PRESS RELEASE

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

BOULDER, Colo., July 23, 2024 – 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, either on-premises IDP or cloud-to-cloud failover capabilities.

What Analysts are Saying About the Need for Identity Continuity

“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 Identity Continuity addresses these challenges by monitoring the health and performance of IDPs in the identity fabric and, in the event of an outage, automatically (or manually) and transparently failing 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 Maverics 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 of Identity Continuity

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 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 Web and follow us on LinkedIn and YouTube.

Media Contact:

Marc Gendron
Marc Gendron PR for Strata
+1-617-877-7480
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