Cloudbrink has introduced a suite of identity-management services and an integration with Crowdstrike to its Personal SASE platform. Together, these services allow customers to manage the authentication and authorization of users from a single console with a unified policy engine, the company said.
“We are continually working toward increasing security and simplifying management within Cloudbrink. Adding identity management and Crowdstrike integration provides critical authentication and authorization of both users and devices in the true spirit of zero-trust security,” said Prakash Mana, CEO of Cloudbrink.
Managing a hybrid workforce often includes third-party users (suppliers, vendors, partners) and temporary contractors, which means enterprises can spend significant time and resources managing the identity of non-employees on corporate identity provider (IdP) solutions or integrating with other IdPs where user identity is present. Integrating identity groups, determining user roles and managing application access controls for all users can be complex, resource intensive and costly, and sometimes result in a loss of centralized visibility and compliance, Cloudbrink officials said.
The company’s suite of identity-management services is designed to enable customers to manage user identity and access controls on the Cloudbrink Personal SASE platform rather than cobble together multiple disintegrated products. The integrated solution offers a single console for all operations, unified policy definitions and visibility, the company said.
Using SAML 2.0 protocol, Cloudbrink identity management is designed to integrate with all standard IdPs and support MFA and group-based role assignment to users. In addition, synchronizing user-group mapping information from the IdPs can be simplified with SCIM enabled, officials said.
Cloudbrink also supports creating and managing user-to-group mappings on the platform itself. The Users Collections feature allows customers to group users (internal and external) into different roles and apply access controls accordingly. Multigroup and nested-group configurations are supported.
In addition, Cloudbrink supports authentication and authorization of devices or machines.
Finally, the integration with CrowdStrike allows customers to read the zero-trust score from the Falcon platform and control user access to enterprise applications. This functionality enables customers to detect and remove, quarantine or block any endpoint that’s out of compliance or impacted by a malware/untrusted state immediately and automatically, Cloudbrink officials said.
