Beyond Outages: How Strata’s Identity Continuity Technology is Transforming IAM – Gerry Gebel – IDV24 #1
In today’s increasingly complex cloud environments, ensuring continuous access to identity services is critical for maintaining business operations and security. Gerry Gebel, VP of Product and Standards at Strata Identity, will discuss the recently announced Identity Continuity product, designed to provide uninterrupted identity services even during outages. Unlike traditional disaster recovery solutions, Identity Continuity autonomously fails over to alternate identity providers, ensuring seamless access management. Join us to explore how Strata Identity is enhancing resilience in the identity management space.
Segment Resources: Strata Identity Continuity Product page: https://www.strata.io/maverics-platform/identity-continuity/
According to the 2023 State of Multi-cloud Identity Report, 56% of those surveyed said that they experienced interruptions to their cloud IDP twice a year or more, and 62% said they had two or more annual interruptions due to their cloud IDP itself being unavailable. Meanwhile, 23% of business decision-makers surveyed by Parametrix estimated downtime costs their organization $500,000 or more per hour, while 60% said they are “very concerned” about cloud downtime.
State of Multi-Cloud Identity report: https://strata.io/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/State-of-multi-cloud-identity-2023_Strata-Identity.pdf Parametrix Survey = https://www.reinsurancene.ws/leading-cloud-service-providers-faced-1000-disruptions-in-2022-parametrix/
This segment is sponsored by Strata. Visit https://securityweekly.com/strataidv for more information about Identity Continuity!
Guest
Gerry is a recognized leader in the identity management space. His accomplished career spans over two decades in which he has been instrumental in providing requirements definition, architecture development, and strategic planning for identity management projects with Fortune 500 corporations. In his current role as Head of Standards for Strata Identity, Gerry promotes standards-based approaches for addressing the challenges of managing distributed multi-cloud and hybrid cloud/on-premises identity systems.
Prior to joining Strata, Gerry managed business development for Axiomatics, a global provider of access control solutions. Previously, he was Vice President & Service Director with identity-focused research firm Burton Group for nearly 10 years, covering authentication, biometrics, federated identity, PKI architecture, identity management, authorization, user provisioning, privacy, directory services, and security architecture. He authored research reports on identity standards such as SAML, WS-Federation, XACML, and Liberty Alliance.