Modern identity infrastructure works great—until it hits an app it can’t manage.

Whether it’s a SaaS tool with no SCIM support for user management, a legacy system behind a firewall, or a vendor platform that locks SSO behind an enterprise paywall (“the SSO tax”), disconnected applications are still everywhere—and still a major risk for organizations of all sizes.

But what if your disconnected apps weren’t disconnected anymore?

That’s exactly what the Cerby Application Network is designed to solve—backed by powerful integration technology built for enterprise scale.

What is the Cerby Application Network?

The Cerby Application Network is a collection of pre-built and fully validated Cerby integrations for thousands of apps, extending the reach of your identity controls to enable:

  • Enterprise single sign-on (SSO) integrations for any app, right from your existing identity provider (IdP)
  • Multi-factor authentication (MFA) on any app, enrolling users to have Cerby-managed MFA for a seamless and secure login experience
  • Automated identity lifecycle management (LCM), securing and streamlining user access throughout the entire joiner/mover/leaver (JML) journey by eliminating the errors and delays associated with manual processes
  • Execution of governance actions and comprehensive data collection from disconnected apps, automatically incorporating them into your governance framework

Why closing the app gap matters

Enterprise application environments have never been more diverse. Organizations today manage hundreds of applications across SaaS, cloud, on-prem, mobile, thick client, and legacy systems. These applications vary widely in how they authenticate users, what protocols they support, and whether they integrate with modern identity tools at all.

Many lack support for standards like SAML, SCIM, or OIDC. Others reserve integration features for top-tier licenses. And some simply weren’t built with identity in mind. As a result, critical applications often sit outside your Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) systems—leaving behind manual workarounds, inconsistent access controls, and growing security gaps.

Cerby bridges that gap by extending your identity stack to every application—no matter how it’s built or where it lives. That means centralized control, consistent enforcement, and fewer surprises when it’s time to audit or demonstrate compliance.

By closing the app gap, the Cerby Application Network extends the reach of your existing tools, allowing you to:

  • Keep access up to date through automatic synchronization of user groups and permissions
  • Eradicate manual processes by enabling automated security workflows for disconnected apps
  • Extend governance policies across all apps, with consistent enforcement of access controls
  • Unlock full control and seamless administration with centralized user management for disconnected apps 
  • Simplify audits, access reviews, and compliance reporting through enhanced visibility that helps to consolidate fragmented identity data and shine a light on shadow IT 

Ultimately, these capabilities (and others) help to strengthen your security posture, enhance workforce productivity, meet compliance obligations, and get full value out of the significant investments you’ve already made.

How Cerby builds new app integrations

With thousands of applications in use across the enterprise—and countless versions of each—we prioritize new Cerby integrations based on customer requests and ecosystem monitoring.

Cerby’s app integration process

Our proprietary integration framework combines API operations with advanced UI automation to ensure reliable, scalable integrations that Cerby proactively monitors and maintains.

The first phase of the integration process starts by thoroughly documenting:

  • Your integration requirements, to understand what workflows you need (e.g., identity lifecycle management, MFA, SSO, credential management automations, etc.)
  • Application details, to understand your current setup (e.g., app version, authentication method, user roles and permissions, etc.)

Next, our team will need access to the app so we can understand how it works. There are three options available: 

  • Direct Admin Access: Cerby uses a temporary admin account in a test or sandbox environment (this option is especially common for on-premises or homegrown apps)
  • Automated Exploration: Cerby’s browser extension, Scout, learns how the app performs the desired workflows
  • Self-Service Access: Using a self-service or trial account, the Cerby team becomes familiar with how the app functions

Based upon the integration requirements and app details, our team will recommend which approach is most appropriate, but the outcome of this phase is the same: Cerby has all the information needed to connect this app to your existing identity and governance controls.

From there, we’re ready to proceed through the remaining phases of the integration process: development and testing, validation, and continuous improvement—where we use self-healing automations to maintain performance, eliminating the drift and degradation that often come with custom-built or one-off scripts.

And that’s how we close the app gap!

Why choose Cerby as your partner?

If your team is still tracking access manually, scripting custom connectors, or maintaining brittle workflows just to keep your identity security posture intact, there’s a better way.

The Cerby Application Network was built for exactly this problem—and we’re ready to help.

Explore our integration library or request a new one today.