In this edition: Orchestration Kitchen | Microsoft Cookbook | Spotlight
Edition No. 9: April, 2024
Welcome to the April edition of The Swell. It's getting warmer outside, but in the world of identity management, this is the hot event season! With RSA, Identitverse, and more coming up, opportunities exist to learn, connect, and get inspired abound. It's good to be back to normal in-person meets, but some of us still need to get primed for these kinds of things. So, let's gear up your senses here first with this month's content:
The most recent Orchestration Kitchen (virtual) workshop
Introduction to the New Microsoft Cookbook
Doing the "impossible" and transforming opaque tokens
Finally, this month's Maverics Spotlight is on one of our most talented and most admired engineers making the magic behind Maverics. Read on! _________________________________________
ORCHESTRATION KITCHEN
Integrate 3 decades of Microsoft products to work today
According to a 2024 6Sense survey, 79,712 companies still use Azure Active Directory, and 75,553 have Microsoft Active Directory. Are you one of them? Moving to the cloud may be the goal, but the slog of modernizing multi-generational legacy technologies is massively in the way.
This kitchen workshop shows you how to make the most of your Microsoft investments, extend the value of your Microsoft Identity services, and enable you to use a modern IDP.
How a Fortune 500 bank migrated 80 complex apps to Okta
A large bank needed to migrate 80 apps with opaque tokens from Ping Federate to Okta. The caveat? Okta doesn’t natively support opaque tokens. The traditional migration solutions wouldn't work due to risks, time constraints, and budget limitations. They needed a solution that would scale. Learn how the bank transformed its IAM to:
Support opaque tokens and migrate all of their applications to Okta from Ping.
Modernize and harden all of its apps with MFA quickly.
Build an identity fabric to avoid future vendor lock-in and have the flexibility to swap identity services as needed with ease.
Modernize your multi-generational Microsoft identity services
The Maverics Identity Orchestration Platform can be used to extend Microsoft Entra ID to secure any on-prem app. Or you can move authentication from Active Directory and fully modernize for Microsoft Entra ID. All without rewriting your apps — even if they’re old or technically complex. We created so many Microsoft Orchestration Recipes that we had to make a cookbook! Check it out.
Navigating the shift from Active Directory to cloud identity with Identity Orchestration
As Microsoft Active Directory (AD) is more than two decades old, migrating applications to the cloud is happening with greater urgency. This most often requires refactoring or rewriting each application to work with modern identity systems. Organizations are faced with the challenge of how to extend new security controls to unmanageable legacy apps that cannot be migrated to the cloud. While several challenges stand in the way of this shift, it’s possible to overcome them without rewriting your applications using a strategic approach to identity orchestration.
Meet Warren! He's been an engineer at Strata for three years, but working in IAM for over a decade. He shared some insights from his experiences:
How has identity management changed?
At my first Identity company role (Symplified), we had something called an identity router/reverse proxy, which was physical hardware we'd ship to our customers. The evolution from what was an actual on-prem identity to everything delivered via the cloud is a bit wild, given how fast it’s changed.
What would you say to your younger self?
Are you saying I’m old? Just kidding. I’m about to be a dad for the second time, so I’ve been doing some reflecting lately. I always try to ask myself, “How can I make the user experience better?” When people take a sip of their coffee and log in to start their day, I think for that brief moment, we can make their lives better because the software we build matters.
We have new telemetry charts with hover tips, we now support *.tar.gz bundle import for service extensions with assets. Also, there's a new look for docs that also supports dark mode. See our release notes for more information on our most exciting new features.
