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Today, Okta’s CIO Alvina Antar announced that Okta has gone 100% passwordless for workforce apps. Every Okta resource in our tenant now uses passwordless, phishing-resistant authentication policies, representing a major elevation of our user experience and security posture.  We officially reached this milestone on August 30th, when Okta on Okta…

Hello there. I’m Jon Lehtinen, Senior Director of the Okta on Okta team at Okta. As an Identity advocate in large enterprises for nearly 20 years, I understand and appreciate the satisfaction of swapping war stories with fellow practitioners. So, I love leading the Okta on Okta team. But, despite the allure of constantly repeating our company name…

From the plans for Okta’s expansion across Asia, to the biggest challenges facing the industry, our Vice President, Asia,Neville Vincent, elaborates on these questions as well as what to expect when joining his team.   We are so excited you joined Okta! Can you tell us a bit about yourself and your background? I am very fortunate to be in Asia…

For the companies on the Forbes Global 2000 list, change is more than just a given. It’s an imperative.  For these massive global organizations, high-stakes moments like mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, expansions, and restructuring all drive growth and innovation. They also present sizable challenges that leave executives asking, “How can…

Earlier this year, Okta announced we’re going 100% passwordless, updating all of the apps and services our workforce uses to be consistent with phishing-resistant policies. Towards that goal, we're making great progress. Each week we analyze thousands of authentication events triggered by our workforce. And this past week, fewer than 2% of those…

Nearly two decades ago, the U.S. Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12) established a new identity policy for federal employees and contractors. Its goal was a strong, government-wide approach to secure both physical and logical access. Today, the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) and Common Access Card (CAC) standards are…

Being able to import identities from HR systems and manage them in Okta’s Universal Directory is the basis for all of the downstream Identity actions every customer takes with the Workforce Identity Cloud. It allows customers to develop security policies to authenticate into applications, manage user lifecycles with easy provisioning and…

Okta was honored to have several of our cybersecurity experts participate in today’s White House Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) Modernization Symposium.  We applaud the Biden administration for holding this event and shining a light on the significant roles MFA and Identity play in securing critical infrastructure and successfully delivering…

Situation: Manual processes + lack of integration contribute to Identity risk and threaten strategic initiatives Akumin is a trusted partner for hospitals, health systems, and physician groups all over the United States. Since its founding in 2013, the company has grown to become the country’s No. 2 overall radiology services provider, with…

When solving Identity challenges in higher education, IT teams tend to adopt solutions that address the traditional Identity and access management (IAM) use cases: students, faculty, and staff accounts. Many practitioners overlook the fact that there are Identity needs outside of those internal IAM challenges. These needs include managing the…