access Management (IAM) Solutions for Multi-Cloud

Identity and access management (IAM) has been around since the dawn of the computing age. Although the term was once synonymous with the network, IAM and...

App Identity Modernization
5 step identity & app migration from SiteMinder to Azure AD

SiteMinder is nearing its end of service or end of life (EOL). After 2022, it will no longer be supported, and clients will need to migrate...

Company & Culture
Top 2 is a Win at RSA 2021 Innovation Sandbox Contest

The RSA Conference Innovation Sandbox Contest is a big deal. It’s the Academy Awards for Cybersecurity startups. Of course, like everything else in the COVID era,...

App Identity Modernization
Legacy identity infrastructures are nearing end of life, now what?

End of Life (EOL) is inevitable for most products. There comes a time when it simply no longer makes sense to keep investing in something.  It could be that the product is not generating enough revenue (Sony Playstation Vita), or a miscalculation was made in a diversification strategy (remember New Coke?).

Identity & Access Management
Distributed identity enables multi-cloud for healthcare & life sciences

Overview Cloud adoption by healthcare and life sciences organizations accelerated with the events caused by the global pandemic that started in 2019. With remote telehealth and...

Product & Engineering
The Maverics Identity Orchestration Platform Launches

The Maverics Identity Orchestration Platform is officially launched! As Michael Vizard of Security Boulevard and IT Security News states, “[Maverics] a platform for orchestrating the management...

Product & Engineering
CEO’s words: Strata introduces Identity Orchestration platform for multi-cloud

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gilde I’m thrilled to introduce the Maverics Identity...

Identity & Access Management
How orchestration unlocks identity in multi-cloud

Last year set a new high water mark for cloud adoption, especially hybrid cloud environments that combine on-premises and cloud-based apps and identities. According to one...

Identity Fabric
Why SSO is only part of multi-cloud identity

Over the past few decades, single sign-on (SSO) has become the default security solution for most companies. It’s convenient for users, so they actually use it....

Product & Engineering
Show me don’t tell me: how Strata is engineered for skeptics

At Strata, we strive to be a ‘show, don’t tell’ company. Our customers have our unwavering commitment to do what it takes to: prove that our...

Identity Fabric
Rise of the identity domains (identity silos)

How hybrid IT infrastructures will soon push IAM to the brink. What are identity silos? Identity domains, also known as identity silos, are when user identities...

Identity Fabric
The Maverics Identity Orchestration Express Demo

Modernize any app with any IDP in minutes. Join the ‘Orchestration Kitchen’ workshops. Discover sessions With Strata’s Maverics Identity Orchestrator™, you can migrate and modernize your...

Identity & Access Management
Identity Orchestration & multi-cloud: 5 things to know

Gartner, Inc. projects 80% of businesses will have all their infrastructure based in the cloud by 2025. The analyst firm also reports that 81% of enterprises...

Company & Culture
Strata Announces $11M Series A to Lead the Multi-Cloud Identity Orchestration Revolution

To take Strata to the next level, we're announcing that we’ve raised an $11M Series A, led by outstanding new investor Menlo Ventures. They sincerely believe in our disruptive vision for Identity Orchestration. With this round, Strata deeply extends our bench depth and experience. This funding puts us in the position to help more customers succeed in moving to multi-cloud environments. Strata will use this capital to scale our distributed identity technology and develop the Identity Orchestration market.

Identity & Access Management
Antifragile identity for the multi-cloud world

This article was originally posted on The New Stack. In his book The Black Swan, Nassim Taleb describes game-changing events that occur randomly and infrequently while...

Identity & Access Management
Multi-cloud identity management for financial services

How financial services can succeed in hybrid and multi-cloud environments “[The financial industry is] facing rapid and significant changes…Industry changes include Open Banking, neo-challenger banks and...

Identity & Access Management
Addressing hybrid identity fragmentation across on-prem and Azure AD

How Strata and Microsoft work together to solve the user provisioning and sync problems across hybrid identity environments Introduction Chances are pretty good that you’re right...