Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) provider Omada has announced the availability of their new self-hosted Omada Cloud Application Gateway. This next-generation secure connectivity gateway enables seamless integration between Omada Identity Cloud, the company’s IGA-as-a-service platform, and other on-premises or cloud-hosted target systems. This can be done without requiring changes to firewall configurations. It can also be done while offering agility and Zero Trust alignment, ideal for modern, distributed IGA deployments.
“The Omada Cloud Application Gateway represents a significant step forward in providing customers with secure, efficient and easy-to-manage connectivity to Omada Identity Cloud,” said Michael Garrett, CEO at Omada. “By removing the need for complex firewall changes and putting encryption keys in customers’ hands, we’re making enterprise integration both safer and simpler.”
As enterprises expand cloud adoption, many still depend on legacy or on-prem systems excluded from modern IGA due to missing connectors or network restrictions. This creates blind spots like unmanaged admin accounts, incomplete records, and inconsistent policies, that auditors flag. Any system outside IGA, cloud or not, undermines security.
To handle this, Omada has developed the Cloud Application Gateway, purpose-built to extend identity governance across cloud environments, data centres, and distributed infrastructures. The Omada Cloud Application Gateway initiates secure outbound sessions only when needed, enabling application and identity level access without major network changes. It can be deployed on Windows and Linux environments. It also supports automatic over-the-air updates to reduce administrative effort, decrease maintenance overhead and ensure future compatibility.
“We want to deliver capability that provides a secure environment to build businesses, engage communities and allow confident decisions based on identity,” Garrett noted.
The 2025 State of IGA report examines the concerns and needs for identity governance across the enterprise in response to this. It found that the identity governance landscape is evolving rapidly. To better understand the current state, Omada surveyed over 500 IT and business leaders responsible for identity governance, access management, and cybersecurity. The findings reveal both the challenges organizations face and the opportunities for improvement in IGA.
The findings start by revealing that cybersecurity investment is up. 90% of organizations have increased funding for IT security teams. Additionally, 64% are investing in cyber liability insurance. On the other hand, legacy IGA dolutions are costly and restrictive: Nearly 60% of respondents identified high total cost of ownership (TCO) as a principal deficiency in their current IGA solution. Efficiency challenges drive IGA investment: Manual processes and complex access governance remain significant pain points, pushing organizations to seek more efficient solutions. Meanwhile AI and automation are key, with growing IGA complexity and manual processes driving organizations to prioritize AI and automation when evaluating new solutions.
The Omada Cloud Application Gateway is a breakthrough that redefines expectations for how organizations securely extend IGA across hybrid environments. Compared to other IGA gateway solutions, it delivers faster time-to-value, lower operating overhead, and stronger security with customer-controlled encryption, by combining lightweight deployment, seamless connectivity, and customer-managed cryptographic keys.
Omada’s Cloud Application Gateway has a tiny footprint and provides over the air updates that are automatically deployed and pre-configured directly from the Omada Cloud Management Portal. Omada designed the Cloud Application Gateway for easy deployment and CI/CD integration by packaging and publishing it as a Docker image on Docker Hub for faster customer setup. It can be quickly deployed on specific networks, close to the target system to be managed, in less than half an hour. Omada Cloud Application Gateway also provides flexibility in building custom integrations to target systems using simple scripting and/or third-party libraries.
“We want to deliver capability that provides a secure environment to build businesses, engage communities and allow confident decisions based on identity,” Garrett said.
Traditional identity governance processes that rely heavily on manual reviews and ticket-driven provisioning don’t align with Zero Trust principles because they succumb to permission creep, approve thousands of rubber-stamp reviews, and are plagued by onboarding and offboarding delays. These gaps directly undermine Zero Trust by leaving access unverified, excessive, and outdated.
The scale of the challenge is significant. Omada’s State of Identity Governance 2025 report shows that around 40% of organizations still operate with outdated IGA. The result is a landscape where attackers can easily take advantage of identity sprawl.