Okta has always made protecting cloud applications easy; and with the introduction of Okta Access Gateway we extend that protection to on-premises applications. In this article, I cover how Access Gateway delivers Okta Single Sign-On (SSO) and Adaptive Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) to the hybrid cloud fast, and without changing how your on-premises apps work today. The Challenge We started Okta with a mission: securely connecting people to the right technology, at the right time. To accomplish our mission at scale, while getting high adoption from organisations, we invested in standards-based integrations such as SAML and OpenID Connect, alongside a native catalogue of integrations: the Okta Integration Network (OIN). Today, supporting standard integrations, SSO, and provisioning is table stakes for any cloud service. And that’s why our catalogue supports more than 6,000 cloud applications natively. The ease of integrating with cloud apps pushed the boundaries towards on-prem apps.
