Gaining least privilege has become significantly easier. Traditional identity governance and administration and ITSM systems are often cumbersome for end users, necessitating costly, code-heavy development, but Okta offers a user-friendly alternative that’s easier to manage and more accessible for end users.
Okta’s approach streamlines self-service requests, accelerates development and maintenance, provides instant separation of duties (SOD) checks without coding, and integrates with Okta Workflows for advanced automation, saving time and resources while improving security and end-user experience.
Enhanced security posture
Easier least privilege implementation directly reduces the risk of unauthorized access and data breaches. Customers can feel more confident in protecting sensitive information.
- Improved compliance: Simplified management makes it easier to adhere to compliance regulations (like GDPR, HIPAA, etc.) that require strict access controls. This helps minimize the risk of fines and penalties.
- Faster onboarding and offboarding: Streamlined access requests allow for quicker granting and revocation of permissions, making onboarding new employees and offboarding departing ones more efficient and secure.
- Reduced IT burden: By offloading complex manual processes, Okta frees up IT teams to focus on more strategic initiatives rather than getting bogged down in routine access management tasks.
- Agility and scalability: Okta's solution allows organizations to adapt quickly to changing business needs. It's easier to adjust access permissions as roles evolve or organizations scale.
- Auditability and visibility: Simplified access management provides better tracking and reporting, making it easier to audit who has access to what and demonstrate compliance to auditors.
- Lower total cost of ownership (TCO): Reduced reliance on custom code and external consultants, coupled with greater efficiency, can significantly lower the overall cost of managing access and security.
- Empowered workforce: User-friendly self-service reduces wait times and bottlenecks, allowing employees to get the access they need more quickly and efficiently.
- Proactive security: Instant SOD checks prevent access conflicts before they occur, leading to a more proactive security approach.
- Modernization: Replacing outdated, cumbersome systems with a modern, cloud-based solution like Okta can significantly modernize the organization's IT infrastructure.
Key capabilities shown
- Simplifying Self-service Access Requests for end users.
- Faster development and maintenance of access requests with your existing team.
Preventative SOD at your fingertips without coding. - Integrate Okta Workflows with self-service access requests for advanced orchestration.
What makes this different
- Configured solution, not a coded solution
- Instant SOD checks when requesting entitlements that cause violation
- Third-party sources requests with SOD check
- Dynamic approvals based on owners or attributes
- Requesting entitlement collections across multiple applications
- Support of near real-time or break-glass use cases
- Support of friendly resource names, not IT-centric names
Okta’s approach emphasizes simplifying and streamlining access requests, making them more efficient, less code-dependent, and more user-friendly, ultimately focusing on achieving least privilege in a less cumbersome way compared to traditional systems.
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