In particular, there is an immediate and profound impact on the identity and access management postures of both companies.
While most combined organizations aspire to eventually consolidate their identity systems, this is a challenging and time-consuming process.
The untangling of dozens or hundreds of enterprise applications and their identity stacks takes time and deliberation.
As one of the most comprehensive and advanced IAM platforms available today, Microsoft Entra ID is often the choice to be the dominant set of identity services in the combined architecture.
Microsoft strives to make the merger and acquisition process as easy as possible and works with Strata Identity for a seamless integration.
Strata's Maverics Identity Orchestration platform does this by acting as abstraction layer to accelerate and simplify the path to consolidation.
The cybersecurity implications of user access are immediate and need to be addressed quickly, whether this be through some sort of identity consolidation, or through a higher-level abstraction encompassing the existing systems.
Strata Identity takes a different approach to the challenges of managing disparate identity systems during a merger or acquisition.
Instead of focusing on a migration of identities, Strata's Maverics Identity Orchestration Platform provides an abstraction layer on top of your apps, IdPs, and services to enable you to create your own identity fabric.
They act as a distributed mesh of control, able to pull identity information from any system-whether that be through directing for authentication or just pulling additional user information for an existing session-and convert identity information into the formats needed and expected by applications.
It continues to consume identity information in the way that it has always known and Maverics handles the rest.
Sessions that are allowed to flow through to the application have had the Microsoft Entra identity controls applied for both authentication and authorization before the traffic is permitted to reach the application in the first place.
Since Maverics is acting as an abstraction layer over the identity process, the swapping between user stores or IdPs is handled in one simple interface.
The user is unlikely to notice any impact at all as changes are made-either to migrate to the new identity source or to roll back to the old configuration.
The identity abstraction layer allows you to notify your users of impending changes, and can even assist in the enrollment of the new security factors.
This abstraction layer lets Maverics serve as the single pane of glass through which you can view the combined identity systems, securely controlling all access while, at the same time, making the incremental updates and changes to move the locus of control from these disparate systems into Microsoft Entra ID. With Strata's Maverics Orchestration Platform, mergers and acquisitions don't have to be a long, risky, and labor-intensive effort.
By adding an abstraction layer over the existing identity stacks, Strata makes shifting control of authentication and authorization over to Microsoft Entra ID seamless and simple, regardless of how complex and disjointed the previous implementation might have been.
Strata also prevents the nightmare of having to rewrite all your apps, using its ability to harness legacy apps with modern identity protocols to save your team immense time and effort.
Strata Identity is a pioneer in Identity Orchestration for multicloud 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.
This Cyber News was published on www.microsoft.com. Publication date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 11:13:04 +0000