With the move to the cloud, more organizations are employing DevOps programs to streamline the delivery of software, bringing continuous innovation to customers in the form of new digital experiences. The pace of business demands velocity, so to better enable developer productivity and happiness, mature organizations must foster a culture of automation. This becomes increasingly important in a cloud-centric world, where infrastructure environments are dynamic, and elastic resources may only live for days, hours, even minutes. The supporting casts to developer velocity are the security and operations teams who power the underlying infrastructure for availability, resilience, and performance. A key challenge, when speed is the name of the game, is not compromising on compliance requirements. In other words, how can we move fast without breaking things? Okta Advanced Server Access was purpose-built to adapt to a constantly changing surface area by shifting identity left—making identity and access part of.