Identity and access management (IAM) is a framework that enables organisations to ensure only the right people and devices have access to the right applications, resources, and systems at the right time. IAM encompasses the various policies, services, and technologies that allow organisations to verify every user’s identity and level of access at…

You’ll often hear our CEO and co-founder, Todd McKinnon, talk about how our mission at Okta is to connect users to their technologies. An important part of how we do this is through the Okta End User Dashboard, a modern web portal that makes it simple and secure for end users to quickly get access to their applications.  With a single click, users…

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are laws that emerged to give individuals greater power over their personal information. Both regulate organisations that collect and use data in a variety of ways. A brief summary of the CCPA: Gives California residents increased transparency and control…

Being authentic is a high term of praise—if we think people are authentic, we believe them to be trustworthy, loyal, and dependable. There's a similar concept in computer security. Business networks are crucial to protect, so firms want only authorized people accessing them. In cybersecurity, authentication means verifying that a person or device…

Every company that operates production software has compliance requirements. The vast majority of those organisations also carry significant infrastructure in the cloud and/or on-premises. And they all require a safe way to provide access to their developer workforce. Traditionally, there were two ways to achieve this: building a DIY system to…

Since the 2000s, companies have turned to Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) software to achieve automation and compliance outcomes. But the traditional IGA systems we’ve come to know have been costly, complex, and designed for on-premises applications and infrastructure. They simply don’t meet the needs of today’s dynamic, remote…

Despite the immense challenges of 2020, we saw some incredible work across our customer base over this past year. These bright spots include COVID-19 responses in healthcare, educational institutions finding creative ways to help students learn, and small businesses engaging with their local communities in meaningful ways. In all of these cases,…