Enterprise authorization startup SGNL.ai Inc. today announced the launch of a free, noncommercial Continuous Access Evaluation Protocol/Profile Transmitter.

The idea behind the Continuous Access Evaluation Protocol was first conceived by a Google LLC software in 2019. Since that time, an informal standards development effort has grown around it and ultimately merged with an existing working group in the OpenID Foundation to form the Shared Signals working group.

Momentum has been building around CAEP, with Microsoft Corp. announcing a Continuous Access Evaluation feature and Cisco Systems Inc. offering a website dedicated to Shared Signals and associated open-source components. However, SGNL argues that new developers, until now, did not have access to an online CAEP Transmitter that they could test their Receivers against.

The release seeks to address the need for successful zero-trust deployments to have multivendor components to interoperate, especially to convey any changes to session security. The OpenID Shared Signals Framework and CAEP standards enable changes to session security to be communicated in a vendor-neutral manner.

SGNL’s caep.dev offering includes support to register and create streams to Shared Signals Framework Receivers and the ability to generate CAEP events on demand and receive them through receivers. The release also provides the ability to learn about CAEP through extensive learning center content and users can also download scripts to create an SSF Receiver instantly.

“This is an important milestone in the adoption of a standard that is seen as critical to zero-trust security,” Atul Tulshibagwale, chief technology officer of SGNL, said in a statement. “Caep.dev not only provides a ready Transmitter, it also shows how easy it is to build and adopt CAEP Receivers.”

The launch of caep.dev was also welcomed by the OpenID Foundation, with Executive Direct Gail Hodges saying that “zero-trust architectures require components from multiple vendors and interoperability between those vendors can be ensured only through standards like SSF, CAEP and RISC.”

SGNL is venture capital-backed, having raised $12 million to date, according to Crunchbase. Investors in the company include Fika Ventures LLC, Moonshots Capital LLC, Costanoa Ventures LP and Resolute Ventures LLC.

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