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For Security Teams

Nauthera empowers security teams to establish and enforce robust, consistent authentication policies across the entire organization without becoming a bottleneck.

The Challenge of Centralized Security

In many organizations, security teams are faced with a difficult balancing act: they need to ensure that all applications adhere to strict security standards, but they also need to avoid slowing down the development process. This often leads to:

  • Manual Toil: Security engineers spend a significant amount of time manually reviewing and approving requests for OIDC clients.
  • Inconsistent Policies: Without a centralized, automated way to enforce policies, it’s easy for inconsistencies to creep in, leading to a weaker security posture.
  • Lack of Visibility: It can be difficult to get a clear, up-to-date picture of all the OIDC clients in use across the organization and the security policies that are being applied to them.

The Nauthera Approach: Centralized Governance, Delegated Execution

Nauthera provides a powerful solution to these challenges by allowing security teams to define and manage authentication policies as code.

Define Your Policies in YAML

Create AuthPolicy resources that define the security constraints for different types of applications (e.g., web apps, mobile apps, backend services).

apiVersion: auth.nauthera.io/v1alpha1
kind: AuthPolicy
metadata:
  name: web-apps-policy
  namespace: security
spec:
  token:
    accessTokenTTL: "15m"
    refreshTokenTTL: "24h"
  allowedGrantTypes:
    - "authorization_code"
    - "refresh_token"
  enforcePKCE: true
  allowedScopes:
    - openid
    - profile
    - email
    - "api:read"

Store Policies in a Central Git Repository

Manage your AuthPolicy resources in a dedicated, security-controlled Git repository.

Automatic Enforcement

The Nauthera operator automatically validates all AuthClient requests against the relevant policies. Any request that does not comply with the policy is rejected, with immediate feedback provided to the developer via the Kubernetes API.

Key Benefits for Security Teams

  • Automated Governance: Enforce security policies automatically, without manual intervention.
  • Consistency: Ensure that all applications are configured with a consistent and robust security posture.
  • Auditability: Maintain a complete, version-controlled audit trail of all policy changes in Git.
  • Agility: Update security policies in one place and have the changes automatically rolled out to all affected clients.
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