Identity Orchestration is the key to zero trust

To achieve a zero trust security framework, consistent enforcement of security policies is a must across three critical planes: identity, applications, and networks.

These planes are where users and systems converge with protected assets, making it vital to verify identities and permissions, establish access at the least privilege level, and enforce run-time policies across these planes — whether the assets are on-premises, in the cloud, or distributed across various cloud and hybrid environments.

Identity Orchestration for hybrid and multi-cloud

Hybrid and multi-cloud environments present unique challenges — especially when it comes to reconciling identity, applications, and networks that operate using different technology stacks.

Without consistent enforcement of identity management, authentication, access controls, and policies, establishing zero trust becomes practically impossible.

Identity Orchestration simplifies access control by establishing context for every user and device and applying that context to identity management, applications, and networking decisions.

Organizations can unify multi-cloud and hybrid cloud policy control and enforcement, and policies can be applied consistently across every application and cloud platform.

A standards-based approach to zero trust

Having a standards-based approach is necessary to ensure consistent access policies. The Continuous Access Evaluation Protocol (CAEP) is one standard that forms the foundation for zero trust.

Strata’s implementation of CAEP through the Maverics Identity Orchestration Platform facilitates consistent cross-cloud identity access and policy enforcement at runtime. Maverics does this by decoupling applications from identity, enabling modern authentication for legacy, custom-built, or esoteric applications.

Continuous runtime identity policy enforcement

Identity Orchestration also provides essential security features such as continuous runtime identity policy enforcement that meets zero trust principles without disrupting business operations or user experience. Organizations can quickly comply with zero trust mandates and terminate ALL active sessions across all clouds and platforms if a risk signal flag is received.

Identity must be continually checked throughout the access experience, and Maverics provides a unique, standards-based solution that enables organizations to adapt to the future of modern identity with ease.

Identity Orchestration is the key to zero trust

Ultimately, Strata’s Identity Orchestration solution helps organizations achieve zero trust mandates by ensuring policy enforcement across on-premises and multi-cloud environments, integrating and transforming legacy authentication stores, and providing an air-gap architecture for strictly on-premises architectures.

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