When employees have the opportunity to work remotely or in a hybrid arrangement, they take it. As a result, endpoints such as laptops, phones, and other devices, can be located from anywhere in the world as potential points of enterprise vulnerability. Oftentimes, device security standards are not up to date. And as organizations increasingly shift from a focus on digital transformation to building a sustainable modern, digital business, it's critical that they have a strong security posture and an agile workforce that can easily and securely access their resources. Last year, Okta introduced device assurance policies that allow customers to check sets of security-related device attributes as part of authentication policies before that device can be used to access Okta-protected resources. This helps organizations establish minimum requirements for the devices that are used to access critical systems and applications, denying access if those requirements are not met. When included as.