Mike Paiko

Director, Product Marketing

Mike is a Director of Product Marketing at Okta with a focus on Workforce Identity. Prior to Okta, he spent 7+ years at VMware where he held product marketing roles in End-User Computing and Cloud-Native Apps. He also has experience working at Wily Technology, Digital Fuel Technologies, and GE.

Mike earned his bachelor’s in Information Technology at the Rochester Institute of Technology and MBA at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. In his free time, he enjoys bowling, tennis, skiing and spending as much time as possible with his family.

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The Evolution of HR + IT Teams in the Extended Enterprise

The TL;DR: As HR has morphed into a more technology-based function, it’s quickly becoming reliant on a strong IT foundation. Simultaneously, IT needs the support of HR to sharpen its operations and security processes. Forward thinking organizations need both teams working together to implement technologies that keep them safe and productive. The…

Okta Lifecycle Management Roadmap: Conquering the Extended Enterprise

“The only constant in life is change.” While this quote dates back some 2,500 years ago to Ancient Greece, it perhaps ring true now more than ever—particularly with the speed and scale at which we’re witnessing technological change. Over the past few decades, the way we live, work, and communicate has been reshaped by our rapidly-transforming…

Managing the Risks of Contract Employee Onboarding

As a growing company, you have part-time employees, seasonal interns, partners, and contractors who all require access to your corporate apps and data. With these users coming and going at different times, and potentially spread across different departments and geographies, it’s easy to lose track of permissions and whose access must be revoked…

The 10 Most Common Questions We Hear About Choosing an EMM Provider

According to our recent Businesses @ Work report, more than 80% of users are accessing their enterprise apps from mobile devices. Meanwhile, 56% of apps on these devices are for personal use. Clearly, employees are using their own devices for both work and play, and are unlikely to adopt company-provided devices anytime soon. If you’re faced with…

How to Set Up Identity Access Management for a BYOD Workplace

In the United States, 35% of employees are now contractors or freelancers. And according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average length of time a person stays at one company decreased from 4.6 years in 2014 to 4.2 years in 2016. In an age of increasing short-term employment, it doesn’t always make sense to give employees access to…

Today’s New IT Standards: What You Need to Mobilize Your Organization

In the past, work was done at your desk. IT provided the systems and devices, and everything was done with on-premise applications. Today, about two-thirds of businesses use third-party SaaS services, which is forcing work beyond the firewall, and the use of mobile devices is on the rise. To keep up, companies need to take control of these devices…

4 Key Challenges Surrounding Enterprise Mobility (and How to Address Them)

Mobile devices are now a critical part of doing business. In fact, the global mobile workforce is projected to account for 42% of the global workforce by 2020. According to a 2016 Gartner survey, more than half of employees who used smartphones at work rely on their personally owned smartphones, signalling that using personally owned devices in…

Integrated Identity and Mobility Management for Mac OS X

We’re living in the connected era, and the mobile-first approach continues to gain momentum in the enterprise. A 2015 survey by 451 Research showed that 40 percent of companies are prioritizing the mobilization of business apps during the next two years. While mobility promises organizations greater agility in the enterprise, enterprise desktop…