In the realm of cybersecurity, understanding and implementing a multi-layered defense strategy is crucial. Okta offers protection against a broad spectrum of web threats. However, as the digital threat landscape evolves, augmenting Okta's capabilities with specialized services adds critical protection. Okta's frontline defense: Understanding ThreatInsight At Okta's front gate is ThreatInsight, a powerful tool designed to protect against credential-based attacks. Here's a closer look at how it operates: Edge/infrastructure layer: proactively blocks known malicious IPs at this layer, safeguarding its tenants from broad threats Okta ThreatInsight functionality: detects suspicious activities from IPs that are not definitively malicious but exhibit potential threat characteristics and adds suspicious IPs to its database based on their behavior across Okta's customer base, blocking or logging their activities as configured Pre-authentication policies: includes geolocation and network-based policies evaluated before credential verification, reducing false positives and improving user experience Authentication and post-authentication: involves credential verification.