Today, companies face a challenging world. Big breaches are constantly in the news, but many executives are underinformed about the realities of cybersecurity. Meanwhile, IT admins are overwhelmed with tasks such as conducting password resets. There are solutions for this situation—identity software among them—but effectively explaining their…

In 2016, we heard resoundingly from you — our customers — that you’re responsible for leading disruptive change within your businesses. You’re unifying your organisations, building closer relationships with your customers and partners, dreaming up brand new products and rethinking your businesses models with technology. Your missions and work are…

Enterprises are increasingly turning to digital transformation to make employees more productive and deliver new experiences to customers, however applying legacy technology for these use cases often takes too long. According to our most recent research with IDG, this balancing act can be difficult to scale. In the study, we asked IT leaders to…

Seamless and secure access— anywhere, any device, anytime for any user. It sounds simple, right? Gone are the days when employees had a Windows desktop and authenticated with the corporate network to AD to get access to apps running in your datacentre. If users were outside the company, they were funnelled in via the VPN. It’s a challenge to…

The modern workforce is fluid— the proliferation of part-time workers, contractors, vendors and distributed partner networks, each with unique lifecycles, poses a huge hurdle for access management and compliance. Organisations need to empower these users with the access and apps they need, from the (many!) devices they use, without jeopardising…

Imagine your typical weeknight: you come home for dinner, and maybe you check the mail, which is filled with unsolicited offers for new credit cards. While waiting for dinner to cook, you clear out the emails in your spam folder. And when you finally sit down to dinner with your family, the phone rings — surprise, surprise, it’s a telemarketer…

The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) generated some buzz yesterday with the release of its Digital Authentication Guideline draft. As part of its purview, NIST recommends national-level guidelines and rules for cryptography and secure communications. In the proposal, NIST recommends implementers consider authenticators other…

Protecting personal health and identity information is paramount within the healthcare industry. At Okta, we partner with HIPAA Covered Entities and their Service Providers to secure this very data, while enabling these partners to quickly innovate and remain leaders in the industry. To better serve the highly-regulated and security-conscious…

Today, we’re announcing new features for iOS devices to ensure the best possible user experience for our customers, while also enforcing strong security protections. More security is always a good thing in the minds of IT and security administrators, but it can often be burdensome on the end user. One way Apple makes strong security easy for end…

It’s been a busy few months here at Okta EMEA. This past year, we expanded into the Nordics, opened an EU data centre in Germany with failover in Ireland, obtained ISO 27001 certification for our information security management system, and announced our partnership with Box to support contextual access management. On top of that, last year we…