Policies that follow the identity, not the network. Wardengate evaluates who someone is — and what they are allowed to do — at the gateway choke point on every session.
Firewalls answer whether a packet may arrive. Identity-bound policy answers whether this person may open this session to this target right now. Network location, VPN membership, and shared jump box accounts are poor proxies for intent. The IdP is the source of truth for subject attributes.
Group membership, role titles, employment type (employee vs contractor), MFA freshness, device posture, and geolocation feed the policy engine at connect time. Attributes sync from Okta, Azure AD, Google Workspace, or SCIM — no duplicate user store to drift out of sync.
Operators authenticate as themselves; the gateway maps to target accounts via secrets brokering. Session recordings show named individuals — not admin or root. Shared break-glass accounts, if retained, are time-boxed, approval-gated, and recorded at higher fidelity.
When someone leaves or changes teams, IdP deprovisioning removes their grants on the next sync — no hunt for orphaned SSH keys on bastions. Vendor identities expire automatically when contracts end. Policy changes version explicitly so auditors know which rules applied to historical sessions.
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