Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, is offering the general availability of Identity Continuity, an addition to its Maverics Identity Orchestration platform that ensures business continuity and uninterrupted application access.
The solution seamlessly fails over from a primary cloud Identity Provider (IDP) to a secondary IDP, using an on-premises IDP or cloud-to-cloud failover capabilities, according to Strata.
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, the company said.
Strata’s Identity Continuity addresses these challenges by monitoring the health and performance of IDPs in the identity fabric. In the event of an outage, Strata can automatically (or manually) and transparently fail 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, according to the company.
“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.”
Key features of Strata’s Identity 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.
Strata’s Identity Continuity is available now from Strata and its business partners worldwide.
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