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Cloud access should depend on more than who you are. It should also consider the security context surrounding the request, including whether the device being used to access sensitive infrastructure can be trusted.
Iru and StratoCloud are integrating endpoint posture directly into cloud access decisions, allowing organizations to evaluate the identity of the requester, the cloud environment they want to access, required approvals and policies, and the current security posture of their managed devices before temporary cloud credentials are issued.
The result is a more contextual approach to cloud authorization:
Identity + Access Request + Environment + Approval + Device Posture → Authorization Decision → Temporary Credentials
Bringing Device Trust Into Cloud Authorization
StratoCloud provides just-in-time, context-based access to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud environments.
Rather than relying on standing privileges or long-lived credentials, each access request is evaluated when it occurs. StratoCloud can consider the requesting identity, target environment, requested role, approvals, organizational policies, and other security and operational context before issuing short-lived, scoped credentials.
The integration with Iru adds another important signal to that decision: the current posture of the user's managed devices.
When a user requests cloud access, StratoCloud can match that identity with devices assigned to the user in Iru and evaluate current device information before granting access.
Organizations can now answer two questions as part of the same authorization decision:
Is this person authorized to access this cloud environment?
Is the device associated with this person in an acceptable security state right now?
Both can be required before cloud credentials are generated.
Device Posture Becomes an Active Security Control
Administrators can incorporate Iru device posture into StratoCloud access policies.
Policies can require conditions such as device enrollment, an active assigned user, acceptable device status, and sufficiently recent Iru agent or MDM check-ins.
For managed Macs, organizations can apply additional posture requirements such as FileVault encryption, device supervision, a minimum macOS version, and Remote Desktop configuration.
This allows organizations to adapt cloud access requirements to the sensitivity of the environment.
A development environment might require a valid corporate identity and managed device. Access to a critical production environment could require approval, a tightly scoped role, and stronger device-security requirements.
Device posture becomes part of the authorization decision rather than simply a compliance signal reviewed after access has already occurred.
Context Is Evaluated Before Credentials Exist
A key part of the integration is where the device check occurs.
Iru posture is evaluated directly within StratoCloud's credential-issuance path.
If an access policy requires a managed device and StratoCloud cannot verify that requirement through Iru, access is denied before credentials are generated. The same applies when an enabled posture requirement fails or a required evaluation cannot be completed.
This creates a fail-closed security model for policies that depend on endpoint posture.
Successful authorization therefore follows a controlled sequence:
User requests access → StratoCloud evaluates authorization → Iru provides device context → policy requirements are evaluated → short-lived credentials are issued
If the required context cannot be established, the process stops before cloud access is granted.
From Static Access to Context-Based Access
Traditional cloud authorization often focuses primarily on identity and role.
A user belongs to a group. The group receives a role. The role provides access.
That model answers an important question:
What is this person normally allowed to do?
Modern cloud environments increasingly need to answer another:
Does granting this access make sense under the conditions that exist right now?
Device posture is one of those conditions.
Other contextual signals can include the target environment, requested privilege level, approval status, operational responsibility, security risk, or whether the person is currently responding to an incident.
Combining these signals enables Context-Based Access Control, where authorization reflects the circumstances surrounding the request rather than relying only on static assignments.
The Iru integration makes managed-device posture a first-class part of that context.
Designed to Fail Closed
Security context is only useful if organizations can depend on it.
If a StratoCloud policy requires an Iru condition and that condition cannot be verified, the integration does not silently ignore the missing signal.
Users without the required Iru-managed device, devices that fail enabled posture requirements, configuration problems, or upstream errors can prevent the credential request from proceeding.
Each evaluation records the result and reason, providing security teams with evidence explaining why access was granted or denied.
That means the access record can capture not only who requested cloud access, but also the contextual controls that contributed to the authorization decision.
Simple to Deploy
Organizations already using Iru do not need to deploy another endpoint agent to use device posture with StratoCloud.
Administrators connect their Iru environment to StratoCloud using their Iru API configuration and can test the connection before attaching the integration to access policies.
Device posture requirements can then be selected as policy conditions, including configurable freshness requirements for agent and MDM check-ins.
The existing Iru deployment remains responsible for endpoint management and posture. StratoCloud consumes that context at the moment a cloud-access decision needs to be made.
Endpoint Context Meets Cloud Context
Iru brings together endpoint security and management, identity and access, and compliance automation, providing organizations with rich context about their users and devices.
StratoCloud provides an AI-powered cloud control plane spanning Insights, Continuous Governance, Intelligent Remediation, and Secure Execution across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
Together, the integration connects two security contexts that are often evaluated separately:
the state of the endpoint and the authorization to operate in the cloud.
A trusted identity alone does not necessarily mean every access request should be granted. A managed device alone does not establish authority to access production.
The decision becomes stronger when identity, cloud authorization, approval, environment, and current device posture can be evaluated together.
Toward Context-Aware, Zero-Standing-Privilege Cloud Access
The integration between Iru and StratoCloud moves endpoint posture from a passive security signal into an active cloud authorization control.
Users request access when they need it. StratoCloud evaluates the request using current context. Iru provides current device posture. Required policies and approvals must succeed before StratoCloud issues short-lived credentials.
When the access period ends, the credentials expire rather than becoming another standing privilege.
This creates a practical model for context-aware cloud access:
Verify the person. Verify the request. Verify the environment. Verify the device. Then issue temporary access.
For organizations operating sensitive cloud environments, that provides a stronger connection between endpoint security and cloud security without requiring users to navigate another manual security workflow.
About Iru
Iru is an AI-powered IT and security platform that brings together identity and access, endpoint security and management, and compliance automation, helping organizations secure their users, applications, and devices while simplifying IT and security operations.
About StratoCloud
StratoCloud is an AI-powered cloud control plane that helps organizations understand, continuously govern, intelligently remediate, and securely execute operations across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. StratoCloud combines real-time cloud context with just-in-time authorization and short-lived credentials to help organizations reduce standing privilege while maintaining operational control and auditability.
