Infinite Technology ∞ Ascend 🚀

In short

Ascend is a SECaaS (Security as a Service) platform focused on Web Access Control.

Ascend quickly integrates into your ecosystem and allows to:

• Configure user permissions and the needed authorizations - through a centralized permission management portal
• Authenticate users on your behalf - using a wide selection of authentication providers such as Facebook OAuth2
• Authorize user access to your resources (REST or any other Web API)

Planned launch: 2020 Q1.

Pricing

Both rules below apply at the same time.

Per granted authorization

When user enters their credentials - they are authenticated and the Access Authorization is granted.

Monthly:

• 0-5000 successfully granted authorizations - free
• Each extra: $0.01 per each successful authorization grant

Per validated authorization

When user tries to access your secured resource, Ascend will validate their Access Authorization.

Monthly:

• 0-10000 successful authorization validations - free
• Each extra: $0.001 per each successful authorization validation

Features

Ascend is a revolutionary Web Security framework, built on top of JWT specifications.

Ascend JWT represents an ACID-compliant Authorization transaction, containing sufficient information for validation of an HTTP request.

No longer the Authorization Header has only Authentication or partial Authorization data - with Ascend it is what it was intended to be - an authorization.

Ascend provides:

• Access management portal
  • Centralized and unified way to manage user access to your API
• Authorization Granting Server
  • App2app authentication
  • User2app authentication
  • Issuing Authorization JSON Web Tokens
• Authorization Validation Server
  • Autonomously validates HTTP Requests authorized using Ascend Granting Server
• Client SDK
  • Provides an API for simple communication with Ascend Granting Server
• Server SDK
  • Provides an API for simple communication with Ascend Validation Server

Documentation

• Ascend Documentation