Like you, we've read our fair share of bland year-end roundups and predictions. Don't worry, this isn't one of them. We promise to pack it with plenty of spice — just like all the personalities at your family's holiday dinner. Every year promises its share of new additions, cool kids, shake-ups and even comebacks, which all play out at the table …

Three years ago, a WIRED cover story declared the password dead. This was just after the famous personal identity hack of the reporter, Mat Honan. "Today, nothing you do, no precaution you take, no long or random string of characters can stop a truly dedicated and devious individual from cracking your account," the article explained. "The age of…

We’re pleased to announce that our new product, Okta Adaptive Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) is generally available today. Okta Adaptive MFA, which companies can purchase as a standalone product, offers a broad set of easy-to-use factors combined with policy-driven contextual access management — all informed by data from our thousands of…

At Okta, we’re “always on” in every sense of the phrase, from our focus on customers to our products, service and innovation. If you stopped by our HQ last week, you likely saw that philosophy in full force. During our quarterly hackathon, our engineers rolled up their sleeves to build clever new projects that go beyond our everyday…

For many companies, creating an “enterprise-grade” product is the ultimate dream: Build an early version to fit smaller organisations’ requirements, demonstrate market viability and, finally, scale to larger customers. To be sure, that process of building an enterprise-grade SaaS product – and growing into a stable company that can support it – is…

Authentication can be one of the most significant sources of friction for your application’s users. This usability barrier can impact adoption of your product, increase the burden on support operations or product administrators and, in some cases, degrade security. At Okta, we spend a lot of time working with developers to design and build better…

Today we're excited to share that we’ve added Etihad Airways to the Okta family. Operating 260+ flights per day to more than 110 destinations globally, this brand is one you’ve probably heard of or seen, whether at an airport, in the sky or on a sporting arena. It’s also one that has selected Okta to be its core platform for identity and mobility…

At Andreessen Horowitz’s recent annual investor meeting, Benedict Evans delivered a presentation titled “mobile is eating the world.” In it, he pointed out that mobile isn’t just “mobile” anymore – we use mobile devices everywhere, not just while we’re on the move. At Okta, we’ve always been very mindful about simplifying and securing the end-to…

When we started Okta, we chose to integrate with a handful of applications: Salesforce.com, Box and Google Apps. (Microsoft Office 365, which recently surpassed Salesforce.com as the most commonly deployed app in our network of now 4,000+ applications, didn’t even exist.) As it turns out, we invested with the right ones – as those “original three”…

This post was co-written by Simon Thorpe, who works on Okta’s product team and Slalom Consulting’s Rick Koppin (Director of Slalom’s Technology Enablement practice) and Daniel Chiang (Solution Principal, leading Slalom’s Information Security and IT Optimisation practices). Daniel and Rick have a combined 20+ years of experience successfully…