
Consumers Value Sharing. Security Will No Longer Stand in Their Way.
Authorization management has evolved to meet consumer sharing expectations and habits that they have acquired through social media, while ensuring security and privacy.
Authlete & Scaled Access’s cloud services enable organizations to build and operate OAuth 2.0 compliant advanced authorization servers with user-wise access control, including user-to-user, user-to-organization and user-to-application.
Authlete’s authorization engine provides backend Web APIs to implement OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect and, together with Scaled Access, empowers people to access and share protected resources securely and autonomously.
Organizations have the ability to add relationship types as a condition to get and share access. These relationships are managed in a graph database and correspond with User-Managed Access (UMA) policy conditions.
This future-proof managed service solution is designed to scale self-serviceable, fine-grained access within any ecosystem. Their API-based setup and their commitment to open standards such as OAuth, OpenID Connect & JWT makes integration easy.
The architecture is developer friendly and enables organizations to build authorization server front ends with their favorite programming languages and frameworks.
Many companies and organizations rely heavily on their Web API infrastructure to serve their core customers and open up access to protected data, content, devices or functionalities.
In order to provide Web APIs, they need to implement the OAuth 2.0 industry protocol for authorization and OpenID Connect as an identity layer on top of the OAuth 2.0 protocol. However, implementing the right specifications requires a lot of time and effort.
Authlete’s backend Web APIs enable organizations to easily get the functionality of OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect. Authlete implements different endpoints to issue access or ID tokens, register and manage API clients, define audiences and scopes and validate access tokens.
The diagram below shows an example of an Authorization Server built in the Customer Environment:
Authlete is a backend that’s offered as a service that works behind the organization web service and does not interact directly with your end-users, OAuth clients, or relying parties.
Scaled Access evaluates if authorization requests match the access policy in place.
Scaled Access offers advanced authorization capabilities, tailored to each specific organization ecosystem and needs. Its unique authorization model includes the use of relationships to map out policy permissions contained in the authorization/access token.
Utilizing relationships means that organizations can empower their teams or customers to invite the people they know or work with, to get access to the same protected resources.
The configurable access policies also enforce the different types of consent that come with ecosystem sharing (user-to-user, user-to-organization, user-to-application).
“This architecture allows you to build a solution where API Clients get smart tokens that contain scopes and custom claims in line with the business rules that take into account end-user attributes, relationships and consents. The resulting access tokens have changed from single-user ABAC to multi-user ReBAC-based authorizations.”
Authlete and Scaled Access accelerate the development of a secure OAuth/OIDC-compliant authorization server that can handle complex use cases and grant permissions based on user-to-user relationships.
The sequence diagram below shows the interactions between the different participants in the above architecture diagram.
The most important steps in the sequence diagram have been numbered and are explained below the diagram.
Authlete provides OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect implementation solutions through cloud and on-premises software service integral to API (Application Programming Interface) Security. APIs reduce friction in communication and interaction between programs and help to integrate systems. Financial Institutes, Healthcare, IoT have been using APIs to provide value to customers and businesses.
Authlete is unique as the platform stores tokens “off-site”, reducing vulnerability of the main apps/servers/databases. Also, authentication and authorization is separated, meaning authorization credentials can be anonymized and are very loosely tied to identity, reducing the impact of breaches and leaks.
Scaled Access lets organizations adapt authorization to their business needs. Scaled Access deploys a unique authorization model that uses attributes, context and relationships to map out permissions.
Its cloud-based solution manages permissions to multiple systems from a single platform, streamlining the access process and reducing administrative burden. Its graph database can manage an unlimited number of users, resources and applications.
Scaled Access has a Zero trust infrastructure and automatically verifies each access request and offers CARTA-inspired access controls and visibility.
Scaled Access is already being used by 26 million consumers worldwide and is trusted by global enterprises, such as, Coca-Cola, Mars, Johnson & Johnson, Merck and Shell.
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