In this edition: Workshop | Articles | Podcast | Events
Edition No. 12: July, 2024
It's The Swell's 1st birthday 🎉! Thanks for being part of the journey. We're dedicated to bringing you the freshest in IAM and Identity Orchestration news each month. This is just the beginning. In this edition, we're diving into M&A roadblocks, exploring Identity Continuity, sharing a podcast that might just make an authorization nerd out of you, and Maverics product updates.
WORKSHOP
Getting M&A identity right
“Life moves pretty fast,” as Ferris Bueller famously said. Well, so can M&As. But in the rush to seal the deal, IAM may be overlooked. 🎥 Watch this Orchestration Kitchen workshop to see how you can make IDP coexistence and migrations seamless, ensuring a smooth transition.
BLOG POST
Uninterrupted IDP access
“In the common pattern of hybrid-landscapes (where a mixture of on-prem, cloud, cloud to on-prem and vice versa is common) having the ability to switch across IDP’s does provide some quite complex authentication failure response scenarios.” - Simon Moffat, The Cyber Hut
Cloud IDPs are the “front door” to your company’s applications. Access issues bring work to a halt. Find out in this article what always-on identity is, how it differs from disaster and recovery, and why it’s crucial for your mission-critical apps.
PODCAST
Authorization's moment in the sun
Externalizing authorization is gaining momentum. But what’s the business value? Efficiency gains and the ability to prove compliance are two big ones. Watch this insightful interview on the Identerati podcast as itexplores why you can’t ignore evolving your approach to authorization in 2024.
EVENT
Black Hat and Microsoft
Black Hat USA is coming up fast at the Mandalay Bay Conference Center in Las Vegas. If you're going, come say hi! We'll be at the Microsoft demo station (booth #1240) on Wednesday, August 6, sharing our integration work with Microsoft Copilot for Security and Entra ID.
MAVERICS SPOTLIGHT
Aldo Pietropaolo, Field CTO
Joining Strata as our Field CTO, Aldo shared why he came on board: “I love working with customers to craft technical solutions to their most complex IAM challenges. I'm uniquely positioned to do that here, having worked for Strata in the early years as its VP of Architecture.”
Fun fact about Aldo: “I started profound studies of the Old and New Testaments in 2021, which led to pursuing a master of divinity in my off hours.”
This month, we've introduced several usability improvements. Headers, claims, and attribute mapping tables are now keyboard-navigable and editable. Commit and deploy actions are streamlined into one. With Service Extension Policy Decision Lifetime, you can specify when service extensions will
re-evaluate policies for proxy app-type user flows. Learn more in our Docs.