The Cloud Gateway is a small light-weight Windows application which acts as a connectivity gateway between customer environment and the EmpowerID SaaS tenant. It enables the EmpowerID Cloud SaaS tenant to inventory and manage the customer’s on-premise systems without requiring ports to be opened on their firewall. The Cloud Gateway is a lightweight application that can be installed on a Windows 10 desktop or server machine inside the on-premise network. Upon installation, the Cloud Gateway generates a public and private PKI certificate and registers the public key in the customer’s SaaS tenant for encrypted and secure communications. The Cloud Gateway then makes a secure and encrypted outbound HTTPS (TLS) connection to an EmpowerID queue in Azure as a bridge for communication between the EmpowerID Cloud servers and the customer’s on-premise network. Customers may install multiple Cloud Gateways on-premise for fault tolerance and increased performance.
