Lauren Sheppard

As organizations around the globe accelerate their transition into a cloud-first, remote-workforce future, leadership teams are increasingly turning to their Chief Information Officers (CIO) to help them understand what comes next. CIOs are uniquely poised to answer the big questions, like: How do we unleash the full power of our enterprise data?…

“Going viral.” It’s a perfect term, really, to describe the particularly modern Internet phenomenon of how quickly a piece of content can spread – everyone liking that tweet, or watching that video, or reading that blog post. But along with Internet fame often comes Internet backlash, where virality turns ugly, and regular people suddenly become…

Claire Evans, host of YOU: Hey Siri. Are we friends? Siri: I’m your assistant… and your friend, too. In the latest episode of YOU, a podcast about the intersection of technology, humanity, and identity, brought to you by Okta, host Claire Evans examines how we’ve invited digital assistants, like Siri, Alexa, Cortana and Google Assistant,…

In just over a year, Toni Redman, director of sales development, EMEA, has increased the sales development representative (SDR) + business development representative (BDR) team to twenty, introduced the first year-long sales internship program in EMEA, and even had three of her team members finalists at the Women in Sales awards Europe. Read on to…

If you could create your own world from scratch, what would you do with it? Maybe it’s making teleportation the main form of transportation. Or creating a forest full of monsters. Or just building the perfect, sunny, warm beach for a virtual vacation. In the latest episode of YOU, the new podcast presented by Okta, host Claire Evans dives into the…

Does government understand technology? Does technology understand government? In the fourth episode of YOU, a new podcast presented by Okta, host Claire Evans explores what it takes for a government – and its people – to embrace the technological future. Digital Citizenship Blossoms in Estonia For people living in the United States, tales of e…

YOU, the new podcast presented by Okta, is all about exploring the intersection of technology, humanity and identity. Is there any topic more intersectional of these elements, then, than blockchain? In this third episode, “Blockchain: The Private YOU,” host Claire Evans dives into blockchain, and we’ll hear about how blockchain relates to…

Imagine losing all connection with the people you love, with your family. No ability to use text, social media, email – it probably feels inconceivable to most people in the Western world. Yet that’s often the experience of refugees displaced from their homes, and it was the experience for a young Afghan refugee, Mansour, who got separated from…

Dating. Family. Privacy. Government. Fame. Healthcare. Can you think of an aspect of identity – how we see ourselves, how we relate to each other – that hasn’t been radically changed by modern technology? Today marks the launch of YOU, a new podcast about the intersection of technology, humanity, and identity, brought to you by Okta. YOU is…

Okta helps organizations around the world scale, modernize, and bolster their technology—but what do our own IT teams and processes look like? In honor of Okta’s 10-year anniversary, we took a peek under the hood and explored some of our biggest takeaways from the past decade. We sat down with Chris Flynn, VP of employee enablement; Stephanie…