Thanksgiving is just around the corner so the holiday season has officially begun! Here at Okta we’re thankful for many things, like our employees, partners and customers. This year, we wanted to give extra thanks to one of our most favorite groups: IT admins. In the connected world, IT is the glue holding businesses together and much of what they…

Customer success is our number one company value at Okta. For my security team, that translates directly to customer security and assurance: continually demonstrating to customers how we keep their data safe and secure. Today, we announced another big step in how we protect our customers’ data with the launch of a public bug bounty program with…

With innovative solutions to energy and climate change more pressing than ever, ENGIE Deputy Group CIO Claude Pierre saw an opportunity to optimize customer energy consumption with renewable solutions. But first, ENGIE would need to work internally -- and transform the energy industry from the inside out. To tackle this entry into a new energy…

Since launching our SCIM Provisioning Developer Program in June, over 70 cloud application vendors have joined the program and successfully enabled their apps with provisioning via Okta — all using the SCIM standard. We checked back in with a few of our early program participants to learn how enabling provisioning via SCIM has helped their…

Since leaving my role as Informatica’s EVP of Worldwide Field Operations in May, I researched, met and interviewed with over 100 companies while considering my next move. I spent more than 11 years at Informatica and I had strict criteria when evaluating each new opportunity: I was looking for an industry-leading company in a fast-growing market;…

It may be the season for jack ‘o lanterns, mummies and ghouls, but those creatures aren’t the scariest things that an IT manager could confront on a typical day. What’s more frightening are the amount of typical questions technical teams get from their teammates on how to use Okta. To help with the most common Okta questions, here are some …

One of my favorite things about working as CIO is the opportunity to widely learn from experts at all professional levels. That’s why Declan Morris, CIO at Splunk, and I hosted an invitation-only dinner for IT leaders during Salesforce’s annual Dreamforce conference. The theme of the dinner was ‘life in the cloud’, with a specific emphasis on the…

In all consumer-facing enterprises, ensuring the security of customer accounts and personal information are paramount. In many cases, consumer profiles and credentials are among the most sensitive and proprietary information in your possession. Yet, achieving adequate infrastructure and protection for this data can pose challenges that many…

Demand for skilled Okta professionals is growing and as our product capabilities expand, we want to make sure that our customers and partners are maximizing value from their Okta investment and driving growth and innovation in their organizations. That’s why we launched the Okta Certification program at Oktane16, to support companies on the path…

Transparency and customer success are core values at Okta. Regrettably, this morning many Okta customers hosted in the US infrastructure experienced intermittent authentication and API errors starting at 4:30AM PT due to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) against the Domain Name Service (DNS) provider Dyn. We took steps to mitigate the issues…