Frederico Hakamine

Sr. Technical Product Marketing Manager

Frederico is a jack of all trades and master of none. He has been designing, developing, customizing, and breaking systems for more than 10 years in the field. Frederico spends his time at Okta developing code and promoting the Okta Platform and APIs. In his spare time, he cracks some code for his wife's startup and works on silly projects like his own beer and music.

Secure On-Premises Solutions with Okta: Secret Features + a Preview

At Okta, we live to securely connect every organization to any technology. And that includes on-premises solutions. To secure these apps, we leverage Okta Access Gateway (OAG), a lightweight alternative to web access management (WAM) that provides cloud SSO and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to on-prem web apps—without requiring changes in the…

The Secret Features of Okta Access Gateway: Part 1: Multi-data Center and Multi-Tenancy

At Okta, we love to secure access to everything, from cloud apps, to consumer apps, to servers, and infrastructure—from a single platform. And that, of course, includes on-premises apps. In our new series The Secret Features of Okta Access Gateway, we’re going to explore some of the best secret features of Okta Access Gateway (OAG) to secure…

3 On-Prem Security Myths Debunked

As technology evolves, we’re often faced with misconceptions around how it works and how we can use it. Whether it’s that Apple computers are immune to viruses or that private browsing keeps user activity anonymous, there are a number of security myths that surround our technology—and change how we use and protect it. This trend applies to both…

4 ways Okta Access Gateway boosts security for on-prem resources

In 2019, we made the exciting announcement that Okta Access Gateway (OAG) is available to all of our customers. In that post, we described how Access Gateway helps businesses implement modern access management solutions like single sign-on (SSO) and adaptive multi-factor authentication (MFA) across their on-premises applications. The result is…

Understand Web Access Management—Then Move On

Figuring out how to secure users’ connections to applications is an age-old challenge that has developed alongside the digital transformation of the enterprise. Traditionally, businesses have addressed this issue with complex authorization systems, many of which used web access management (WAM)—or on-premises single sign-on (SSO)—at the center of…

FACT OR FICTION: I Need Separate SSO Solutions to Access Apps On-Prem and in the Cloud

At Okta, we are highly invested in the latest ideas and practices around authentication and security—and that requires some myth busting. This blog is the latest in a series of posts meant to tackle common misunderstandings and myths around single sign-on (SSO). See below for our full list of the myths we've seen (and busted!) around SSO. In…

What Problems Does Okta Access Gateway Solve? We’ll Tell You.

Back in 1968, Boston Consulting Group founder Bruce Henderson wrote that “all organizations, like all organisms, must adapt to changes in their environment, or die.” Now, some 51 years later, these words ring truer than ever. Moving away from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud has become a must for most organizations—but facing and deploying…

Your C-Suite's Not Sold on Hybrid Cloud IT? Here’s How to Change That

As an experienced IT professional, you understand the benefits of migrating your company’s IT operations to the cloud. You also know that convincing your C-Suite of that is not an easy task. In their eyes, moving to the cloud means an expensive IT overhaul, workforce interruptions, and a laundry list of other hassles. And their concerns are fair…

How To Protect On-Prem and Hybrid Cloud apps With Okta (Fast)

Okta has always made protecting cloud applications easy; and with the introduction of Okta Access Gateway we extend that protection to on-premises applications. In this article, I cover how Access Gateway delivers Okta Single Sign-On (SSO) and Adaptive Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) to the hybrid cloud fast, and without changing how your on…

How FIDO2 + WebAuthn Offer a Seamless, Secure Login

For those not familiar with FIDO2, it is an improved version of the FIDO standard – popularly known for the U2F USB tokens provided by Google and Yubico. Now that we've explored what Webauthn is and reviewed critical Webauthn building blocks and protocols, I’ll use this post to break down how you can leverage WebAuthn with FIDO2 to enhance both…