Multi-Factor Authentication

Your end users already carry multiple devices. Why not put them to use? That’s the thought behind multi-factor authentication (MFA), a solution leveraging multiple devices and factors to provide extra security: texting an authentication code to a user’s smartphone, for instance. Here’s what Okta has to say about this innovative authentication method.

WebAuthn, the Road to Passwordless, and Other Considerations

Passwords. Most of us have a love-hate relationship with them. Security best practices and common sense tells us to pick unique, hard-to-guess passwords for every account, which makes management of them a pain, or leads to bad password habits like reusing them. Then there’s the inherent security of passwords, or rather, the insecurity of them. As…

A Data Breach Risk Assessment Checklist

When it comes to data security, there’s no such thing as too big to fail. Chances are, if you’ve switched on the news recently you’ve heard of at least one high-profile data breach. Perhaps of even greater concern is that a few large organizations have fallen victim to multiple data breaches in the past few years. This is a surefire sign that…

How Okta Integrates With Your Legacy Apps in 18 Different Ways

Okta integrates everything! That includes Hybrid IT scenarios with your legacy apps, your custom apps, your proprietary apps, as well as your infrastructure. Today, we’re releasing an eBook covering 18 standard-based integration patterns Okta supports to connect identities to your legacy apps and infrastructure. Interested? For more details to…

The Battle Between Build vs. Buy

Every development team must decide which components to build in-house and which to offload to a 3rd party vendor. This decision is often difficult and hotly debated. After all, most developers chose this career in order to build cool things! Choosing to relinquish that control to buy a solution can seem contrary to their raison d’etre. But…

Off the Beaten Path: How Okta Supports MFA on LDAP in the Cloud

Okta provides an LDAP interface in the cloud (great for hybrid IT and hybrid cloud deployments). The interface does not require an agent on-premises and supports Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) over LDAP—even though the LDAP protocol doesn't natively support MFA. In this blog post, I’ll explain why and how Okta does it. Okta LDAP interface:…

Okta at Microsoft Ignite 2018 — Sharepoint and Dynamics CRM

We spent last week at Microsoft Ignite 2018 in Orlando, and it was great to see where one of the largest software companies in the world is headed. But we’re even more excited about what we were there to share. Collaboration across teams—functionally and geographically, is a part of doing business that continually grows and will never go away…

The Evolution of Zero Trust: Next Gen Access

The Zero Trust security framework was first developed by John Kindervag in 2009 while he was at Forrester Research. Zero Trust challenged the traditional security model of a firewall forming a perimeter between a trusted internal network and an untrusted external one. This security approach breaks down if a threat actor is able to penetrate that…

On-Premises Apps and Remote Workers: How to Secure a Hybrid IT Environment

While many organizations are moving to the cloud, the reality is this: most use a hybrid environment, and many of their on-premises components aren’t going anywhere soon. Examples of such hybrid components include virtual private networks (VPNs) and/or virtual desktop infrastructures (VDIs), which enable remote access to company resources…

Okta + Yubico: Because Every User Is a Potential Target

The most critical security threats facing enterprises today are attacks targeted at user credentials. The average number of credential theft incidents has tripled over the past two years, and today, 81% of all hacking-related breaches leverage either stolen and/or weak passwords. Using passwords alone as a means of defense for organizations simply…

Multi-Factor Authentication on Custom Apps: The Top 17 SDKs and Tutorials from Okta

TL;DR: Building login and multi-factor authentication (MFA) for custom apps can be challenging, time-consuming, and risky. This post provides the top tutorials and SDKs that can be used to quickly leverage login and MFA provided by Okta. Your developers can streamline development and focus on building the best user experience, while you control…

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