1. Introduction: The Problem No One Questions Anymore During a conversation with a large enterprise last week, their IT head said something painfully familiar: “Our users authenticate at least four times — device login, VPN login, SSO login, and then additional authentication inside certain applications. Every layer adds latency, attack

This week a customer told us: We have strong control over our Windows endpoints using GPOs, but our Linux systems are a blind spot. They sit outside centralized administration — every change needs a manual script, and every audit means chasing logs. This is a reality many IT teams quietly

The Challenge: A leading enterprise recently told us — We’ve nailed employee onboarding and access, but contractors and vendors? That’s a black hole. HR doesn’t see them, IT doesn’t manage their devices, and access revocation is hit or miss. We offboard people manually, but months later we still find logins

Voice of the Customer: Our teams are spread across cities, countries, and even continents. We have contractors, remote employees, and BYOD users all accessing critical systems. Managing permissions with separate identity tools was chaotic. We couldn’t see who had access to what, and onboarding or offboarding users safely felt like

The New Reality of Work Hybrid work has redefined enterprise access. Employees, contractors, and partners are no longer confined to office networks — they’re connecting from homes, shared spaces, and mobile devices across geographies. While this flexibility drives productivity, it has also introduced a new form of risk: remote access

The Challenge: A customer told us this week… they were managing separate directories across different locations. Each business unit and geography had its own setup. Employees ended up with multiple accounts, devices weren’t centrally tracked, and authentication policies varied from one application to another. The impact was clear: Duplicate and