Eric Karlinsky

Group Product Manager, Customer Identity

Eric Karlinsky is an Identity and Access Management professional with over 10 years of experience in the IAM industry. Before Okta, Eric was an Identity and Access Management consultant in the Washington DC Metro Area, helping public sector clients implement Identity Management programs and solutions. Eric graduated from the University of Virginia with a BS in Computer Engineering. He currently lives in San Francisco with his wife, where they enjoy exploring and hiking around the Bay Area.

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What a great day for Hybrid IT: Okta Access Gateway is Generally Available!

Today, I'm incredibly excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Okta Access Gateway: Access Gateway is a new product that enables organizations to use Okta's Cloud Single Sign-On (SSO) and Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to secure access to their on-premises web apps. We’ve been working with dozens of customers in the Early…

Okta at Microsoft Ignite 2018 — Sharepoint and Dynamics CRM

We spent last week at Microsoft Ignite 2018 in Orlando, and it was great to see where one of the largest software companies in the world is headed. But we’re even more excited about what we were there to share. Collaboration across teams—functionally and geographically, is a part of doing business that continually grows and will never go away…

How Okta and our Partners can Help You Migrate off CA Siteminder for Good

The announcement that Broadcom and CA have entered an agreement for Broadcom to acquire CA and the subsequent cancellation of CA World raises questions for many companies with CA Siteminder deployments. While Okta doesn’t claim to be a 1-for-1 replacement for CA Siteminder, many organizations are betting their futures on Okta and bringing their…

A New Era for Hard Tokens: Okta and Yubico Make Strong Authentication Easy

If you’ve seen Okta’s Best Of 2015 report we published in late December, you know that all signs point to 2016 being a banner year for all forms of strong authentication. As our data so clearly shows, the classic security question is on its way out and providers of new authentication methods (including our very own Okta Verify with Push) are…