Modern Identity for Modern Campuses
Replacing legacy patchwork with a single platform that automates complex lifecycles and governs every identity at scale.
What your peers are solving right now
Legacy debt and silos create blockers that lock in technical risk and institutional fragmentation.
The problem: Decades of legacy patches, scripts, and fragile integrations block campus modernization.
Why it matters now: Fragmented identity stalls cloud migrations, forcing IT teams to maintain patchwork instead of strategic roadmaps.
How institutions are solving it: A mid-size public university consolidated identity and MFA into a single platform with campus-wide SSO.
The problem: Orphaned accounts and stale privileges pile up each semester, creating unmonitored entry points and data exposure risks.
Why it matters now: Manual reviews cannot keep pace with campus churn, leaving institutional compliance and core databases vulnerable.
How institutions are solving it: Notre Dame unified their complex ecosystem into a single identity platform to eliminate visibility gaps.
The problem: Users concurrently hold multiple roles (student, staff, alumnus), creating heavy customization and administrative overhead.
Why it matters now: Peak enrollment surges strain manual provisioning, while delayed offboarding inflates licensing costs and security blind spots.
How institutions are solving it: Technical College System of Georgia automated lifecycle management for 150,000 students, replacing manual workarounds.
The problem: Decentralized deployment of agentic AI is creating severe visibility gaps outside of central IT controls.
Why it matters now: Stochastic agents hold powerful database credentials and run at machine speed without built-in accountability.
How institutions are solving it: Security teams enforce identity gates to discover shadow bots, scope access, and implement execution-time kill switches.
What are you looking to achieve?
Modernize Campus Security
Verify identities at enrollment. Eliminate account takeovers with phishing-resistant MFA.
Automate Identity Lifecycles
From applicant to alum, new hire to retiree — access adjusts instantly as roles change.
One Identity Fabric, Inside and Out
Consolidate access management and governance onto a single platform, then federate it across research consortia, multi-institution grants, and academic partnerships — all on the industry's largest integration network.
Secure AI on Campus
Govern AI agents and machine identities alongside human identities. One control plane for discovery, access, and credential lifecycle.
Evaluating identity for higher ed
Five Capabilities that matter on campus
Works across the full campus technology mix
Banner, Canvas, Workday, Google, Microsoft, homegrown research apps, legacy LDAP, and InCommon Federation from one neutral platform with 8,000+ pre-built integrations.
Handles multi-affiliation lifecycles natively
Student-employee-researcher-alumni transitions are managed out of the box, including the attributes InCommon-federated services expect. No heavy customization - which can break at scale - is needed.
Governance aligned to the academic calendar
Certification campaigns for internal and federated access that adapt to semester starts, enrollment surges, graduation cycles, and summer transitions, rather than arbitrary annual review schedules.
Discovers what you don’t know you have
Finds orphaned accounts, ungoverned entitlements, shadow systems, and federated access relationships across the full identity surface, not just the systems you already knew about.
Extends governance to AI and non-human identities
Same lifecycle controls, same control plane. AI agents, service accounts, API integrations, and the machine identities used in multi-institution research workflows.
Point solutions for access, lifecycle, and governance don’t add up to a platform. They add up to more friction.
Okta unifies governance across the full campus identity landscape. Pre-built integrations, semester-aligned certifications, automated lifecycle management, and separation of duties work together natively.
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