We are thrilled to announce the general availability of Okta Privileged Access, our new privileged access management (PAM) offering, beginning this week. Okta Privileged Access is a powerful solution that elevates your security infrastructure and helps provide controlled access to your critical systems, applications, and data. This empowers your…

Remember when workforce Identity management meant dealing with a tangled web of individual point solutions, each tied to specific applications and handled manually in Excel spreadsheets?  As an Identity practitioner for over 20 years, I can recall back to the early 2000s when there were numerous point solutions from various vendors to solve…

Image generated using DALL-E Background Okta’s inbox platform supports various products in Okta’s Workforce Identity Cloud, where human input is required. It is most notably instrumental in the Access Request flow of Okta Identity Governance. A lot of what we do is trigger-based. These triggers can be a human action — “grant access when the…

We are honored to share that Okta is recognized by Gartner® as a Leader in their 2023 Magic Quadrant™ and are proud of our longstanding Leadership in this report. Okta has been a Leader in this report every year since the first Access Management Magic Quadrant™ was published in 2017.  Why we’re a leader again Okta's vision is to free everyone to…

Here’s the second blog in our series detailing how focusing on Identity can help your organization improve end-user experiences and meet consumer expectations.  If you work for or support a government agency, you’re well aware of the recent legislative and industry push to improve digital experiences for the American public.  Examples run from the…

We're thrilled to announce that Okta, the leading independent Identity partner, is now a proud member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). This partnership marks a step forward in our commitment to the ever-evolving world of cloud-native technologies and reaffirms our dedication to providing secure and seamless Identity and Access…

The Administration’s release of the Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence is an important step forward for the thoughtful and responsible development and deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI). We support the goals of the Executive Order to embrace the beneficial impacts that come with AI while mitigating…

I recently had the privilege of organizing a knowledge-sharing webinar, where we brought together a panel of cybersecurity insurance (CSI) experts. Our discussion revolved around the present and future state of the industry, and I gained a wealth of valuable insights along the way that inspired this blog.  One of the prevailing themes during the…

Wondering how to most effectively and efficiently architect an Identity solution at your large or otherwise complex organization? Multi-tenancy could be your answer (for Customer Identity and Workforce Identity use cases).  Two of Okta’s skilled Technical Account Managers, Adam Dunham and David Weston, recently took the stage to speak about …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) may be organizing our social media timelines and automatically improving the pictures on our phones, but it’s a field that’s widely misunderstood.  AI is, after all, an incredibly complex field in computer science, where the top researchers earn as much as NFL quarterback prospects. It introduces terms seldom found in…