New in Okta Workflows: 30-day Trial, Cancel Flow, monday.com and SFTP Connectors, and New Templates

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Max Katz

Staff Developer Advocate, Okta Workflows

Max Katz is a Staff Developer Advocate for Okta Workflows. Max loves the no-code automation space and creating educational content. Before Okta, Max led the North America Developer Advocacy team at IBM. Before IBM, Max led developer advocacy for a cloud-based mobile app platform, Appery, helping it grow from zero to over 400,000 developers. Max regularly writes on his http://maxkatz.net blog. 

13 September 2023 Time to read: ~

The Okta Workflows released several new capabilities to help you build identity automation.

In this blog post: 

  • 30-day Trial
  • Cancelling a flow
  • New connectors
  • New templates
  • Workflows resources

30-day Trial

Workflows is now included in the WIC (Workforce Identity Cloud) 30-day Free Trial

workflows wic trial

Workforce Identity Cloud sign-up page

Learn more about the Okta Workforce Identity Cloud Free Trial.

Cancelling a flow

Cancelling flow execution

Cancelling flow execution

You can now cancel a flow execution.

Having the ability to cancel a flow execution can be highly valuable in the following scenarios:

  • Hanging executions caused by infinite loops or recursion.
  • Errors found in large, complex flows, or in flows that process large amounts of data. For example, if the flow contains a logic error found on step 8 of a 40-step flow.
  • Stopping flow executions that you accidentally started.
  • Flow executions stuck in progress because they don’t have the correct information.
  • Developing and testing large flows. Rather than using logical conditions to act as breakpoints, you can cancel the execution after you validate your test. For example, if you want to verify that a streaming action card works as expected but don’t want to stream an entire set of records.

Before this was available, you had to contact Support to cancel a flow.

Read more about canceling a flow.

New connectors

The Workflows team added two new connectors:

  • monday.com connector
  • SFTP connector

monday.com connector

monday.com is a project management software.

The Workflows monday.com connector enables handling user provisioning and board management for your monday.com lifecycle management tasks.

The monday.com connector has the following actions:

ActionDescription
Add User to BoardAdd a user as an owner or subscriber to a board in monday.com.
Archive BoardArchive a board in monday.com.
Create BoardCreate a board inside a workspace in monday.com.
Custom API ActionMake a custom, authenticated HTTP call to the monday.com API.
Delete BoardDelete a board in monday.com.
Delete User from BoardRemove a user from a board in monday.com.
List BoardsList all boards from a selected workspace in monday.com.
Read BoardRetrieve the information for a board in monday.com using the board ID.
Read UserRead user information from monday.com using their ID or email address.
Search UsersSearch for users in monday.com with a fuzzy search or by a specific user type.

 

SFTP connector

The Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) connector enables secure uploading and downloading of files between the Okta Workflows and an SFTP server.

The SFTP connector has the following actions:

ActionDescription
Download FileDownload a file from an SFTP destination to the Okta Workflows file system.
Upload FileUpload a file from the Okta Workflows file system to an SFTP destination.
Write FileWrite a text file to an SFTP server.

 

New templates

The Workflows team published the following new templates:

TemplateDescription
Invalidate anomalous Slack sessionsThis workflow is designed for security operations teams to invalidate Slack sessions and notify admins when Slack detects anomalies associated with session hijacking.
Use Okta Workflows for Pendo Metadata SyncThis workflow pushes user profile data from Okta into Pendo.
Sync Okta Group Membership with Office 365 Unified GroupsSync Okta group membership with Office 365 Unified Groups using custom profile attributes and Okta Workflows.
Encourage Stronger MFA AdoptionThis template encourages Okta end users to enroll a stronger factor with their account by monitoring the use of SMS as a factor and SMS factor enrollment.
Activate and deactivate accounts with notifications in Microsoft TeamsThis template demonstrates how Okta Workflows can automatically activate and deactivate an Okta user account based on a start or end date stored in the Okta user’s profile.
Implementing XaaS with PersonioThis template demonstrates implementing an Anything-as-a-Source (XaaS) model to import records from Personio.
Implementing XaaS with SmartHRThis template demonstrates implementing an Anything-as-a-Source (XaaS) model to import records from SmartHR.
Subscribe to Microsoft alerts and notify admins of potential security issuesYou can use a Microsoft alert subscription to manage your security surface across API endpoints, email, collaboration spaces, cloud apps, and user identities.
Detect and respond to MFA Fatigue attacksMultifactor authentication (MFA) fatigue is a technique used by attackers to flood a user’s authentication app with push notifications. If they accept a push notification, the attacker gains entry to an account or device. These templates provide a means to detect and respond to active attacks against your Okta org.

If you missed it, read our last New in Workflows: Organize Your Flows in Folders and Subfolders.

Workflows resources

📺 Learn from Workflows videos.

🍫 Get help from Workflows specialists during weekly community office hours.

🛟 Get help from support: discuss a Workflows topic or ask a question.

🙋🏻‍♀️ Get help from the community: join the #okta-workflows channel on MacAdmins Slack.

About the Author

Max Katz

Staff Developer Advocate, Okta Workflows

Max Katz is a Staff Developer Advocate for Okta Workflows. Max loves the no-code automation space and creating educational content. Before Okta, Max led the North America Developer Advocacy team at IBM. Before IBM, Max led developer advocacy for a cloud-based mobile app platform, Appery, helping it grow from zero to over 400,000 developers. Max regularly writes on his http://maxkatz.net blog. 

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