Kelsey Nelson

Group Product Marketing Manager

Kelsey Nelson is a Group Product Marketing Manager for Okta’s platform, focused on unlocking new use cases with Okta’s APIs, SDKs and platform services like Workflows. Kelsey previously led Okta’s Zero Trust and identity-driven security work and now focuses on helping customers unlock new innovations with Okta’s platform. Prior to joining Okta, she led communications at tech startups with San Francisco agency LaunchSquad and taught middle school in the San Francisco Bay Area with Teach for America. Kelsey remains an active community member through organizations like Okta for Good and Full Circle Fund.

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The IAM Imperative: Lessons From the Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit 2021

Gartner, the global leader in research and advisory services for businesses worldwide, has held many identity and access management (IAM) summits—but never quite like this. In 2021, the virtual gathering carried a unique sense of momentum. That’s because, after a year of unprecedented digital transformation, IT and security decision-makers…

Democratizing Innovation: Okta Workflows Now Available for Customer Identity

Despite the immense challenges of 2020, we saw some incredible work across our customer base over this past year. These bright spots include COVID-19 responses in healthcare, educational institutions finding creative ways to help students learn, and small businesses engaging with their local communities in meaningful ways. In all of these cases,…

How to Build on Identity and Access Management with Zero Trust

This year, the business community was forced to adapt to a new era of distributed work—and cyber threats have adapted right along with them. Between unsecured home WiFi networks and the rise in personal devices accessing company resources, the opportunities for data theft have risen as teams have dispersed. Implementing robust identity and access…

The Next Value Accelerator for Your Business is Identity and Access Management

It goes without saying that the COVID-19 pandemic has made this a chaotic and challenging year for businesses. But it’s also increased user demand for digital adaptations and brought the value of accelerated IT practices right to the fore. Global executives and IT leaders are now seeing that a distributed—or dynamic—workforce can be a more…

Establishing Zero Trust Security, One Step at a Time

Yesterday, implementing Zero Trust security was important—today, it’s an imperative. Tomorrow, organizations that still haven’t rethought their security strategies could be left in the dust. But there’s still a chance to get ahead without investing in all the infrastructure you need at once; once you start the journey, it’s easy to continuously…

How the World’s Largest Organizations Should Respond to the Paradigm Shift of Remote Work

A catalyst. A pivotal moment. A paradigm shift. Whatever you want to call it, 2020 has changed the game for how organizations around the world operate. While COVID-19 forced a sudden transition to remote work on a massive scale, the foundations for this transformation were laid over the last few years, with rapidly accelerating rates of…

Embracing the ‘New Normal’: How Zero Trust is Empowering Government Agencies

A year ago, only about 3.4% of the total U.S. workforce worked remotely. Although it’s too soon to accurately count the uptick in remote work, suffice to say the number has grown exponentially since all of our lives were upended by the coronavirus pandemic. Federal, state, and local government agencies have faced immense pressure to continue…

Zero Trust: A Global Perspective

As people continue to shelter in place and work from home in response to COVID-19, the idea of a shifted security perimeter is now everyone’s reality. Many organizations were forced to quickly spin up remote work environments and security tools to enable business continuity during this time. And while we’ve seen a lot of rapid success, for many…

Businesses @ Work (from Home): The Education Edition

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, people and organizations are rallying to respond to unprecedented challenges. With this massive disruption to what we consider ‘normal’, more people than ever are working and studying from the comfort of home. Within our schools and universities, teachers and students are figuring out new ways of learning,…

Assessing Where Your Organization Lies on the Zero Trust Maturity Curve

Most of us are now familiar with the term “Zero Trust”, seeing it emblazoned on many a booth and bus at security conferences throughout the year. The term has certainly reached buzzword status, and with good reason: today, security leaders recognize more than ever the need to move away from a perimeter-oriented approach to security. But putting a…