What is IAM for government?

Identity and access management controls how citizens, employees, agencies, and partners authenticate and access public digital services, ensuring every access decision is secure, auditable, and compliant with national data residency and sovereignty requirements.

Why do government organizations prefer self-hosted IAM over cloud-based solutions?

Cloud-based identity platforms can create data residency and sovereignty risks that conflict with government procurement mandates and national security policies. A self-hosted or on-premise IAM platform like Curity gives government organizations full control over where citizen identity data is stored and processed.

How does Curity support secure citizen access?

Curity supports national eIDs, BankID, eIDAS, MFA and passwordless authentication, all configurable per service and citizen type. Journey orchestration adapts the login experience to the security requirements of each use case without custom development.

Can the Curity Identity Server be used across multiple government agencies?

Yes. The Curity Identity Server federates with existing identity providers across departments and agencies, providing a shared access layer with centralized policy. Each agency keeps its own systems while Curity enforces consistent security across all of them.

Public Services Demand Sovereign Access.

Government organizations run the Curity Identity Server to secure citizen portals, cross-agency access and partner integrations on infrastructure they fully control, with standards-based compliance and predictable costs.

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Every digital service is an access decision the public has to trust

Citizen expectations are outpacing legacy infrastructure
Digital services, mobile apps, self-service portals. Citizens expect the same seamless access they get from commercial platforms. Legacy access systems built for internal use can't deliver that experience.
Sovereignty is a policy
Government data must stay on government infrastructure. Cloud-dependent identity platforms create dependencies that conflict with procurement mandates, data residency requirements and national security policies.
Cross-agency complexity keeps growing
Multiple departments, agencies and external partners all need different levels of access to shared services. Separate access systems per agency create duplication, inconsistency and risk.
Zero trust mandates require a new access architecture
Government cybersecurity directives increasingly require token-based, zero trust approaches. Legacy perimeter security doesn't meet the standard and retrofitting it is more expensive than replacing it.

One platform for citizen access, agency integration and sovereign deployment

Government organizations don't have the resources to run separate access systems for citizen services, internal applications and cross-agency workflows. Curity consolidates all three into one standards-based platform built for the security and sovereignty demands of the public sector.

Secure citizen access with standards-based authentication
OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, national eIDs like BankID and eIDAS. Journey orchestration adapts per service and per citizen with MFA, passwordless options and step-up authentication configurable per use case.
Unify access across agencies without rebuilding
Federate with existing identity providers across departments and agencies. Each maintains its own systems. Curity provides the shared access layer with centralized policy and consistent security.
Deploy on sovereign infrastructure
Self-hosted, on-premise, cloud or hybrid. No SaaS dependency, no data leaving your perimeter. The Curity Identity Server runs where government policy requires, not where a vendor's architecture demands.
Meet zero trust requirements with token-based security
Every access decision is authenticated, scoped and auditable, replacing implicit perimeter trust with verifiable access control across agencies and APIs.
Keep costs fixed on public budgets
Flat-rate licensing. Citizens, employees, agencies, partners: the price doesn't change. Public sector budgets need predictability, not identity costs billing that increase with every login.

What developers get

Token Intelligence for government APIs
Fine-grained control over every token issued to citizens, employees, agencies and external partners. The Token Designer allows teams to customize issuance per consumer type. Phantom Token patterns keep sensitive claims out of external-facing APIs.
Standards that meet government requirements
OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SCIM, with support for FIPS-compliant deployments. Developers integrate using open standards without proprietary SDKs. No vendor lock-in, which matters when procurement policy demands interoperability.
Configuration, not custom code
Authentication flows, consent management, token policies and agency onboarding are all configurable. When policy changes, flows update server-side without redeployment or re-procurement.

What customers say

It continues to give us an identity management platform that is straightforward to operate and provides us with full control over the sensitive personal and health data we manage.

Johnny Hjelmek, Administrative Manager of Infrastructure, Region Jönköping County

Region Jönköping County has relied on Curity since 2016 to secure access across three hospitals and 40 primary care clinics serving 365,000 citizens. They needed centralized access management that could enforce consistent security across locations while keeping all data on their own infrastructure. Curity delivers SSO with multi-factor authentication, sovereign deployment and the operational simplicity a public sector IT team requires.

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