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Strata Introduces Identity Orchestration Platform for Multi-Cloud

BOULDER, Colo. April 29, 2021 – Strata Identity today unveiled the Maverics™ Identity Orchestration Platform, which enables organizations to manage distributed multi-cloud and on-premises identity systems in a unified fashion. The company’s visionary founders co-authored the ubiquitous SAML identity federation standard, developed the first open source single sign-on (SSO) product, and once again created a new product category to address one of the industry’s top challenges — distributed multi-cloud identity.

Last week the company was named one of 10 finalists for the Innovation Sandbox “Most Innovative Startup” Competition at RSA Conference 2021. 

Businesses are increasingly using multiple cloud services, each with its own built-in identity system, which needs to coexist with on-premises applications that are tightly integrated with legacy identity platforms. These identity silos make it impossible to manage identity and access policies consistently. Maverics creates a distributed identity fabric that abstracts and unifies any identity system, including Microsoft Azure AD, Okta, AWS, and Google Cloud Identity; legacy on-premises products from Oracle, CA, RSA ClearTrust, Active Directory, Ping, and others; and identities contained in enterprise applications like Salesforce, Workday, and more.

“We faced the urgent issue of having to modernize the authentication and authorization of our applications. Mainly due to the end of life of our current single sign-on identity solution. Without having Maverics for this migration we could have spent hundreds of thousands of hours redeveloping and reconfiguring policy for our applications,” said Rob Lenhof, Manager of Cloud Information Security at Kroger. “[with Maverics] we were able to modernize our applications so that we can move faster to provide better products to our end-users and our customers while leveraging the power of the cloud.”

The Maverics Identity Orchestration Platform

Maverics enables organizations to:

• Manage identity and access policies consistently across multiple identity platforms supporting distributed, multi-cloud architectures
• Mix-and-match different identity technologies with any application without custom code
• Use Identity Orchestration recipes to build flexible, multi-step, and runtime identity user flows for automating on-boarding, off-boarding, and other identity activities

Maverics solves the following problems:

• Eliminate the cost and complexity of custom integration to connect apps and different identity technologies 
• Migrate applications and user identities from legacy to modern identity systems without rewriting apps
• Avoid ‘Big-Bang’ migrations in favor of incremental projects, since cloud and legacy identity can coexist indefinitely

Maverics addresses these top use cases:

• Multi-cloud identity – orchestrate consistent user identity and access policies for applications deployed on virtually any cloud platform including integrations with Microsoft Azure AD, Okta, AWS Identity, and Google Cloud Identity.
• Identity migration – move applications and identities from legacy identity platforms that are fast approaching end of life (i.e., CA, Oracle, RSA, and IBM) to modern identity systems without changes to apps.
• Secure Hybrid Access – enable access to on-premises applications from cloud-based identity systems while enforcing Zero Trust policies missing in legacy identity platforms.

“The future of computing is unquestionably multi-cloud and to succeed in this new era of distributed architectures, enterprises need an identity management approach that is equally distributed. Strata built Maverics for enterprises adopting multi-cloud that want to avoid rewriting apps, custom integration, long identity projects and to break identity lock-in,” said Eric Olden, CEO of Strata. “Maverics identity orchestration removes the barriers created by fragmented identity silos so organizations can use any identity system with any application, and enforce consistent access policies in a way that is transparent to users.”

Availability of Maverics Identity Orchestration Platform

Strata’s Maverics identity orchestration platform can be deployed in the cloud or on-premises, running either as a proxy or using web/app server modules. It integrates with legacy, cloud-native, and SaaS apps using standards-based protocols or HTTP headers and sessions. Maverics is available immediately from Strata and is priced as a subscription-based on the number of apps secured, and identity providers (IDPs) integrated with Maverics.

Read the press release on Businesswire.

About Strata

Strata is pioneering the concept of identity orchestration for distributed, multi-cloud identity. The Maverics Platform enables enterprises to seamlessly unify on-premises and cloud-based authentication and access systems for consistent identity management in multi-cloud environments. Strata’s distributed approach to identity enables organizations to break decades-old vendor lock-in that has prevented a broader transition of enterprise workloads to the public cloud. The company’s founders co-authored the SAML open standard for identity interoperability, created the first cloud identity services, delivered the first open-source identity products, and are now building the first distributed identity platform. For more information, visit us on the Web and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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