Authorization Trust Center

Standards & Ecosystem Interoperability

In a rapidly evolving, AI-dominant identity landscape, interoperability is key. PlainID is built on open standards to ensure your authorization engine works with your existing stack — and future-proofs your architecture as the enterprise evolves.

  • OpenID Connect
  • AuthZEN
  • OPA Rego
  • OAuth 2.0 RAR
  • SCIM
  • NIST SP 800-207
Protocols & Standards

Universal interoperability across your stack

PlainID natively supports the industry's leading standards to deliver interoperability across your entire technology stack.

  • OIDC
    AuthN & AuthZ

    OpenID Connect (OIDC)

    Identity layer built on OAuth 2.0. Enables secure verification of end-user identity via standardized JWTs passed between applications and authorization servers.

    • PDP consumes OIDC tokens as identity signals
    • Token enrichment with dynamic claims via all major IDPs
    • Platform access is OIDC-based
  • AuthZEN
    AuthN & AuthZ

    OpenID AuthZEN

    Standardizes the API format for PEP–PDP communication. Universal JSON-based access requests evaluate subject, resource, action, and context to return boolean decisions.

    • Seamless interoperability across enforcement points
    • External components communicate directly with PlainID PDP
    • Enables dynamic, externalized access control
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  • OIDC-A
    Draft StandardEmerging

    OIDC for Agents & Delegated Authority

    Proposes explicit delegated authority for AI agents using on-behalf-of flows. Embeds distinct identities for human delegator and acting agent within access tokens.

    • Parses OBO credentials to identify human principal & agent
    • Dynamically enforces scope attenuation in real time
    • Prevents privilege escalation in agentic workflows
  • OPA
    Policy Language

    OPA Rego

    Open-source declarative policy language used by Open Policy Agent to define policy-as-code across cloud-native stacks.

    • Full compatibility with existing Rego-based logic
    • Policy-as-code alignment and interoperability
  • OAuth RAR
    AuthN & AuthZ

    OAuth 2.0 Rich Authorization Requests

    RFC 9396 extension enabling clients to specify granular permissions during authorization requests, producing highly detailed “smart” access tokens.

    • Natively consumes smart tokens enriched with RAR data
    • Enables precise, dynamic access decisions
  • SCIM
    Identity Mgmt

    SCIM

    Open standard for automating user identity synchronization across identity domains and IT systems — keeping identity data consistent enterprise-wide.

    • Full SCIM compatibility for identity & attribute discovery
    • Authorization engine always evaluates on up-to-date data
Audit & Compliance

Your journey to automated audit & compliance

Open standards connect your infrastructure. Our runtime authorization platform reduces manual work, provides transparency for non-technical auditors, and closes security gaps across vendors.

  • Full Audit Trail for Auditors

    Decision logs in both technical code and AI-generated plain-language reasoning for business auditors.

  • Native Policy Governance

    Import and centrally govern existing policies in vendor-native languages like Snowflake or Databricks — no rewriting required.

  • Vendor Comparison Insights

    Identify inconsistencies and security gaps between PlainID policies and third-party SaaS vendor rules via side-by-side impact analysis.

  • AI-Driven Regulatory Alignment

    AI-guided insights automatically map active authorization policies to major frameworks like GDPR and HIPAA for instant validation.

Industry Frameworks

Aligned to leading security & governance frameworks

PlainID maps directly to foundational enterprise security standards — from Zero Trust architecture to AI governance.

  • Zero Trust & Governance

    NIST SP 800-207

    PlainID acts as the core policy decision and enforcement engine for Zero Trust architectures, enabling continuous, context-aware authorization that never implicitly grants trust.

  • AI Governance

    CSA Agentic AI IAM

    PlainID serves as the Dynamic Access Control engine (Layer 3) of the CSA's Agentic AI IAM architecture, governing autonomous agents within explicitly defined, secure boundaries.

  • AI Governance

    MAESTRO (CSA)

    Within the MAESTRO framework, PlainID provides runtime authorization guardrails governing Data Operations (L2), Agent Frameworks (L3), and Security & Compliance (L6).

Build on standards. Stay vendor-neutral.

Get a technical walkthrough of how PlainID's runtime authorization platform plugs into your existing stack via open standards.