automation

Today’s companies face conflicting demands: the need to do more with less while balancing employee experience and robust security compliance. And the stakes are higher than ever. Our State of Digital Trust survey found that 47% of customers stop using an organization's services after a data breach. According to Adobe’s 2021 State of Work report,…

People create and exchange confidential, valuable information in SaaS tools daily, and admins are responsible for managing content from tens of teams and hundreds or thousands of users. That means IT teams need to support new, hybrid ways of working to maintain secure and efficient collaboration. To support this growing need, Okta and Miro…

Okta Workflows is a no-code platform for automating identity processes. The Workflows team holds weekly office hours where they answer builder questions. This blog post is based on a question asked during office hours: How can I use Okta Workflows to automatically send an email to a specific department when a new employee is onboarded to that…

For today’s businesses, digital transformation has become a core driver of success. And for IT administrators, there’s significant pressure to ensure that their organization is leveraging the right digital tools to deliver its own applications and services. As an Okta Solutions Engineer, I've worked with many customers on technology solutions, and…

We’ve said before that most organizations out there are only at a basic stage of CIAM maturity—and that’s still true. However, companies that invest in modern identity solutions, like Okta, are quickly graduating to the second stage of the CIAM Maturity Curve. We call this stage “Automated.” Why? Because in this phase, the organization has built…

In our previous posts for this 5-part series on lifecycle management, we offered various best practices you could implement to better manage identity data, lifecycle processes, and access grants. Today, we’ll review the identity-related challenges surrounding audits and compliance, and offer ten ways to gradually chip away at the complexities of…

CIOs have a complex role. First, they have to lead the charge in modernizing their organization. This means listening and reacting to the ongoing demands from employees, contractors, and customers, all of which have become accustomed to agile, cloud-based applications that they can access from various devices. Second, they are often tasked with…

  For our second edition of The Production Line, we’re going back to the future with Automations. Introduced in February of 2019, this Early Availability (EA) feature is currently the most popular EA selection since we added self-enablement options for super admins, so let’s dig in! What are Automations? The Automations feature impacts three areas…

As we prep our holiday shopping lists and pull out the festive sweaters, it’s almost time to look back on 2018. We want to use this season of reflection and cheer to showcase some of our many amazing customers. Our customers are the best gifts of all, so we’re celebrating with our annual 12 Days of Customers! JetBlue: The airline with a mission to…

At Okta, we know automation is essential for CXOs as data and services multiply across the enterprise. Today, we’re excited to join other security leaders as part of Splunk’s Adaptive Response Initiative. As part of the Initiative, we look forward to giving customers the ability to use more complete context to detect threats more quickly, which…