Articles from Strata Identity

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced that Gerry Gebel, VP of Product and Standards, will speak on a panel at Identiverse 2025 focused on AuthZEN, a new working group of the OpenID Foundation aimed at standardizing authorization. The panel will explore the evolving state of modern authorization and preview progress on a new open standard modeled after OpenID Connect.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced that CEO Eric Olden will deliver a session titled "IAM Resilience in the Real World" at CyberArk Impact 2025. The session will explore strategies to maintain continuous operations and avoid costly disruptions due to identity infrastructure outages.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced it will host a webinar with The Cyber Hut, focusing on the growing challenges organizations face when managing multiple concurrent identity providers (IDPs). The session will explore strategies to simplify authentication and improve security by rationalizing IDPs without changing core app source code or costly rip-and-replace projects.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced it was mentioned in the Gartner report, How to Reduce Outage Risks for SaaS-Based IAM Tools1.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced Carahsoft will host a free webinar on November 12th that explores strategies to ensure Identity, Credentialing, and Access Management (ICAM) survivability for Department of Defense operations in Disconnected, Degraded, Intermittent, and Low-Bandwidth (DDIL) network environments. Attendees will earn one Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credit for participating.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced it will host a CSA CloudBytes webinar on November 7, titled “Achieve Zero Trust Identity with the New 7 A’s of IAM.” The session will introduce a framework for managing identity and access management (IAM) across seven critical functions that are essential for protecting organizational identity data and ensuring compliance. The session will also provide a five-step plan for achieving identity continuity to ensure always-on availability for mission-critical apps.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced it will host a free webinar on October 3rd with CyberArk on how to eliminate the costly, time consuming process associated with replacing outdated legacy identity and access management (IAM) solutions with modern, cloud identity platforms. The session will explore the challenges of modernizing outdated identity systems and offer insights and best practices for leveraging orchestration technology to migrate to CyberArk Identity without the need to rewrite application code.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, has been mentioned in the 2024 Gartner Migrate to Passwordless Authentication to Enhance Security and Optimize UX. Strata’s Maverics enables organizations to bridge the power of their preferred passwordless service with legacy applications without making costly and time consuming code modifications.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced the availability of “Identity Orchestration For Dummies,” written by Eric Olden, CEO of Strata Identity who is one of the most influential minds in identity management, and co-author Heidi King, Content Strategy lead at Strata Identity.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced it has been named as a Sample Vendor in the 2024 Gartner Hype Cycle for Banking Customer Experience.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced it will host a free webinar on how to tear down outdated IAM architectures and replace legacy identity and access management (IAM) services with modern, cloud identity providers (IDPs). The session will bring together recognized IAM experts to discuss the challenges associated with modernizing aging identity systems and provide insights and best practices for using orchestration technology to migrate to cloud IDPs without rewriting application code.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, announced today that Gerry Gebel, its VP Products and Standards, has been invited to speak on an expert panel at the upcoming Datos Insights Financial Crime and Cybersecurity Forum.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced that it will demonstrate, at TechNet Augusta 2024, Identity Continuity support for DDIL (Disconnected, Degraded, Intermittent, and Low-Bandwidth) network environments that are both common and required in Department of Defense (DOD) applications.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced that as a member of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA) it will demonstrate how organizations can seamlessly migrate off legacy identity systems to Microsoft Entra ID without rewriting their applications during Black Hat 2024 in Las Vegas at Microsoft booth #1240. In addition, Strata will showcase how its Maverics Identity Orchestration platform supports identity provider (IDP) switching capabilities between Microsoft Entra ID and Active Directory (AD) for continuous business operations and application access in DDIL (Degraded, Disconnected, Intermittent, and Low-Bandwidth) network environments.

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, using an on-premises IDP or cloud-to-cloud failover capabilities.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced that Aldo Pietropaolo has joined the company as Field CTO. Aldo has over 20 years of experience in the identity industry as an executive, advisor, and solutions engineering leader. He joins Strata from SGNL, where he was director of solutions engineering.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced it has earned the ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification by the International Organization of Standardization. One of the industry’s most recognized information security certifications, ISO/IEC 27001 demonstrates Strata meets the highest standards for protecting its Maverics Identity Orchestration Platform.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced its Maverics Identity Orchestration Platform received the prestigious 2024 Fortress Cybersecurity Award in the Authentication and Identity category. Strata’s Maverics implements an abstraction layer that bridges siloed and incompatible identity systems across multi-cloud, on-premises, and hybrid identity infrastructures, allowing organizations to enforce consistent authentication and access policies from a single control point.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced it will host an Orchestration Kitchen webinar with CyberArk on May 23 on how to replace outdated identity providers like Siteminder, Oracle Access Manager (OAM) and IBM Tivoli with CyberArk Identity without rewriting applications.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced Maverics Identity Continuity, a new add-on product to its Maverics Identity Orchestration platform that provides always-on identity continuity in multi-cloud environments. Unlike regional redundancy offerings from cloud providers and existing backup and restore products that only shorten the time it takes to rebuild IDP infrastructures after an outage, Strata’s Identity Continuity product maintains uninterrupted identity services by autonomously and transparently failing over to an alternate IDP.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced its Maverics Identity Orchestration Platform was named Best Identity and Access Management (IAM) / Single Sign-On (SSO) Solution in the 2024 Cloud Security Awards. The annual competition recognizes the most innovative cloud security products from across the globe.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced Granville Schmidt has been appointed its Chief Architect. He will be responsible for steering the technical and strategic direction of Strata’s products and managing the company’s engineering teams to deliver scalable, secure, and innovative software solutions.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced that its Head of Standards, Gerry Gebel, will also serve as the company’s Vice President of Product. For over 20 years, Gerry has provided requirements definitions, architecture development and strategic planning for identity management projects with Fortune 500 corporations.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced a new Microsoft Identity Cookbook, which includes several Orchestration Recipes that manage the complex identity relationships and processes for moving Windows applications from Microsoft Active Directory (AD) to cloud-based Microsoft Entra ID and extending Microsoft Entra ID to on-premises legacy Windows apps that do not support modern cloud identity protocols.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced it has been named a Representative Vendor by Gartner in the 2024 Reduce IAM Technical Debt1 report by Nat Krishnan and Erik Wahlstrom. As stated in the research: “Technical debt weakens the agility of an IAM team and the effectiveness of organizational security controls. Security and risk management technical professionals must tackle siloed tools, legacy integrations, incomplete discovery, poor IAM hygiene and difficult onboarding processes to resolve it (IAM Technical Debt).”

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced Global Access Orchestration Recipes that manage the complex identity relationships and processes associated with meeting data sovereignty and privacy compliance requirements for organizations with global operations. Together with Strata’s Maverics Identity Orchestration platform, these identity orchestration recipes ensure that data accessed across multiple identity providers (IDPs) and cloud platforms remains sovereign, resident, and local to comply with regional regulations.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced that Erik Ruby has joined the company as Head of Sales. The former Sumo Logic and SnapLogic executive brings a wealth of cloud security, SaaS, and infrastructure domain expertise to Strata’s management team and will lead market expansion for the Maverics Identity Orchestration platform.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, announced today that Gerry Gebel, its Head of Standards, has been invited to present on an expert panel at the upcoming TechVision Chrysalis Conference.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced it has been named a Representative Vendor by Gartner in the 2023 Innovation Insight: Journey-Time Orchestration Mitigates Fraud Risk and Delivers Better UX1 by analyst Akif Khan. As stated in the research: “Orchestration solutions improve the efficacy and efficiency of risk management along digital user journeys.”

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced that the Maverics Identity Orchestration Platform™ received a System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 Type II certification which validates that Strata maintains effective system level controls to ensure the highest level of security. The company received SOC 2 Type I certification last March.

Strata Identity today announced its participation in the Microsoft Security Copilot Partner Private Preview. Strata Identity was selected based on their proven experience with Microsoft Security technologies, willingness to explore and provide feedback on cutting edge functionality, and close relationship with Microsoft.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced a new panel session webinar series called Identity Heroes that will feature industry experts discussing identity management trends, challenges and lessons learned. The first Identity Heroes event, Unlocking the Future of Identity, will explore emerging developments in decentralized identity, standards and passkeys.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced the findings of a commissioned 2023 Total Economic Impact™ study of its Strata’s Maverics Identity Orchestration Platform conducted by Forrester Consulting. According to the study, for a composite organization representative of interviewed customers, Maverics delivered a return on investment (ROI) of 407% and $13.85M in benefits, over three years for identity modernization projects by reducing development cycles ($10M), retiring legacy identity infrastructure ($2.1M), and reducing security and IT operations costs ($1.7M).

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced it will host an Orchestration Kitchen webinar on Sep. 28 on how to migrate customer identity and access management (CIAM) from the open source on-premises Keycloak platform to cloud-based and developer friendly Amazon Cognito.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, and Trusona, the pioneering leader in passwordless identity authentication, today announced they will co-present an Orchestration Kitchen webinar on Sep. 14 on how to add passkeys, a new passwordless multi-factor authentication (MFA) technology, to legacy applications that do not support modern identity protocols including OIDC and SAML.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced the findings of its third annual State of Multi-Cloud Identity Report, conducted by Osterman Research. The study surveyed 308 IT leaders and decision makers at North American organizations with annual revenues of US$100 million or more on their challenges and priorities for identity management in multi-cloud environments.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced a new educational resource for identity and security professionals on how to address identity modernization use cases. Named ‘Orchestration Kitchen,’ this bi-weekly series will provide technical deep dives on complex identity management challenges. Topics include application modernization, legacy identity migration, multi-cloud identity, and others.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced the latest version of the Maverics platform that enables customers to unify Identity Orchestration functions between legacy on-premises, modern cloud, and multi-vendor environments without rewriting their applications. With Maverics, businesses easily create a vendor-agnostic identity fabric through a visual management interface that supports any identity provider (IDP), including legacy on-premises systems and cloud systems from AWS, Azure, Okta and GCP.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced it has been recognized as a finalist for the Trust Award in the Best Identity Management Solution category for the 2023 SC Awards. Now in its 26th year, the SC Awards are cybersecurity’s most prestigious and competitive program. Finalists are recognized for outstanding solutions, organizations, and people driving innovation and success in information security.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced it has been named to Inc. magazine’s annual Best Workplaces list. Featured in the May/June 2023 issue, which hits newsstands on May 16, 2023, and prominently featured on Inc.com, the list is the result of a comprehensive measurement of American companies that have excelled in creating exceptional workplaces and company culture, whether operating in a physical or a virtual facility.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced the availability of the Maverics Identity Orchestration platform in AWS Marketplace. This listing makes it easy for customers to test and deploy Maverics, as well as directly procure it within AWS Marketplace.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced that Gerry Gebel, Head of Standards, will present a session on Standardizing Access Policies with IDQL/Hexa for multi-cloud environments on May 10 at the European Identity and Cloud Conference 2023 hosted by analyst firm KuppingerCole.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced it has been named Most Comprehensive Identity Orchestration Solution of the Year in the 2023 Global InfoSec Awards. The winners were announced today at the RSA Conference 2023 in San Francisco.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced Gerry Gebel, its Head of Standards, has been selected to present a session at the 2023 RSA Conference on how to operationalize access policies for multi-clouds.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced the availability of its application modernization Orchestration Recipes that enable organizations to migrate from any legacy identity system to any cloud identity provider (IDP) without rewriting any code using the Maverics multi-cloud Identity Orchestration platform. The recipes support moving off outdated IDPs to more secure and flexible cloud identity systems like Okta, Microsoft Azure AD, AWS Cognito, and more.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration for multi-cloud company, announced today that Topher Marie, its Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, has been invited to present at APIsecure 2023. His session, “For flex(ibility) sake, modernize your legacy APIs!” will explain why and how organizations should update their aging API infrastructures, as well as pitfalls to avoid along the way.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced it has received a System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 Type I certification. The report validates that Strata’s Maverics Identity Orchestration platform has implemented and maintains effective system-level controls to protect its customers’ and partners’ sensitive data and ensure the integrity of its systems.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration for multi-cloud company, announced today that Eric Olden, its Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, has been invited to present at The Montgomery Summit 2023, where he will discuss how the company’s Maverics platform is disrupting the identity market with an orchestration fabric that makes incompatible identity systems work as one.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced Orchestration Recipes for deploying passwordless authentication to any application without rewriting their code using the Maverics multi-cloud Identity Orchestration platform. The recipes support leading passwordless, FIDO2-compliant vendors, including HYPR, Yubico, and others.

Strata, the distributed multi-cloud identity orchestration company, today announced it has closed a $26M Series B round of financing led by Telstra Ventures with participation from existing investors Menlo Ventures, Forgepoint Capital and Innovating Capital. The company has developed, Maverics™, the first distributed identity orchestration platform that enables organizations to adopt modern cloud identity systems without the need to rewrite applications, saving millions and years of manual migration.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced it has joined the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an international community where members, staff, and the public work together to develop technology solutions and shape the future of the web. As a member, Strata joins the ranks of some of the most innovative cloud and security partners in the world, including AWS, Google, and Microsoft.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration Company, and HYPR, the Passwordless Company™, today announced a partnership that enables phishing-resistant MFA to be added to any modern, legacy, or custom application without rewriting the source code. This unique capability is made possible via an abstraction layer that decouples identity and authentication from the identity system and applications to deliver the strongest levels of authentication security.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced it has joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world's leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced its first no-code Orchestration Recipes for deploying end-to-end, automated customer use cases on the Maverics multi-cloud identity orchestration platform.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, announced today that Gerry Gebel, its Head of Standards, has been invited to present on an expert panel at the upcoming TechVision Chrysalis Conference.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, announced today that its Maverics multi-cloud identity orchestration platform provides native integrations for all premium Microsoft Entra identity and access management solutions. Maverics enables organizations, without making any code changes, to modernize their applications with Microsoft Azure Active Directory and extend identities and policies in Azure AD to other cloud platforms.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced it has appointed Chris Veith, Senior Director of Global Alliances. Chris joins Strata from Okta and will lead the company’s global systems integrator (GSI) partner program. He will manage Strata’s relationships with GSIs, including EY, Deloitte, and Wipro, who serve as trusted partners for Digital Transformation programs in the Global 2000 market.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, announced today that Gerry Gebel, its Head of Standards, has been invited to present a session at IAMCon 2022 on a new standard for multi-cloud identity management.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration for multi-cloud company, announced today that Eric Olden, its Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, has been invited to present at the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) SECtember 2022 conference, where he will explain a new, standards-based approach for multi-cloud identity management.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration for multi-cloud company, today announced the Hexa and IDQL (Identity Query Language) open source project that enables organizations to apply consistent access policy across any application on multiple cloud platforms has been accepted as a sandbox project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF): https://www.cncf.io/projects/hexa/

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration for multi-cloud company, today announced it has been recognized as a "Representative Provider'' in the 2022 Gartner Innovation Insight: Journey-Time Orchestration Mitigates Fraud Risk and Delivers Better UX report. [1] The company will demonstrate how the Maverics Identity Orchestration platform solves the top 10 most challenging IAM problems at booth 637 during the Gartner Identity and Access Management Summit 2022, at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, NV from August 22 to 24.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration for multi-cloud company, today announced Granville Schmidt has joined the company as Principal Architect and member of the Office of the CTO. He will be responsible for innovating on and scaling Strata Identity’s cloud-native identity orchestration platform, reporting to Topher Marie, Chief Technology Officer and co-founder.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration for multi-cloud company, today announced it is a finalist in the Security Software Innovator of the Year category of the 2022 Microsoft Security Excellence Awards. Microsoft will celebrate finalists in 10 award categories on June 5, honoring partner trailblazers, solution innovators, customer and technology champions, and changemakers.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration for multi-cloud company, today announced the availability of an open source project that enables organizations to use cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, and Google and apply consistent access policy across any applications on whatever cloud. IDQL is a new common policy format used to define identity access policies in a declarative way.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration for multi-cloud company, today announced it has been named Identity Startup of the Year in the prestigious 2022 European Identity and Cloud Awards by global analyst firm KuppingerCole.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration for multi-cloud company, today announced the findings of its second annual State of Multi-Cloud Identity Report which was conducted by Osterman Research.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration for multi-cloud company, today announced it has been named to Inc. magazine’s annual Best Workplaces list for prizing employee wellbeing and shaping workplace values. Featured in the May/June 2022 issue, hitting newsstands on May 17, 2022, and prominently featured on Inc.com, the list is the result of a comprehensive measurement of American companies that have excelled in creating exceptional workplaces and company culture, whether operating in a physical or virtual facility.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration for multi-cloud company, today announced findings from a survey conducted by Forrester Consulting entitled Distributed Multicloud Ecosystems Require A New Approach To Identity And Access Management.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration for multi-cloud company, announced today it will host a webinar featuring Jack Poller, Analyst for Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) on identity and policy management challenges in a multi-cloud world.

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration for multi-cloud company, today announced it has been recognized as Best Start-up of the Year in 2021 Cyber Security Awards competition, and Best Cloud Identity Orchestration Solution in 2021 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program.

Strata Identity, the distributed, multi-cloud identity orchestration company, today announced Gerry Gebel, its Head of Standards has been invited to present on two panels that will explore developments in identity orchestration and modernization at the TechVision Research Chrysalis Conference on November 3rd and 4th.

Strata Identity, the distributed, multi-cloud identity orchestration company, today announced it has appointed Drew Prante as its Chief Revenue Officer. Drew joins Strata from OneLogin and will scale the company’s sales organization to meet accelerating market demand for the Maverics™ distributed identity orchestration platform for multi-cloud and hybrid on-premises environments.

Strata Identity, the distributed, multi-cloud identity orchestration company, today announced it will host a free webinar featuring supermarket giant Kroger and Microsoft entitled Frozen Peas, Identity Management & the Path to Modernization on October 7th.

Strata Identity, the distributed, multi-cloud identity orchestration company, today announced it has been recognized as a 2021 SINET16 Innovator Award winner. The annual SINET16 awards recognize the most innovative and compelling technologies that address cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities.

Strata Identity, the distributed, multi-cloud identity orchestration company, today announced it has been named a winner of the 2021 Black Unicorn Award as a Top 10 Cybersecurity Startup of the year. Presented annually at the Black Hat USA conference, the Black Unicorn Awards recognize companies that have the potential to achieve unicorn status, namely a $1 billion-dollar market value as determined by private or public investment sources.