MFA exceptions, audits and cyber insurance · Beanstalk Authentication Broker

Close the legacy-application gap in your MFA rollout.

Security reviews often expose the same uncomfortable exception: most systems use central identity and MFA, but a critical legacy application still has its own sign-in. Beanstalk helps bring those applications under modern identity policy without starting a replacement project.

MFA exception reduction Audit-friendly identity No replacement project Central policy

The audit question is simple. The legacy answer often is not.

When a reviewer asks whether critical applications are covered by MFA, older desktop, ERP and client/server systems can become the difficult part of the answer.

They may not support SAML or OIDC. They may not have a maintained authentication module. They may be business-critical enough that replacing them is unrealistic within the deadline.

Beanstalk gives management and IT a practical middle path: keep the application, but modernise the sign-in path.

What Beanstalk changes

  • Users authenticate through the organisation’s existing identity provider, including MFA when required by policy.
  • Credentials stay with the identity provider and browser-based sign-in flow, not inside the legacy application.
  • The application receives a verified identity result that can be mapped to its existing users and roles.

What this can help demonstrate

  • A plan to reduce or remove legacy MFA exceptions rather than leaving them indefinitely unresolved.
  • Centralised identity policy applied to systems that previously sat outside the standard sign-in model.
  • A bounded, practical control that can be evaluated quickly before a broader modernisation or replacement decision.

What it is not

  • Beanstalk is not a security audit, insurance guarantee or compliance certification by itself.
  • It does not replace the need to assess application authorisation, logging, endpoint security, patching or operational controls.
  • It is a focused authentication bridge for one common gap: legacy applications that cannot speak modern identity natively.
Practical next step

Find out whether your application is a good candidate.

Tell us the application technology, current login method, identity provider and deployment model. We can usually tell quickly whether Beanstalk is a practical fit, what would need to change, and where the integration risk sits.

Common questions

No. Acceptance depends on the insurer and the whole control environment. Beanstalk can help address a legacy application MFA gap, but it is not an insurance guarantee.

It is usually better to have a practical remediation path than a permanent exception, especially for critical applications.

Beanstalk is designed for fast evaluation and integration, especially when the application can call COM and the identity provider supports standard OIDC registration.

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