2026 WINNER · CYBERSECURITY STARS AWARDS
Cerby Security Platform
Best Identity and Access Management Platform
Overview
Every enterprise identity program has a blind spot: disconnected apps that don't support identity standards like SAML or SCIM, or lack APIs entirely.
Identity providers (IdPs) and identity governance and administration (IGA) solutions cover the apps that can be connected. The rest get managed by hand. Admins log into each one individually to provision accounts and pull audit data, coordinating everything through tickets and spreadsheets, while end users manage their own passwords. It's slow, error-prone, and leaves security and compliance gaps that are hard to close.
Cerby automates identity security (credential management, lifecycle management, and governance) for the disconnected apps an organization's IdP and IGA cannot reach. It integrates with the identity stack already in place, extending its reach to every app it was never built to handle. Organizations keep what they have. Cerby fills in the gaps.
Research from Cerby and the Ponemon Institute found that roughly 30% of enterprise applications operate outside centralized identity systems, and 77% of organizations have experienced a security incident tied to those unmanaged apps.
Key Capabilities
Identity Lifecycle Automation for Disconnected Apps. When an employee joins, changes roles, or leaves, Cerby automates the corresponding access changes across every disconnected app, including those with no API and no SCIM support. Lifecycle workflows that already run in an organization's IdP or IGA simply extend further.
Governance Automation for Disconnected Apps. Cerby automatically syncs account and entitlement data from disconnected apps into an organization's IGA, so access evidence is current when an audit happens rather than assembled manually the week before. When an access review is complete, the IGA can call Cerby to remediate access in those apps directly. No flat files. No manual exports.
Credential Security and MFA Enforcement. When apps fall outside an organization's identity stack, credential management defaults to end users. Cerby vaults passwords, rotates them on a defined schedule, and enforces strength requirements. It also enrolls MFA directly inside each app, so authentication controls apply consistently across every disconnected app.
SSO and Session Termination. Cerby integrates with major SSO providers so disconnected apps appear in an organization's SSO dashboard alongside every other app. When an account needs to be terminated immediately, whether due to a departure or a compromise, Cerby ends active sessions across every disconnected app at once.
Connectors That Are Trained, Not Developed. Cerby trains app connectors using UI automation and AI rather than developing them against APIs or SCIM. New integrations typically go live in 7 to 10 days, and when an app changes its interface, Cerby repairs the connector automatically.
How we are different
Traditional identity solutions rely on SAML, SCIM, or native APIs to manage an application. When an app doesn't support those standards, IdPs and IGAs stop cold. Most organizations fill that gap manually, which introduces access risk, credential exposure, and audit gaps that compound over time. Cerby was purpose-built to solve that problem.
Three things set Cerby apart.
First, it connects to apps that other identity tools cannot reach. Using UI automation and AI, Cerby connects to apps that don't support APIs or identity standards. That's what makes it possible to extend lifecycle automation, governance, and credential security to apps that were never designed for enterprise identity programs.
Second, it extends the value of the identity stack organizations already have. Cerby integrates with Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, leading IGA platforms, and PAM solutions. Existing identity controls simply reach further, with no replacement required.
Third, its connector model is fundamentally different. Connectors are trained rather than built, which means faster time to value and no ongoing developer dependency. When an app's interface changes, Cerby automatically detects it and repairs the connector. That self-healing capability is what makes the approach sustainable at scale in a way that custom connector projects are not.
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