Oktane15 is only a month away and everything is coming together. The venue is set. Our speakers are all on board. We’ve put together a lineup of great activities — both informative and fun. But there’s one thing we can’t go to Las Vegas without … you! Already in its third year, Oktane15 is on track to be another successful three days where CIOs,…

Last week, our CEO Todd McKinnon sat down (or rather, “hung out”) with Michael Krigsman to discuss tech valuations, the future of identity management, and cloud and mobile adoption trends on a recent episode of CXOTalk. Okta is in an exciting period of growth for the company, with hundreds of employees, thousands of customers, and a new round of…

We recently wrote about the expanding role of IT (and why you should take your CIO to lunch!). As organizations in every industry increasingly lean on their IT teams to support critical business services, CIOs are facing bigger responsibilities than ever before. Thanks to the rise of infrastructure and software as a service, CIOs can embrace these…

Almost nine months ago, we built and launched the Okta Help Center. An initiative many months in the making, the Okta Help Center introduced a central destination for all things Okta service and support within the Okta Community. It created one central location for our customers – many of whom had already been active since 2013 – to troubleshoot…

Last month we released our first ever “Businesses @ Work” Report, which shares findings from our network of 4,000 applications, thousands of custom integrations and millions of daily authentications and verifications around the world. Our dataset identifies several fascinating industry trends for those making or considering significant investment…

Everyone on the mobile team here at Okta is very excited about Apple’s release of iOS 9 today. The new mobile OS includes key features we will be integrating into Okta Mobility Management (OMM). For example, iOS introduces the ability for OMM to assume management of pre-existing mobile applications, which makes onboarding new users easier than…

For years, big data has been one of the hottest buzzwords in technology. And despite its hype, many companies and analysts still consider it a relatively obscure concept that they haven’t quite gotten their arms around. Not at Okta. We hired our first Director of Analytics and Big Data back in September 2013 to define our strategy, promote data…

CIOs are moving up in the world. We’re seeing IT leaders taking on strategic business roles, getting promoted to CEO and appointed as board members. And it’s no coincidence. A fitting motto for the modern CIO is the adage, “Times of great change also bring great opportunity.” The new world of mobile apps, cloud services, and the Internet of Things…

Dreamforce 2015 is less than a week away and that means it’s crunch time. You’ve made sure your outfit doesn’t clash with your lanyard, reserved your hotel room and mastered the lyrics to every Foo Fighters song to prepare for their Thursday night performance. But with more than 130,000 attendees and 1,500 sessions to choose from, Salesforce’s…

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…