Strata Has Been Mentioned in the 2024 Gartner® Migrate to Passwordless Authentication to Enhance Security and Optimize UX

Strata’s Maverics Platform extends passwordless authentication solutions to legacy applications that don’t support modern identity protocols

BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--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.

As organizations transition to more secure passwordless methods for both workforce and customer authentication, they often face the challenge of integrating legacy systems that do not support modern identity protocols like OAuth, SAML, or OpenID Connect. Strata’s Maverics platform addresses this gap by extending passwordless access across all applications—including legacy systems—without requiring changes to the applications themselves.

According to the Gartner report, “one of the constraints on using out-of-the-box (OOTB) options for workforce use cases is that they’re limited in scope to those directly supported by Microsoft or other access management (AM) or authentication tools. One way to address this constraint is to utilize a tool that can ‘bridge’ legacy applications to the preferred passwordless provider.”

Decoupling Identity from Applications

Strata’s Maverics creates a unique Identity Fabric, which decouples identity from applications, allowing organizations to deploy passwordless methods such as FIDO2 and biometric authentication without disruption. By orchestrating identity across both cloud-native and on-premises environments, Maverics extends passwordless capabilities even to systems bound by outdated technologies, ensuring a seamless and secure user experience.

“We believe that being mentioned by Gartner illustrates how we can help customers reduce security risks and improve user experience,” said Eric Olden, CEO of Strata Identity. “The Maverics platform makes it possible to implement passwordless methods without overhauling legacy systems, offering a scalable and non-disruptive solution for today’s hybrid IT environments.”

Strata’s identity orchestration capabilities allow enterprises to adopt passwordless authentication incrementally, eliminating the risk of hard cut-overs and single-vendor MFA bottlenecks. Maverics bridges the gap between modern identity systems and older infrastructures, enabling organizations to migrate securely to passwordless methods while preserving existing investments.

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Gartner, Migrate to Passwordless Authentication to Enhance Security and Optimize UX, by Ant Allan, James Hoover, 30 August 2024.

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About Strata Identity

Strata Identity is the leader in Identity Orchestration for multi-cloud 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. Maverics also provides identity continuity that prevents application outages by failing over to an alternate on-premises or cloud IDP when the primary IDP goes offline. By decoupling applications from identity, Maverics makes it possible to implement modern authentication, like passwordless, and enforce consistent access policies without refactoring apps. The company’s founders created the IDQL (Identity Query Language) standard and Hexa open-source software for multi-cloud policy orchestration and are co-authors of the SAML standard for SSO federation. For more information, visit us on the Web and follow us on LinkedIn and YouTube.