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We recently spoke to the CIO of a large healthcare provider whose top priority this year is “restoring joy to the medical profession.” His goal is to eliminate the friction caused by the technical burden of adopting and maintaining IT systems. Unfortunately, these processes often fall on healthcare professionals (HCPs). They answer emails, log…

With a few weeks under my belt, I’m thrilled to share that I’ve joined Okta as Chief Security Officer. From its founding, Okta’s leadership team has invested in building a world-class security program, and I’m looking forward to continuing their commitment to putting customer security first. Over the past two decades, I’ve had the privilege of…

The past few months have been an exciting time of growth for Okta. After being named a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Access Management, launching our inaugural Tech Week, and announcing our second headquarters in San Jose, we’re excited to announce that we’re expanding our team in Canada with a brand new office in downtown Toronto. Why…

Community has always been a critical part of Okta: connecting people is at the heart of not only our product, but also our company culture. Last year we formalized our commitment to connecting with our community by taking the 1% Pledge, allocating our time, product, and equity to give back. A few weeks ago, we made good on that pledge by hosting…

Today we’re excited to announce that Okta has received Moderate certification in the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). Okta’s achievement of the FedRAMP certification enables federal agencies to adopt cloud applications that simplify identity management. In addition, the achievement allows Okta customers to inherit the…

We’re a year into our SCIM provisioning developer program, and we’re happy to report that many top SaaS vendors are starting to adopt the SCIM standard. As an Okta customer, that means you can automate user onboarding and offboarding across more apps than ever, saving IT time and increasing security. We’ve also added support for better group…

Believe it or not, we’re only a few months away from our favorite three days of the year — Oktane. Come August 28, we’ll be gathering thousands of IT professionals, developers and security leaders in Las Vegas to explore the extraordinary power of you. Before I have the honor of unveiling the most anticipated part of our Oktane agenda, I wanted to…

The following note was sent to Okta employees this morning. i·den·ti·ty ˌīˈden(t)ədē/ (noun) 1. the fact of being who or what a person or thing is. We’re proud that today is Okta’s first day as a public company. It is a rare and important milestone, and we celebrate the victories and hurdles both big and small that brought us to today. We…

The Okta team is on the road this spring with our Okta Forums! On March 28th, we’re headed to Chicago where hundreds of IT leaders will join Okta for an interactive day of learning, product demos and networking. Among the attendees, we’re delighted to have the kCura team join us for another Forum. We sat down with Chris Sanchez, developer…

Today, I’m happy to share the news that Okta and Stormpath are joining forces. With a six-year, laser focus on providing identity management and APIs to developers, Stormpath is the perfect complement to accelerate Okta’s enterprise platform strategy and products. Co-founders Alex Salazar and Les Hazlewood have built a team with great technical…