Identity Engine Company

Identity Engines solves the principle mobility challenge plaguing most organizations today—how to authenticate individuals on porous networks and provision them with the minimum-necessary authorization privileges consistent with their role in or relationship to the organization. Operating at the convergence point of networking, security, and identity management, Identity Engines renders consistent and correct admission and authorization decisions through rich policies that not only interrogate identity and role-based privileges, but also location, time of day or day of the week, and method of access.

Identity Engines makes user-authenticated networks, whether wired, wireless, VPN, or a combination of access types, a practical reality by enabling fine-grained personalized network segmentation, business policy enforcement, and centralized audit capabilities all based upon existing network and application infrastructure.

Identity Engines’ customers across higher education, industry, energy, and government have deployed Ignition Server to solve role-based network access and compliance challenges including guest management, secure wireless access, QoS, smart classrooms, user traceback, and “inside/outside” scenarios.

Identity Engines’ award-winning Ignition Server™ is built on a patent-pending next-generation RADIUS server AAA platform which incorporates a powerful identity-based policy engine that orchestrates legacy network edge devices from major networking vendors with out-of-box integration for enterprise-class directories including:

OpenLDAP
Microsoft Active Directory
Novell eDirectory
Sun Java Directory

Identity Engines’ pragmatic approach is based on proven, massively-deployed technologies including: RADIUS, 802.1X, EAP, LDAP, XACML, SOAP, WPA, WPA2 and VRRP. Ignition Server is packaged as an out-of-band appliance that deploys quickly, scales to handle the highest-traffic environments and can be optionally configured for high-availability operation.

Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Identity Engines is privately backed with venture funding from Trinity Ventures, Horizon Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Committed to standards-based interoperability, Identity Engines is active in both the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) and the Initiative for Open Authentication (OATH).