Styra, Inc. announced
Styra Declarative Authorization Service (DAS) for Cloud-Native Entitlements.
Solving the gap between legacy and modern application authorization,
this new capability enables Identity-and-Access Management (IAM) teams
to take full advantage of existing systems-of-record while providing
developer teams what they need-cloud-native, context-rich authorization,
replicated across clouds, regions, availability zones and clusters.
With Styra DAS, organizations can use their existing centralized IAM
systems to seamlessly move applications to the cloud and accelerate
their cloud migration with unified authorization.
As
organizations continue their digital transformation, they discover
their homegrown entitlement solutions impede progress because their
functionality also must be migrated to the cloud. These services are
built on top of LDAP, AD, SCIM, etc., and if left on-premises would
create a high-latency, single-point-of-failure for a modern
application-a clear anti-pattern for cloud applications.
"For
IAM teams that previously had to pull together their own homegrown
entitlements band aid, our technology is a game changer," said Tim
Hinrichs, co-founder and chief technology officer of Styra. "Now, with
Styra DAS for Cloud-Native Entitlements, IAM teams can finally move to
cloud-native technologies and scale to the level their organizations
require. We're the first and only organization to support this for
enterprise environments."
Styra DAS for Cloud-Native Entitlements
Styra DAS for Cloud-Native Entitlements allows organizations to decouple rules, regulations and policies from an application and use existing data sources, which:
- Improves Time-to-Market:
seamlessly provide application teams a stateless, easy-to-run
cloud-native entitlements service that can be deployed alongside their
app.
- Avoids Costs: use existing centralized IAM systems, avoid costly overhauls and understand the impact a policy will have on the application.
- Provides Audit-Ready Authorization:
access to pre-built policy packs that align to decision logs-the proof
of authorization implementation is clear and exportable.
"Styra
DAS for Cloud-Native Entitlements is addressing a difficult problem
that many enterprise IAM teams are facing as they move to cloud-native
environments," said Martin Kuppinger, Founder and Principal Analyst at
KuppingerCole. "There is a strong need for policy-based management of
these entitlements. Styra is launching an innovative solution to address
these challenges."
Styra
has experienced substantial growth and recently secured $40 million in a
Series B funding round in May 2021. In 2022, Styra will add to its
turnkey control plane for OPA to provide unified authorization across
the cloud-native stack. With the open source project growing 300% YoY to
hit over 125M downloads to date, OPA has become the de facto standard
for authorization in the cloud-native environment. Styra DAS provides
a unified policy-as-code platform, built on OPA, to ensure that cloud
infrastructure, Kubernetes, application and service mesh deployments are
secure and compliant. Together, OPA and Styra DAS provide security,
operations and compliance guardrails across the entire cloud-native
stack.