identity management

Your car’s dashboard is fully equipped with the tools you need to drive safely, under the speed limit, with enough oil and in the right direction (hopefully you don’t need help with that, though). The folks at Edmunds.com know a thing or two about these dashboards, as they provide prices for new and used vehicles of every type and stripe. But when…

For more than 100 years, National Gypsum has built its brand around dependability and security -- they don’t call one of their best-selling products Gold Bond for nothing. But with the advent of cloud computing, the Charlotte-based company also needed to manage their applications safely and securely. We sat down with Michael Brannon, National…

Maybe you attended Oktane13 last year. Maybe your IT department recently adopted Okta and you want to learn more about identity management. Or maybe you heard about last year's customer appreciation party. Whatever the reason, you’re interested in attending Okta’s second annual user conference, Oktane14, and we don’t blame you. Much like this…

As Whitehall Media rightly pointed out recently at its Identity Management conference, the ever-changing digital landscape we face today brings about an increasing amount of threats. And there’s little room for complacency in securing entry points and data assents – both in large enterprises and government. That’s why on a global scale, the IAM…

“When it comes to Office 365, the vision is pretty straightforward. It is to make sure that the 1 billion Office users and growing can have access to the high-fidelity Office experience on every device they love to use." - Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft From the top down, Microsoft has made it clear that Office 365 is core to their strategy. At…

The expansion pack: a highly anticipated boost to your favorite game. You thought things couldn’t be better until you added the Seafarers Extension to your “Settlers of Catan,” allowing you to have more players and a bigger, more complex board – or the add-on to your favorite Xbox game, offering a new world to explore through an easy download…

Mark your calendars. Oktane14, Okta’s second annual user conference, is coming -- and registration and our Call for Speakers is now open. The event will take place Monday, November 10 - Wednesday, November 12 at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco and will feature speakers from Okta’s extensive product, partner and customer Enterprise Identity…

For those of you who have been in enterprise IT – either as a buyer or a vendor – you know that Gartner’s Magic Quadrant isn’t just another vendor evaluation matrix. When it comes to analyst organizations with deep market insight and significant influence, Gartner is always at the top of the heap. In the past, Gartner’s identity management…

Last summer, we announced an integration with Microsoft SharePoint that enables companies to easily give customers and partners secure access to a mix of on-premises and cloud apps through a SharePoint-powered external portal. But as customers started taking advantage of this integration, we encountered a second challenge – giving access to…

Are you worried about security and control in a cloud environment? If so, you’re not alone. We recently launched a new research report in the UK on identity management in a cloud and mobile world, finding there’s an urgent need amongst IT decision makers to gain visibility and control over their IT environment. Cloud computing has caused the…