Scytale Enterprise: Overview
Modern enterprise applications are increasingly being built upon interconnected software services that are often managed by different lines of business. These services are deployed on platforms that often include capabilities like cloud hosting, elastic scaling, and container orchestration. The recent explosion in both the number of services and underlying platforms creates substantial service-to-service authentication challenges. Security products such as network/application firewalls and API gateways, and authentication protocols such as Kerberos and oAuth, are not addressing the service-to-service authentication needs of modern enterprise applications.
According to a research 93% of IT executives are concerned about their service authentication credentials, while 83% agree that their technologies and processes to mutually authenticate services cannot scale as their organization adopts a more dynamic, hybrid cloud strategy.
Employing continuously-attested identities for services (not humans) helps them take their early “zero trust” steps.
Strengthen your security posture and protect your existing investments
Boost staff and developer productivity
Speed cloud and container adoption
Reduce time to market from weeks to minutes
The idea of Enterprise came after successfully launching and maintaining an open source project called SPIFFE. As a company, we needed the ability to scale SPIFFE in some fashion to a commercially viable product in order to be a successful cloud security company. So the idea of having a platform that utilized our open source project was born
We believe we have built the proper infastructure and UI to address all the user's needs to handle identity management in these complex times
The challenge of bringing any new product to market - especially in the SaaS sector - is to fully understand the functionality that needs to be built in its entirety before beginning to build it
The ideas of what to build were built upon the functionality that was built into SPIFFE and SPIRE, the open source projects. We used this as a guidepost to begin to develop UI that addressed these features and added functionality on top of those features if needed for usability