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Identity has become a cornerstone of our digital lives, whether it’s through technology adoption at work, personal app usage at home, or anywhere in between. The fundamental role of identity manifests through nearly every person who connects to the internet, as each app, service, or tool needs to identify exactly who the user is. Reliable access…

In my previous blog, I introduced the concept of why hybrid, cloud-first, identity solutions are fundamentally different from those with an on-premises-first focus, providing you with a huge competitive advantage. Over the next few blog posts, I’ll be digging deeper into these differences, and detailing the advantages you’ll get by adopting Okta’s…

No one was ready for COVID-19—but some organizations were more prepared than others. Companies with cloud architecture are among those that have successfully weathered the storm, as it’s allowed them to be agile and respond to rapid changes in the macro environment. To give you some insight on how we’ve responded to these unique circumstances, our…

At Okta, we love securing access to everything from a single platform. And, as we deeply explored in our previous series, Secret Features of Okta Access Gateway (OAG), that includes on-premises apps. Throughout the series, our specialists demonstrated how OAG and the Okta Platform can secure on-prem web apps in ways you’ve probably never imagined!…

At Okta, our goal is to empower any organization and any person to access any technology. To do that, enterprise IT tools need to be simple and seamless to use, and should deliver intuitive user experiences while remaining highly secure. With that in mind, we’ve introduced several major updates that will significantly enhance your admin and end…

At Okta, we live to securely connect every organization to any technology. And that includes on-premises solutions. To secure these apps, we leverage Okta Access Gateway (OAG), a lightweight alternative to web access management (WAM) that provides cloud SSO and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to on-prem web apps—without requiring changes in the…

Over the last couple of decades, companies have become accustomed to safely managing their users, groups, devices, and resources within the corporate network. Using enterprise directories, they have been able to define singular access policies that determine how employees and customers can access the apps and resources they need. But as they…

At Okta, we live by our core values: love our customers, act with integrity, never stop innovating, be transparent, and empower our people. We put these into practice with our co-founder led weekly All Hands meetings and by giving back to our communities — we took the 1% Pledge prior to our IPO, offer frequent employee volunteering opportunities,…

What does it take to deliver an exceptional digital experience to users? To start, you need an engaging product or service, supported by great apps. But there are also several behind-the- scenes components that need to be factored in to keep the customer-facing experience as protected and frictionless as possible. At the same time, as companies…

We’re all tired of passwords. Employees are tired of remembering them, IT teams are tired of resetting them, and security professionals are tired of dealing with them as a major threat vector when it comes to data breaches. In addition to our frayed relationship with passwords, they also pose a threat to productivity across an organization…