October is National Cybersecurity Awareness month, but for hackers, every day is spent staying aware of new cybersecurity threats. We were excited to sit down with Matias Brutti, Okta’s senior manager of research and exploitation, whose team spends time hacking to keep Okta’s customers safe from any potential vulnerabilities. Read on to see how they do it, and how Matias’ passion for hacking started with “numbers soup”. When did you join us and why did you choose to work at Okta? I joined Okta four and a half years ago as our first technical security hire. When I learned about Okta, I was excited for two reasons. From a business perspective, what Okta was doing made sense-- it’s an elegant solution to a very real problem. At the same time, I liked the challenge I was being presented with. Okta was going to provide the keys to the.