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.

Understanding FIDO Standards: Your Go-To Guide

FIDO is an acronym that comes from the Latin fido, meaning ‘to trust’, which was popularised by Abraham Lincoln—who borrowed it to name his dog. It’s a fitting name for man’s best friend, and just as appropriate in the security world, where trust is key. A more technical reference, FIDO (Fast IDentity Online), emerged in 2012 and is backed by a…

Implement MFA on Your Custom Apps and Websites, Then Brag about It (While You Still Can!)

TL;DR: Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is going mainstream(!). U2F keys (a.k.a., hardware tokens) are standing out as a great option for your customers. Add U2F support to your website while you can still brag about it.... Plus, it's quick and easy! Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is becoming mainstream. Until recently, MFA was only used to…

Meet the Experts: Dave Fend

Dave Fend is a SaaS veteran, working in the identity and the access management space for over 17 years. With Okta, he has helped to implement millions of identities around the world, and dozens of complex enterprise customers. With the recent news of the CA Siteminder acquisition, we thought it was a great time to sit down with him and get his…

Learn to Integrate Okta and Oracle Weblogic with the LDAP Interface

Okta integrates everything—including Oracle WebLogic Server. In this post, I'll show you how to use the LDAP interface to integrate Okta with WebLogic. When WLS and Okta work together Before we start: legacy app patterns Recently, we announced Integration Patterns for Legacy Applications, an eBook describing design patterns you can use to…

How Okta secures your Java EE Application Server (without reinventing the wheel)

Today’s post gives an overview of how Okta integrates with Java EE Application Servers to protect your Java infrastructure. This includes: Oracle WebLogic IBM WebSphere Red Hat JBoss Glassfish I also cover improving end-user experience and security with Single Sign-On (SSO) and Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), and how to simplify…

How Okta Integrates With Your Legacy Apps in 18 Different Ways

Okta integrates everything! That includes Hybrid IT scenarios with your legacy apps, your custom apps, your proprietary apps, as well as your infrastructure. Today, we’re releasing an eBook covering 18 standard-based integration patterns Okta supports to connect identities to your legacy apps and infrastructure. Interested? For more details to…

Off the Beaten Path: How Okta Supports MFA on LDAP in the Cloud

Okta provides an LDAP interface in the cloud (great for hybrid IT and hybrid cloud deployments). The interface does not require an agent on-premises and supports Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) over LDAP—even though the LDAP protocol doesn't natively support MFA. In this blog post, I’ll explain why and how Okta does it. Okta LDAP interface:…

First Impressions Last: Improving the Activation Experience Through Okta APIs

Organizations are increasingly building custom apps to interact with their customers, employees, partners, and contractors. The problem, of course, is that a successful digital strategy is simply not possible without a secure presence everywhere. Apps need to be available on iOS, Android, and Alexa, just to name a few. Moreover, users demand an…

Multi-Factor Authentication on Custom Apps: The Top 17 SDKs and Tutorials from Okta

TL;DR: Building login and multi-factor authentication (MFA) for custom apps can be challenging, time-consuming, and risky. This post provides the top tutorials and SDKs that can be used to quickly leverage login and MFA provided by Okta. Your developers can streamline development and focus on building the best user experience, while you control…

5 Tips for Using Adaptive Authentication Right

Adaptive Multi-factor Authentication is a powerful feature that adds flexibility to Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). Depending on your login context – for example, I'm accessing the system from a country I never did before – the MFA authentication is required. In simple words: with Adaptive MFA, depending on your context, the MFA shows up (or…