Sign-in, device checks, access decisions and evidence, from a server you run.

One core process, the Pramaan broker, signs people in, checks their devices, decides access and records the evidence. OIDC and SAML applications receive their decision when a token is issued; private apps behind the connector are decided on every request.

What is checked before anyone reaches an app

Illustrative.

  1. Which way in? Only an entry point you switched on.
  2. Who is asking? A person or an agent the broker signed in.
  3. From which device? What that device reports about itself.
  4. What do your rules allow? Allow, refuse, or ask for more proof.
  5. Only then, the app. A refused request stops at the broker.

The five jobs

Illustrative
  • Sign-in
  • Access
  • Devices
  • Evidence

Identity provider

Pramaan speaks OIDC, SAML 2.0, LDAP, SCIM, each for its own job: applications sign people in over OIDC or SAML 2.0, which works as identity provider and as service provider. SCIM 2.0 provisions users in and out, and legacy applications can bind to its LDAP provider once it is switched on.

MFA

Pramaan is its own MFA provider: passkeys, number-matched push approvals and codes from an authenticator app. The second factor is checked inside the same broker that issues the sign-in.

Private-app access

Private applications are published through four entry points: a connector that dials out from beside the app, a sign-in check in front of web apps that have none, the secure web gateway and direct connections for desktop tools such as SSH or database clients. Each is switched on separately and stays off until you do.

Secure web gateway and inline DLP

An inline forward proxy and a DNS filter sit on outbound web traffic, each switched on by its own setting.

AI-agent identity

Each AI agent gets its own sign-in identity, with a named human owner, a ceiling on what it may do and a kill switch. Its token requests always need a proof from its own key, whatever the deployment-wide setting.

Identity, device, network, application

Identity

Speaks
OIDC, SAML 2.0, LDAP, SCIM
Second factor
Passkeys, number-matched push, authenticator codes

Device

Report
Sent as agent posture reports, self-reported
In a rule
A posture label such as unmanaged, or a minimum score

Network

Connector
It dials out to the broker and opens no inbound port
Default
Each app is denied unless an access rule allows it

Application

OIDC and SAML
Decided when a token is issued
Private apps
Decided on every request

What an administrator sees

Illustrative: example rows, not a live console.

Users

Employee finance group
Signs in with a passkey, push or an authenticator code. Deactivating them ends their sessions, their renewal tokens and every access token issued to them.
AI agent owned by a person
It has exactly one human owner, a permission ceiling and a kill switch.

Apps

Finance app OIDC
Decided when a token is issued; the access token lasts 300 seconds by default.
ssh-vm browser SSH
Uses just-in-time SSH certificates that live 60 seconds: each certificate is issued just before use, so the session is already open when it expires.

Devices

Phone Pramaan app
Approves sign-ins, and a browser session carries the posture captured when it was signed in: that of the device that approved it.
Browser not approved
A sign-in that no device approved carries no posture, and its tier is unknown.

Access log

Employee, Wiki Allow
A rule allows the finance group.
Contractor, Wiki Deny
Outside its window no rule matched, so the default deny refused it, and the refusal is an audit event.

Policies

Vendor window weekdays, UTC
A rule lists the days it applies on by weekday, from Sunday to Saturday.
Unmanaged devices Deny
Matches a device carrying the posture label unmanaged.

Each capability in depth

Illustrative
Pick
Read

For your engineers

Technical detail: nine listeners. All but the public one start only when set up

Illustrative
Listener
Switch
Closed

Apart from the public router, a listener opens only when an administrator gives it an address. Every setting is described in the configuration reference.

ListenerHow it starts
Public routeralways; it has a default address
Admin routeronly when an administrator sets its address
LDAP provideronly when an administrator sets its address
Connector tunnelonly when an administrator sets its address
Raw-TCP ingressonly when an administrator sets its address
Web gateway proxyonly when an administrator sets its address
DNS filteronly when an administrator sets its address
UDP tunnel (desktop client only)only when an administrator sets its address and switches it on
TLS on-demand checkonly when an administrator sets its address

Questions

Is it really one program?

Yes. One core process, the broker, does the identity, policy, device-trust and evidence work, and it starts each optional entry point inside itself rather than as a separate service.

What is off when I install it?

The LDAP provider, the connector, the entry point for direct connections, the web gateway proxy, the DNS filter, DLP and the network-level tunnel all ship off: each is opt-in. AI-agent identity ships off too.

Is there a RADIUS server?

No. Pramaan has no RADIUS server, so equipment that authenticates people over RADIUS needs a RADIUS server of its own. Inbound SCIM provisioning also has no request that deletes a user or group.

Where is every setting documented?

In the configuration reference at docs.pramaanid.cloud, which documents 156 settings. The reference is generated from the broker's configuration source rather than written by hand.

Does the policy engine see every request?

Not for every kind of application. OIDC and SAML applications receive their decision when a token is issued; private apps behind the connector are decided on every request. Access tokens are resolved on every call, but revoking a session does not end the access tokens already issued from it; deactivating or deleting the person does.

Talk to us, or try it first

  1. Book a walkthrough

    Against your own apps, not slides.

  2. Run the lab

    It uses a demonstration account; none of your data is involved.

  3. See pricing

    Published floors, named-user bands and what every tier includes.