Did you know that around 65% of SaaS applications used within organizations are not approved by IT? Business-led IT is driving a massive surge in SaaS adoption, with end users and business units rapidly selecting the best apps to do their jobs—often without IT or security involvement. Many of these apps are disconnected apps, meaning they don’t support modern identity standards like SAML or SCIM and sit completely outside of the organization’s identity tools.
But SaaS is only part of the picture. Organizations have long relied on other disconnected apps: on-premises systems, legacy tools, portals, and homegrown applications. These may not be new, but they are just as critical and just as disconnected as the newest SaaS apps flooding into the enterprise. Together, they make up a significant portion of the enterprise application landscape and represent a major governance blind spot.
In the best case, organizations attempt to manage these apps manually: onboarding and offboarding users via tickets, performing user access certifications with spreadsheets, and emailing users to manually update passwords. In the worst case, they ignore disconnected apps entirely. Most organizations fall somewhere in between—resulting in incomplete compliance, wasted time, audit headaches, and unnecessary risk exposure.
The good news? There’s a better way.
Okta has long been the leader in identity management, and its recent offering, Okta Identity Governance (OIG), makes governance modern, intuitive, and faster to deploy than legacy Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) solutions. And now, with Cerby, even disconnected apps—SaaS or otherwise—can be brought into the fold.
Most IT, security, and Identity and Access Management (IAM) teams don’t realize there’s a solution for disconnected apps. Instead, they rely on end users, app owners, and admins to self-manage access. These users aren’t security or identity experts, yet they’re tasked with setting strong passwords, enrolling in Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), configuring passkeys, and removing former employees’ accounts—all manually.
Disconnected apps lack the APIs and standards that would make this easy to automate. That means organizations are relying on human effort to keep these apps secure. That’s a big risk—and exactly the problem Cerby was built to solve.
Cerby acts as the missing link in your identity stack, extending identity controls to apps that can’t connect via SAML, SCIM, or APIs. Behind the scenes, Cerby securely automates previously manual, error-prone identity tasks, removing the burden from end users, admins, and app owners.
What Cerby can do:
Cerby doesn’t replace your identity platform. It completes it.
Identity governance platforms like Okta OIG are incredibly powerful—but only for apps that are connected.
Disconnected apps create visibility gaps:
Without this information, organizations can’t:
This forces IAM teams into a painful choice:
Neither option is desirable—or secure.
This is where Cerby + Okta Identity Governance changes the game.
Cerby acts as the bridge, feeding user, entitlement, and app owner data from disconnected apps into OIG. This enables OIG to govern those disconnected apps like any other in your stack.
With Cerby + OIG, you can:
The result: 100% governance coverage, faster compliance cycles, and maximized ROI on your governance program.
Cerby goes beyond governance into real-time security control. After a UAR campaign, if access needs to be revoked, Cerby can kill sessions in disconnected apps immediately—ensuring no residual access remains.
Pair this with Okta’s Universal Logout, and you get full session control. Envision this powerful incident response workflow:
This delivers speed, assurance, and protection across the entire app ecosystem.
The Cerby + Okta integration is one of the most exciting developments in identity governance this year, and we can’t wait to show it to you.
Be among the first to see how Cerby is redefining identity governance with OIG at Oktane 2025. We’ll have a booth on the expo floor and are hosting two sessions:
Get all the details here: https://www.cerby.com/resources/blog/a-world-of-sweet-surprises-awaits-at-oktane