Kevin Gough

Director, Product Marketing - Workforce Identity

Kevin Gough is Director of Product Marketing for the Okta Integration Network. Before Okta, Kevin spent nine years at Google where helped start the Google for Work & Education division. While there, he led marketing for Google Apps, Search, and Chromebooks.

A social entrepreneur, Kevin stopped out of Stanford to found SSB BART Group, a developer tools and services business that helps make technology accessible to people with disabilities. And he co-founded Peers to advocate for portable benefits for independent workers. As a youth, Kevin sang on the soundtracks to Edward Scissorhands and Flatliners.

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Provisioning Helps ThousandEyes Customers Use Its Platform to its Greatest Potential

Enterprises are increasingly demanding that software vendors offer provisioning. That’s why we launched our SCIM provisioning program to arm developers and ISVs with the tools and support needed to build provisioning into their applications for enterprise-grade security and identity management. We recently talked to Young Xu, a product marketing…

Enhancing Our Dropbox Integration — From All Aboard to Last Stop

Onboarding a new team member comes with a lot of excitement. There’s plenty to do, from issuing a laptop and badge to assigning apps and showing the new hire where the best lunch spots are. However, when someone leaves a company things are understandably different. Offboarding is becoming far more complex as business operations change. It’s no…

SCIM: Picking Up Tailwinds

We’re a year into our SCIM provisioning developer program, and we’re happy to report that many top SaaS vendors are starting to adopt the SCIM standard. As an Okta customer, that means you can automate user onboarding and offboarding across more apps than ever, saving IT time and increasing security. We’ve also added support for better group…

What is SCIM?

SCIM, or System for Cross-domain Identity Management, is an open standard that allows for the automation of user provisioning. It was created in 2011 as it became clear that the technology of the future would be cloud-based. SCIM communicates user identity data between identity providers (such as companies with multiple individual users) and…

Seeing Success in Okta’s SCIM Provisioning Program

In today’s workforce, organizations don’t want to (nor should they have to!) compromise on security and productivity. They fully expect single-sign-on and provisioning be built into all of the applications their people want to use for work. That’s why earlier this year, we introduced the SCIM Provisioning Developer Program to help developers and…

Cloud Apps Enable Better User Experience with SCIM

Since launching our SCIM Provisioning Developer Program in June, over 70 cloud application vendors have joined the program and successfully enabled their apps with provisioning via Okta — all using the SCIM standard. We checked back in with a few of our early program participants to learn how enabling provisioning via SCIM has helped their…

OAN Expands Behind the Firewall, Below the App: Adds Networking and IaaS Integrations

The Okta Application Network (OAN) has grown to include pre-built integrations for over 5,000 cloud, on-prem and mobile applications, with rich capabilities, like “app-as-master” which drives IT provisioning and intelligent user off-boarding, helping automate the user lifecycle. But Okta’s mission to connect everything expands far beyond…