Secure Access Manager is Exostar’s cloud platform that gives each user in the life sciences community one verified identity for accessing the clinical applications a study relies on. Rather than managing a separate login for every sponsor system, an authorized user signs in once and uses every system they have been cleared to use.

Exostar Secure Access Manager replaces the many separate credentials a team would otherwise manage with a single trusted sign-in to every authorized application. Because the identity is already recognized throughout Exostar’s community, a user joining a new study reuses the access they already have rather than beginning the setup process again.

Single sign-on is the everyday convenience of signing in once to use many applications. Federated identity is the underlying trust mechanism, the part that lets one organization accept an identity that another organization created. Single sign-on is what a user experiences, while federation is what makes it work between organizations.

It enforces governed, role-based access and records the approval for every grant. When a role or a study ends, access is withdrawn automatically, and the resulting record shows who accessed which application and when, which is the kind of demonstrable control that 21 CFR Part 11 and broader GxP expectations call for.

Most site users already exist as verified identities within Exostar’s community, so onboarding becomes a matter of granting access rather than creating and vetting an account from scratch. A sponsor that removes that delay enrolls its first patient sooner and earns a reputation as an easier organization for strong sites to work with.