This week at Oktane22, our annual conference, we announced Okta’s brand purpose: to build a world where Identity belongs to you. It’s a bold ambition, the product of months of thoughtful work by countless contributors across our company. (Read more about why we’re evolving the Okta brand.) With this new purpose in mind, we set out to elevate how…

People create and exchange confidential, valuable information in SaaS tools daily, and admins are responsible for managing content from tens of teams and hundreds or thousands of users. That means IT teams need to support new, hybrid ways of working to maintain secure and efficient collaboration. To support this growing need, Okta and Miro…

This blog post is the second in a series focusing on credential phishing. Previously, in the blog The Need for Phishing-Resistant Multi-Factor Authentication, Mukul Hinge explained how threat actors are becoming more sophisticated, using various tools to overcome mitigations. Today’s post digs into the inner workings of Okta FastPass, explaining…

As we celebrate the 10th year of Oktane, the company’s largest annual customer event, I’m reminded that Oktane was also the birthplace of Okta for Good. It marked the beginning of Okta’s long-term commitment to social and environmental impact. This early pledge to give back to our communities has become so much more. Let’s take a look.  Our origin…

Today, BeyondID is thrilled to announce that we have achieved Diamond Partner status with Okta. This milestone achievement sets a new standard for Managed Identity Services Providers. Okta is the best-in-class IAM platform, as well as the pioneer in creating the Identity Cloud. This achievement is a testament not only to the success of our long…

Okta's integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) allows end users to authenticate to one or more AWS accounts and gain access to specific roles using single sign-on with SAML.  Here’s how you can further secure this integration with multi-factor authentication (MFA) access using Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) and dynamic session tags. By…

Okta Workflows is a no-code platform for automating identity processes.  This blog post is based on a question asked during office hours or the #okta-workflows channel in MacAdmins Slack: How to create a custom list filter? Getting started Let’s say you want to get a list of all user groups in your organization that start with a particular text…

Okta Workflows is a no-code platform for automating identity processes.  This blog post is based on a question asked during office hours or the #okta-workflows channel in MacAdmins Slack: ​​Translate an Okta user ID into a Google user ID? Getting started Say you’re doing an offboarding workflow, and want to trigger offboarding based on the user…

Part one of a multi-part series “Identity is the perimeter of security.” I was introduced to this phrase in 2012 after my manager returned from a conference. He scrawled that phrase at the top of the whiteboard in his office, and there it stayed until I eventually moved on from that organization in late 2013. Though I had already spent seven years…

Okta Workflows is a no-code platform for automating identity processes.  This blog post is based on a question asked during office hours or the #okta-workflows channel in MacAdmins Slack: How do you trigger a flow? Getting started There are six ways to trigger a flow. They are Schedule (flow runs periodically) Event (flow is called when a…