Federation with Twingate makes sure the network never has to trust passwords again

Federation with Twingate makes sure it never has to again.

Twingate Federation lets your identity provider control access without copying credentials or syncing user data. Instead, authentication flows through your existing IdP—Okta, Azure AD, Google Workspace—while Twingate enforces fine-grained, least-privilege rules at the edge. This keeps sensitive systems invisible to anyone without verified, current session tokens.

With Federation Twingate, security becomes dynamic. Users gain access only after passing live identity checks. That access ends instantly when sessions expire, profiles change, or risk signals trigger. Everything routes through Twingate’s private relay network. No VPN sprawl. No shared links. All traffic is encrypted end-to-end, with policies applied before packets touch protected resources.

Setup is direct. You connect Twingate to your IdP’s SAML or OpenID Connect endpoints. Groups and roles flow into Twingate without manual mapping. Policies tie users to resources, network segments, or device posture. This design avoids blind spots from cached credentials or slow directory sync.

Federation with Twingate is not just about simplified sign-on. It is about control. The control to grant and revoke instantly. The control to prove identity at every access request. And the control to hide internal apps, APIs, or databases from the public internet entirely.

The benefits compound: reduced attack surface, faster onboarding, and unified visibility across cloud and on-prem systems. Compliance reporting gets easier because every request is traceable back to a verified identity. Performance improves thanks to Twingate’s optimized relay architecture that avoids hairpinning traffic through central gateways.

If your infrastructure has multiple identity sources, Federation Twingate handles them cleanly. Different IdPs can manage different departments or partners. Twingate stitches them together without merging directories or weakening policy enforcement. Security teams gain a single pane for rules and logs while keeping identity governance at the authoritative source.

To see Federation Twingate in action on a running network, deploy a demo via hoop.dev and watch it live in minutes.