Industry Insight

I recently had the opportunity to chat with four forward-thinking technology leaders from Box, Slack, Zoom, and Okta to discuss how architecting a best-of-breed IT stack helps today’s IT leaders be more agile and innovative. Below is a recap of my five key learnings. Special thanks to Diya Jolly, CPO of Okta, Paul Chapman, CIO of Box, Stephen…

The growth of organizations like Uber and Airbnb has shone a spotlight on the rapidly developing application programming interface (API) economy. These two organizations—and hundreds of others like them—have found success with their disruptive business models because, rather than trying to reinvent the wheel each time, they’ve capitalized on…

By now you’ve likely heard the debate about the growth and adoption of Microsoft Teams vs. Slack. We wanted to bring a different perspective to this conversation based on the trends we're seeing across our network of thousands of companies, applications, and technology integrations, and millions of daily authentications and verifications. As the…

“Going viral.” It’s a perfect term, really, to describe the particularly modern Internet phenomenon of how quickly a piece of content can spread – everyone liking that tweet, or watching that video, or reading that blog post. But along with Internet fame often comes Internet backlash, where virality turns ugly, and regular people suddenly become…

Today’s customers have higher than ever expectations when it comes to their digital applications. These expectations are driving products to be more sophisticated with increasingly shorter release cycles. A pivotal component when building any customer-facing application is connecting directly to users, and an identity management system that is…

Up until recently, most technology architecture has been monolithic, with services and code contained within a single large and complex application. Now, we’re increasingly seeing architecture broken into autonomous units—or microservices—built for specific individual functions. Microservices increase the agility and scalability of an organization…

The goal when implementing API security is to safely ensure the right people and systems have access to the right things to accomplish their task in the shortest time necessary. In this blog we’ll take a quick look at the pros and cons of the 5 approaches to API security described in greater detail within our white paper, API Security from…

Claire Evans, host of YOU: Hey Siri. Are we friends? Siri: I’m your assistant… and your friend, too. In the latest episode of YOU, a podcast about the intersection of technology, humanity, and identity, brought to you by Okta, host Claire Evans examines how we’ve invited digital assistants, like Siri, Alexa, Cortana and Google Assistant,…

If you could create your own world from scratch, what would you do with it? Maybe it’s making teleportation the main form of transportation. Or creating a forest full of monsters. Or just building the perfect, sunny, warm beach for a virtual vacation. In the latest episode of YOU, the new podcast presented by Okta, host Claire Evans dives into the…

For most people, the idea of championing a digital migration as part of a large-scale acquisition might trigger night sweats. For Jill Porubovic, global vice president of technical workforce for Discovery, this was a challenge to face head on. When Discovery closed its $14.6 billion acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive, Porubovic oversaw…