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How to seamlessly failover from your cloud IDP to a back-up cloud IDP

Don’t let your cloud IDP take you offline. Use Identity Continuity™ to allow users to securely authenticate to critical apps with a back-up IDP when your usual IDP goes offline.

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  • Allow users to log into mission critical apps when your primary cloud IDP is offline
  • Easily configure failover and failback parameters via UI, not code
  • Seamlessly map common attributes from multiple vendors with the Schema Abstraction Layer™
Ingredients
Identity Continuity Multiple IDPs

Don’t get caught with your apps down

Recipe details

This is how everything works together.

Diagram showing Maverics Orchestrator connecting to both a Primary Cloud IDP and a Failover Cloud IDP through a Schema Abstraction Layer for seamless failover from your cloud IDP to Active Directory.

Setup details

Just add in your ingredients and deploy.

Screenshot of a web application displaying an interface for managing identity services with sections for different identity fabrics, including Okta and CyberArk integrations, a Learning Center for resources, and options to failover from your cloud IDP to a backup cloud IDP.

What the user sees

App users don’t care how they authenticate — they care about accessing apps exactly when they need to. Use Identity Continuity™ to give key users access to the mission-critical apps that directly impact business function — with seamless failover between cloud IDPs.

  • Familiar login. Users log in via the usual portal and follow the typical app authentication access flow.
  • Invisible redirection. Behind the scenes, Maverics’ health check functionality evaluates whether your primary IDP is online and — if not — directs the user to your secondary cloud IDP.
  • Quick authentication. The user enters their usual details, gets authenticated and logs in. Everything in the app looks the same as before and access is securely granted.

What the admin does

Key users will need to access a mission-critical app even when your IDP’s cloud platform goes down or their services go offline. Use Identity Continuity to automatically switch authentication requests to a secondary cloud IDP without users ever knowing there was a problem.

  • Define your strategy. Set your primary and secondary IDPs in the Maverics UI and use your resulting identity fabric to define your failover strategy.
  • Define the attributes your application needs in the Schema Abstraction Layer™. Separately map them to claims available from your primary, secondary and even tertiary IDPs.
  • Configure continuity. Set health check parameters for triggering failover, simulate outages, and pre-prepare your systems (and users) for any continuity scenarios. Maverics’ hybrid air-gap architecture ensures local orchestrator availability so that identity services are available even in ‘disconnected mode’ when the cloud is inaccessible.

See it in action

Keep mission critical apps on with Identity Continuity

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