Aaron Yee

Group Product Marketing Manager

Aaron Yee joined Okta in 2012 as the company's first Professional Services consultant. In that role, he implemented Okta for many early customers and saw how they stretched Okta’s capabilities. He subsequently joined the Product Marketing Team to continue shaping the product for modern user lifecycle management requirements. Prior to Okta, Aaron was a consultant for civilian and DoD agencies in DC, where he designed & implemented solutions to manage user lifecycles. Aaron has a BA in Computer Science from Brown University and an MBA from the University of Virginia. He lives in San Francisco and enjoys sailing, snowboarding, tinkering with cars, and rooting for the hopeless 49ers.

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10 Tips for Breaking Down the Complexities of Audits & Compliance

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…

Best Practices for Perfecting Dynamic (Yet Secure) Access Grants

Last week, we shared some advice for better managing identity lifecycle processes with some key steps for optimizing full-circle identity processes. In this post, we’ll dig into common challenges surrounding access grants. No matter how mature your access management practices are, IT and security teams are constantly confronted with questions like…

Key Steps for Optimizing Full-Circle Identity Processes

Our last post on identity lifecycle management (LCM) covered common scenarios and actionable tips for perfecting your approach to managing identity data. This week, we’ll review some recommendations for automating employee lifecycle tasks surrounding what’s commonly referred to as “joiner, mover, leaver” (JML) processes. Many IT teams struggle…

How to Navigate Ever-Changing Identity Data

As we discussed in our first post, 4 Ways to Elevate Your Identity Game with Lifecycle Management, one of your first hurdles during an identity initiative often surrounds the management of your identity data. This challenge can be mitigated by moving towards a single source of truth for, not just your employees, but also contractors, partners, and…

4 Ways to Elevate Your Identity Game with Lifecycle Management

All types of companies struggle to keep up with the increasing pace of change in today’s business environment, especially as dynamic workforces become more prevalent. At the same time, employee, partner, and customer expectations for frictionless (but still secure) experiences are soaring. In this 5-part blog series, we’ll review the pivotal role…

Six Obstacles That Block the Way to Effective Lifecycle Management

You want to set up a successful, global enterprise; so where do you start? First you establish your business, then you incorporate all the tech and processes you need to scale it. And once that’s all done, you get to a point where you work seamlessly with hundreds of contractors and partners to deliver your services to customers around the world…

How Do I Validate Proper Compliance?

Love it or hate it, paying taxes is a staple of life for people all over the world. Disclosing and proving payment of those taxes to the government is an equally accepted practice—you can’t simply assume they know you are doing so. Similarly, when it comes to compliance, it’s vital for companies to prove to governing bodies that they are…

Secure Partner Onboarding Means Automating User Access

Imagine this: you’re in your house, and you notice some water coming through the ceiling. One of your pipes is leaking. To fix it, you call your plumber to change the pipe, a handyman to patch up the ceiling, and a painter to cover the spackle. Once they’re done with their work and you walk them out of your house, you need to ensure they no longer…

How Do I Connect to Partner Identity Sources?

It’s better to be a specialist than a generalist: when you try to be good at too many things, you end up being great at nothing—and that’s why organizations today use a wide ecosystem of partner companies. Businesses across all industries are engaging with hundreds , if not thousands, of third-party entities each year—and for these relationships…

Here’s How You Solve the Lifecycle Management Problem

Every time you hire a new employee, a number of things must happen across HR and IT teams to get them access to the systems and tools they need to do their job. At the core of these onboarding processes is your company’s identity management (IDM) system, which monitors your employees’ lifecycles from beginning to end—every hire, role change,…