Identity security grew in separate layers. Mirket brings them together
Workforce IAM protects authentication and application access. Privileged access management protects privileged credentials and administrative sessions. Neither problem is optional, and neither approach is wrong — but operating them as two separate systems creates a problem of its own.
| Approach | What it does well | Where the complexity usually appears |
|---|---|---|
| Workforce IAM | MFA, SSO and application access | Privileged sessions, credential vaulting and non-human identity typically come from additional products. |
| Traditional PAM | Privileged credentials, sessions and administrative access | Workforce authentication and application single sign-on typically come from a separate identity layer. |
| Mirket | Workforce, privileged and non-human identity | One platform across all three — the same console, the same users, the same audit trail — on infrastructure you choose. |
Where two systems meet, the seam between them is where the gaps live: the second factor one system enforces and the other never sees, the account that exists in one and is stale in the other, the audit evidence that has to be assembled from two places before anyone can answer a simple question. Mirket reduces that seam by running authentication and privileged access on one platform, over the same set of users, into one audit trail.
The industry left on-premise behind. A lot of your identity still lives there
Active Directory. Applications that only speak LDAP. Servers reached over RDP and SSH. Directories that can't move for reasons of regulation, sovereignty or plain control. For many organisations, a real part of identity is on-premise on purpose. Yet much of today's identity market is designed cloud-first, even when the identities and the systems being protected have stayed where they are.
One example is a matter of record rather than opinion. Microsoft retired Azure MFA Server in September 2024, removing one of the better-known options for organisations that had been running multi-factor authentication on their own infrastructure. Those organisations were pointed at the cloud.
Mirket has taken the opposite architectural position. On-premise is a first-class option across the parts of the platform where customers need the infrastructure and the identity data under their own control — the same releases and the same roadmap as everything else, not a compatibility mode kept alive for old customers. Privileged sessions are recorded where they happen, the zero-trust connector dials out from inside your network, and the LDAP proxy sits between your applications and your directory. The recordings, the credentials and the directory traffic stay in your environment.
The identity nobody was watching doesn't log in at all
Every product you connected to the directory got a service account — the firewall, the VPN, the ERP, the in-house system. It has no person behind it, a password that never changes, and rights that often read most of the directory. It can't be put behind MFA, and nobody reviews it, because there's no joiner-mover-leaver process for a machine.
Non-human identity is a genuinely different control problem, which is why it tends to sit outside whatever was deployed for people: these accounts cannot complete a second factor, they depend on long-lived credentials by design, and rotating those credentials breaks the applications that hold a copy. Mirket treats it as a first-class part of the platform — a virtual credential with no counterpart in the directory, rotated on a schedule, scoped by source and directory branch, without touching the applications that use it.
One console. One set of users. One audit trail
Seven modules — MFA, single sign-on, secure self-service, privileged access, zero trust network access, the LDAP proxy and identity threat detection — share the same users, the same directory integrations, the same logging and the same management console, rather than behaving as disconnected products. That's what lets a server and a SaaS application appear on the same screen, and the behavioural layer read the sign-ins the rest of the platform is already producing rather than a copy exported somewhere else.
Don't take our word for it
Every claim on this page is checkable. The modules are on the feature matrix, the deployment split is on the deployment page, and the release notes are public — you can measure the pace yourself.
