Airlock IAM
Customer identity and access management, self-hosted or as a Swiss-hosted service.
- Swiss CompanyThe operating company is headquartered and legally incorporated in Switzerland.
- Swiss DevelopedThe product is primarily developed by a team operating from Switzerland.
- Swiss Data OptionSwiss hosting is available as an option or for part of the service, but is not the default for everything.
- Self-hostableCan be installed on your own servers or on-premises.
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Overview
Airlock IAM is a customer identity and access management (cIAM) product from Ergon Informatik AG in Zurich, sold under the Airlock brand as part of the Airlock Secure Access Hub together with the Airlock Gateway web application and API firewall and the Airlock Microgateway. It handles registration, login, single sign-on and access control for web applications and APIs. Supported methods include FIDO/WebAuthn and passkeys, one-time passwords, SMS codes, client certificates and the Airlock 2FA smartphone app, with risk-based and step-up authentication. Federation is available via SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect and Kerberos, and the product includes self-service, social login, consent management, delegated administration and a REST API.
Most customers run Airlock IAM themselves, as a Docker image or as a self-contained application on supported Linux distributions, backed by a relational database. Since April 2026 Airlock also offers Airlock IAM as a Service, a managed SaaS edition operated by Airlock and hosted in Switzerland, built on the same software core as the self-hosted version. It is billed as a subscription with a fixed base fee and a component based on monthly active users and is sold mainly through partners; no prices are published.
In January 2026 the private equity investor Afinum became the majority shareholder of Ergon, replacing the founder and long-standing anchor shareholders. Management and many employees remain shareholders, and Ergon states that the company continues with its existing team and offering.
Why it may be a Swiss alternative
Airlock IAM is operated by Ergon Informatik AG, which is headquartered in Zürich. Headquartered in Switzerland, but ultimately controlled by a company outside Switzerland.
Swiss hosting is available for part of the service or as an option — check the hosting details below before relying on it.
May replace
- Auth0Okta, Inc. · USMainly installed and operated by the customer; the managed SaaS edition launched in April 2026 and is sold mainly through partners.
- OktaOkta, Inc. · USPositioned for customer identity (cIAM) rather than workforce identity.
Foreign products with overlapping functionality. An alternative is not necessarily a one-to-one replacement.
Swiss footprint
Five independent questions. A Swiss company is not automatically Swiss-hosted — and vice versa. How the footprint is assessed
Swiss company · foreign parent. Headquartered in Switzerland, but ultimately controlled by a company outside Switzerland.
- HeadquartersIs the operating company headquartered in Switzerland?
- Zürich, Zurich (ZH), SwitzerlandVerified[1]
- Legal jurisdiction
- OwnershipIs the company ultimately Swiss-owned?
- No — Afinum (fund Afinum X) · GermanyVendor claim[3]
In January 2026 the private equity investor Afinum became majority shareholder, replacing the founder and the long-standing anchor shareholders; management and many employees remain shareholders. The acquiring fund, Afinum X, is a German investment partnership managed by Afinum Management GmbH in Munich, which also has a Zurich office (Afinum Management AG). Airlock is a brand and product line of Ergon, not a separate company.
- DevelopmentIs the product developed in Switzerland?
- HostingIs customer data hosted in Switzerland?
- Optional — SwitzerlandVendor claim[2]
Airlock IAM is mostly installed on infrastructure chosen by the customer or a partner, so the hosting location depends on the deployment. The vendor-operated Airlock IAM as a Service (since April 2026) is hosted in Switzerland; IT-Reseller reported, citing Airlock, that it runs on Microsoft Azure's Swiss region. The infrastructure details below refer to this SaaS edition.
- InfrastructureIs the hosting infrastructure operated by a Swiss-owned provider?
- No — Microsoft Azure (Switzerland region) · United StatesVendor claim[5]
Features & platforms
- Platforms
- Deployment
- Made for
- Interface languages
- Unknown / not verified
Privacy & security
- Multi-factor authentication
- Yes
- Single sign-on (SAML/OIDC)
- Yes
- Public API
- Yes
- Not verified
- End-to-end encryption, Encryption at rest, Encryption in transit, SCIM provisioning and Data export
- Certifications
Pricing
- Pricing model
- On request
- Free plan
- No
- Free trial
- Unknown / not verified
- Enterprise plan
- Yes
- Billing in CHF
- Unknown / not verified
Prices checked 15 Oct 2026. Always confirm on the vendor’s site. Pricing page ↗
Open source
- Open source
- NoVendor claim[6]
Airlock IAM is part of the commercially licensed Premium Edition. Only Airlock Microgateway is offered as a free Community Edition.
Company
Zurich-based software company, founded in 1984, that builds custom software and develops the Airlock application-security and identity products.
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- Airlock Gateway — Network Security
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Sources & verification
Every claim on this page is marked as verified, vendor claim or inferred. Unknown means we could not confirm it — not that the answer is “no”.
- Verified Confirmed by an independent or official source such as the commercial register.
- Vendor claim Stated by the vendor in its own documentation, website or legal terms.
- Inferred Derived by the editors from indirect evidence — see the note.
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