Teju Shyamsundar

Senior Product Marketing Manager

Teju Shyamsundar is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Okta, leading our Adaptive Authentication products. Prior to Okta, she worked at Microsoft and implemented enterprise mobility technologies across a large set of enterprise customers in various industries. Teju now works on driving the value of Okta’s adaptive MFA and Adaptive SSO capabilities across customers and partners. Teju holds a BS degree in Computer & Information Technology from Purdue University.

How to Improve Security and Usability with Passwordless Authentication

Enterprises have traditionally relied on passwords to log their employees into their accounts and services—but the practice is coming under increased scrutiny due to more modern and secure passwordless alternatives. In a previous post, we explored how businesses can adopt passwordless authentication through alternatives like factor sequencing,…

How to Escape Access Policy Hell with Risk-Based Authentication

As I discussed in my previous post, Okta’s Risk-Based Authentication feature helps organizations overcome the challenges of balancing security with usability. You may have heard a lot about Risk-based Authentication over the past couple of months, and now that Risk-Based Authentication is Generally Available, I want to give an updated overview of…

SecurityInsights: Protection at the Admin, User, and Network levels

Modern organizations are adopting new technologies more rapidly than ever before, and their increasingly mobile workforces — which include not only employees, but external contractors and partners — have expanded far beyond office walls. Today’s organizations face progressively complex security challenges, and must maintain a posture that offers…

Okta + VMware Use Cases

Following the announcement of our extended integrations with VMware last week, we thought you might enjoy learning about some of the common projects we see joint Okta and VMware customers undertake, and how the existing integration and these recent improvements can help unlock more value for our customers. Okta and VMware work together to help…

What is Passwordless Authentication?

Passwordless authentication is an emerging authentication method that has been gaining traction as of late. In this post, we’ll explore what passwordless authentication is, the usability and security challenges that passwords present, and the benefits of passwordless authentication. What is passwordless authentication? At a basic level,…

How to Boost User Retention with Risk-Based Authentication

Today consumer-facing service providers have a stark choice—to offer robust security or an easy user experience. But for many organizations, missing the mark on either of these elements can seriously damage their user engagement and retention rates—and by extension, their bottom line. To address this, we have now made Risk-Based Authentication…

Don’t Get Pwned: Stop Identity Hacks With Multi-Factor Authentication

“Have I been pwned?” It’s a question you’ve probably asked yourself before. Phishing and stolen credentials are still among the primary threat methods in breaches, and as hackers grow more sophisticated, employees and consumers have to get smarter about the credentials they use to access digital applications. On the flip side, companies also have…

Prevent Large-Scale Identity Attacks with Okta ThreatInsight

In today’s tech landscape, the importance of securing user logins has become a no-brainer. We’re constantly seeing reports of data breaches as a result of identity attacks, and we know those threat actors aren’t going anywhere. According to the 2018 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report, stolen credentials are still the #1 culprit in confirmed…

Risk-Based Authentication: Because You Shouldn't have to Choose Between Security and Usability

Balancing security with usability is a challenge that countless organizations face—both for their customers and for their workforces. We know that making both IT teams and end users happy is no easy task, which is why we are excited to announce that Risk-Based Authentication is now Generally Available for all Okta customers. The Ongoing Struggle:…

Navigating your Identity and Access Management Journey

The benefits of implementing identity and access management (IAM) speak for themselves. Having a centralized IAM solution means fewer passwords, a better end user experience, and a centralized solution for managing access to both cloud and on-prem apps and services. Despite this, investing in identity and access management is not top of mind for…