In our previous posts for this 5-part series on lifecycle management, we offered various best practices you could implement to better manage identity data, lifecycle processes, and access grants. Today, we’ll review the identity-related challenges surrounding audits and compliance, and offer ten ways to gradually chip away at the complexities of…

It’s a pretty common situation: organizations spend their resources on maintaining legacy software and legacy protocols. Today, this is often supported by hybrid domain joined devices and Microsoft Azure AD. But did you know that this can actually lead to a lax security posture?  In this type of setup, any time your users log in to a Windows 10…

This post is part of a blog series about Apps for Good—a collection of pre-built integrations to help Okta customers power their corporate and employee giving and volunteering. If you’re interested in deploying applications like these in your company, tell your Okta administrator about Apps for Good or reach out to us at [email protected]. In…

Vishing (or “voice phishing”) is a type of social engineering scam where an attacker tries to trick their target into surrendering sensitive data over the phone.  As with other social engineering attacks, these phone phishing scams prey upon human emotions—attackers often create false scenarios that cause panic (e.g., security alerts) or desire (e…

Welcome to our Founders in Focus series, where each month we highlight one of the founders of Okta Ventures’ portfolio companies. You’ll learn more about them and how they work with Okta. This month we’re speaking with Alex Kazerani, co-founder and CEO of Openpath. What is Openpath and what is your mission? Openpath was created by a team of serial…

Empower our People. In order to live up to that core value, Okta has extended itself to students from all over the world to have the opportunity to become an intern. Despite the new virtual environment, Okta has been flexible and continued to allow youth to have the opportunity to work for a world-class, identity and access management company.  I…

Can you think of a moment before 2020 when the words “in these unprecedented times” have been more widely used? Organisations all over the world are pushing their creativity to the limit to keep “business as usual” under very unusual circumstances. The coronavirus situation has impacted companies of every size, including FREE NOW, the multiservice…

At its core, Okta is an integration company. And without our partners, we simply wouldn’t be as successful. Partners help us innovate, accelerate our growth, and allow for the best-of-breed options that modern organizations have come to expect. And in our current economic environment, preparing and collaborating with our partners has never been…

We’re excited to bring to you our second Okta Showcase, our annual fall event where we give you an inside look at how we’re innovating at Okta. Constant change means that we’re all constantly adapting, and so we wanted to bring you something new today: Okta Showcase as a news show. We hope the format is enjoyable (especially since it took us two…

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…