Today we shared the news that our Chief Product Officer, Diya Jolly, is leaving Okta after four years of scaling our products and our business to pursue her own entrepreneurial venture. Diya has driven Okta’s platform vision forward and her success launching technologies like Okta Workflows and Okta FastPass has enabled thousands of organizations…

Okta is proud to announce an exciting new addition to the Okta Community: the Community Catalysts program. This private, invitation-only group provides a space for our elite members to share their expertise. What is the Okta Community? The Okta Community is a one-stop shop for people to learn about all things Okta, unlock new skills and connect…

Each month, we highlight one of the founders of Okta Ventures’ portfolio companies. You’ll get to know more about them and learn how they work with Okta. This month we’re speaking with Tony Jamous, CEO and co-founder of Oyster. What is Oyster, and what is your mission? Oyster is a global employment platform that empowers visionary founders, HR,…

Government institutions are prime cyber targets. In fact, according to a 2021 report from Auth0, more than 10 percent of registration attempts for online government services represent threat actors trying to create fake accounts. Around the world, public policymakers and technology leaders have chosen to strengthen their security posture by…

From financial impacts to disruptions in an organization's operations, cyber breaches have long had wide-ranging implications for enterprise companies. Due to the increased frequency of these breaches, the United States issued its first-ever executive order in 2021, calling for improvements to cyber security among organizations. In this new world…

A recent report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) revealed phishing attacks for the first quarter of 2022 exceeded one million—the highest on APWG record. As attacks increase, it’s reasonable to expect targeted phishing attacks to increase as well.  The U.S. government is defending itself against this growing threat via mandates and…

What a difference four years makes.  Since launching our first State of Zero Trust report in 2019, we’ve been saying that the framework represents the future of security. This year, Zero Trust adoption reached a tipping point.  In 2019, many organizations that we surveyed acknowledged that Zero Trust was important, but just 16% had invested in…

Over the past decade, we’ve established ourselves as the global leader in identity by simplifying the complex process of validating, managing, and safeguarding the identities of employees, customers, and users of apps and cloud services. At the same time, we’ve seen Okta’s global partner ecosystem evolve to better serve organizations undergoing…

What a difference three years can make.  Since 2019, when we last came together in person for our annual Oktane conference, Okta has welcomed millions of new users, launched countless new features and integrations, acquired the authentication platform Auth0, and more than tripled our workforce.   But that was just the warm-up. Because this…

Identity is foundational for a successful move to the cloud and a key element of modern security. As an independent and neutral identity provider, Okta believes that technology delivers more value and security when it’s built to integrate and interoperate with other tools and software providers—which is why we’re a founding member of the Open…