Risky Bulletin Sponsored: Why identity is critical
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Sep 28, 2025 Fletcher Heisler, CEO of Authentik and a leader in open-source identity solutions, dives deep into the critical role of identity providers in organizational resilience. He explains how effective redundancy strategies can mitigate risks and discusses real-world failures illustrating the importance of backup systems. The conversation highlights the trade-offs between SaaS and on-prem solutions, emphasizing the need for multi-IDP strategies for reliability. Fletcher also shares insights on the benefits of self-managed identity systems for customization and cost-effectiveness.
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Open-Source Core With Enterprise Options
- Authentic began as an open-source project and now offers an enterprise version with added integrations and compliance features.
- Fletcher Heisler emphasizes that organizations can use the open-source core freely and opt into paid support for extra functionality.
Real Incidents Expose Bad Backup Design
- Tom recounts Aeroflot and Maersk incidents where backups failed due to bad redundancy strategies or malware spread.
- He questions how many redundant servers are enough, illustrating catastrophic backup design failures.
Plan Redundancy For Worst-Case Scenarios
- Design redundancy by anticipating catastrophic scenarios and diversify your failover options for critical systems like identity providers.
- Avoid relying on single orchestration points that can reintroduce single points of failure.