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Identity Management Day 2022: Are Your Digital Identities Secure?

Published April 12, 2022

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Hosted by the Identity Defined Security Alliance and National Cybersecurity Alliance, Identity Management Day aims to provide education about the dangers of casually or improperly managing and securing digital identities, raising awareness and sharing best practices across the industry. According to Gartner, APIs are expected to be the most frequent attack vector in 2022, and...

Making Dynamic Authorization an Essential Pillar in Federal Government Zero Trust Architecture Strategies

Published March 29, 2022

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Author: Brook Lovatt, Chief Product Officer of Cloudentity The government’s focus on Zero Trust has risen in the past year, as shown by the Biden Administration's May 2021 and January 2022 executive orders and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Zero Trust Maturity Model. CISA’s Zero Trust Maturity Model is one of many roadmaps...

Build a GraphQL client application to consume protected GraphQL API resources

Published February 21, 2022

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This article is part 3 of our GraphQL application protection series. In this article, we will build a GraphQL client that is capable of invoking GraphQL API calls, obtain authorized access tokens from a Cloudentity authorization server and send the authorization token to underlying GraphQL services. Part 1: Externalized authorization for GraphQL using the Cloudentity...

Protecting GraphQL applications through authorization and consent

Published February 18, 2022

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This article is part 2 of our GraphQL application protection series. In this article, we will build a GraphQL API server and protect its resources with externalized policies administered in the Cloudentity Authorization SaaS platform. We will also protect the GraphQL API endpoint data with a local policy enforcement/decision point for the app deployed within...

Externalized Authorization for GraphQL

Published February 15, 2022

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This article is the first part of a series to explore usage of the Cloudentity authorization platform for externalized GraphQL runtime authorization along with policy based access controls for GraphQL native constructs. Modern applications require runtime and flexible authorization controls to manage the security and risk of data exposed using technologies like GraphQL to various...

Identity and Authorization At Cloud Scale

Published December 6, 2021

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The future has a lot to answer for. For decades we’ve been promised super-cool inventions that we still haven’t received - flying cars, jetpacks and IAM platforms that provide security, scale and manageability- all with wrapped up with 21st century automation. George Jetson’s job had two settings ("Start" & "Stop") and the computer did the...

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Cloudentity Featured in Gartner 2021 Hype Cycle for APIs: Accelerating Development Velocity with Authorization & Consent Automation

Published August 16, 2021

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By Nathanael Coffing, CSO and co-founder of Cloudentity We are thrilled to share that Cloudentity was featured in Gartner’s 2021 Hype Cycle for Identity and Access Management (IAM) Technologies. The report serves as a key resource for security and cloud architects who are researching which technologies to implement in order to expedite application delivery and...

Cloudentity Named Product and Innovation Leader in KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Access Management

Published February 23, 2021

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By Nathanael Coffing, CSO We’re excited to announce that for the third consecutive year, leading analyst firm KuppingerCole has selected Cloudentity as a “Product and Innovation Leader” in its annual Access Management Leadership Compass. The Leadership Compass highlights the leaders in innovation, product features and market reach for Access Management for on-premise, cloud, and hybrid...

5 Reasons to Avoid Traditional IAM’s Bridge to Nowhere

Published July 2, 2020

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Even a global pandemic isn’t reducing the demand for digital transformation. As customers look for ways to engage with applications on their smart devices and workforces are increasingly “work from home”, the need for digital transformation has accelerated. Development teams eager to progress app modernization and transformation goals are looking for ways to accelerate the...

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Identity Management Day 2022: Are Your Digital Identities Secure?

Making Dynamic Authorization an Essential Pillar in Federal Government Zero Trust Architecture Strategies

Build a GraphQL client application to consume protected GraphQL API resources

Protecting GraphQL applications through authorization and consent

Externalized Authorization for GraphQL

Identity and Authorization At Cloud Scale

Cloudentity Featured in Gartner 2021 Hype Cycle for APIs: Accelerating Development Velocity with Authorization & Consent Automation

Cloudentity Named Product and Innovation Leader in KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Access Management

5 Reasons to Avoid Traditional IAM’s Bridge to Nowhere

Symcor launches Open Banking suite of services, supported by Cloudentity

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