In today's fast-paced business world, scaling growth often comes with increasing complexity. For large global enterprises, especially Global 2000 organizations, this complexity is magnified by multi-org deployments. Recent research shows that over 90% of Global 2000 companies are multinational conglomerates, and two-fifths maintain between 11 and 50 subsidiaries, each with its own unique identity stack. For their central admin teams, maintaining visibility, enforcing consistent policies, and ensuring security and compliance across these siloed units can be daunting.
With Okta Aerial, now Generally Available, you gain a single pane of glass to view, manage, and secure all your Okta organizations from one unified platform. Powered by the new account layer, Aerial connects every Okta org under your account, delivering centralized visibility, stronger security, and greater operational efficiency.
The Challenge: Keeping Up with Multi-Organization Environments
Multi-org environments are essential for many large enterprises. Whether it’s separating development and production, managing multiple business units, or simplifying M&A integrations, multiple orgs often make business sense. But they also introduce security challenges:
- Limited visibility: Subsidiary orgs often operate in silos, making it difficult for central admin teams to gain a unified view across all environments, especially during M&A integrations.
- Operational inefficiency: Each org may have their own security policy, admin access management, and audit trails, with unique variations across individual environments, which increase overhead and slow down response times.
- Increased risks: A single overlooked org or misconfigured admin role can create security blind spots, leading to widespread security risks in your business.
Without a centralized management solution, central admin teams face an overwhelming challenge in manually managing the security posture across siloed orgs. Adopting point solutions or expanding central admin teams won’t solve the issue. Enterprises need a centralized multi-org management solution that enhances security and governance without sacrificing the autonomy of individual business units.
Introducing Okta Aerial: Unified Multi-Org Management
Okta Aerial is designed to solve these challenges and serve as the home for account management across all of your Okta orgs going forward. Okta Aerial provides a centralized console for viewing and managing all your Okta orgs across subsidiaries, production and preview environments — all in one place.
With Okta Aerial, you can:
- Gain centralized visibility into all orgs associated with your Okta account
- Strike the right balance between business autonomy and centralized visibility
- Unlock secure, zero-standing admin access to help reduce admin sprawl
By unifying multi-org management across your Okta tenants, Aerial helps reduce risk, streamline operations, and empower your teams to scale securely.
Okta Aerial Key Use Cases
- Centralized Admin Access Control
Okta Aerial helps reduce security risks by centralizing admin management. Instead of having dozens of admins per organization in your Okta account, you can invite them all to Aerial and assign time-bound access to downstream Okta organizations, ensuring zero standing privileges (ZSP).
- View All Provisioned Organizations
Okta Aerial provides a single pane of glass view for every organization provisioned under your Okta contract. This makes it easy to view all the organizations you know about, as well as identify any orphaned or unused organizations that may need to be removed, keeping your environment clean and secure.
- Centralized Security Settings Management (coming soon)
In the future, Okta Aerial plans to enable you to manage security settings such as network zones and session policies from one place, applying them consistently across all your organizations in your Okta account.
The Value You Gain with Okta Aerial
Managing multiple orgs shouldn’t mean sacrificing visibility or control. With Okta Aerial, enterprises can unify multi-org management under one secure, centralized platform.
Aerial empowers you to:
- Enable business continuity: Leverage secure break-glass access to view activities in your Okta orgs, providing faster insights and stronger oversight.
- Elevating your security posture: Transition from siloed to unified access controls across all subsidiary units. Reduce friction for central admin teams by enforcing zero standing privileges and maintaining full visibility into admin actions across every org.
- Accelerate strategic growth: Support rapid scaling and M&A activity by leveraging a centralized management structure that minimizes administrative overhead and complexity.
Getting started with Aerial
Aerial is now Generally Available for all Okta customers with Sandbox and/or Multi-Org SKUs. To activate the feature, contact our Sales Representative or Customer Success Manager to get started.
Looking to learn more about Okta Aerial?
- Visit Okta Docs to learn how Okta Aerial transforms multi-org management
- Check out Okta Developer Docs to explore technical details
This content is intended for general informational purposes only and is not intended to be legal, privacy, security, compliance, or business advice. © 2005 Okta, Inc. and its affiliates.
