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One of Okta’s five core values is to “Never stop innovating,” whether that’s innovation in the products our customers love, the impact we have on our community, or anything in between. Okta has a culture of builders, and this is especially true of our Technology Organization. Our teams love being creative, exploring new technologies, and solving…

No one was ready for COVID-19—but some organizations were more prepared than others. Companies with cloud architecture are among those that have successfully weathered the storm, as it’s allowed them to be agile and respond to rapid changes in the macro environment. To give you some insight on how we’ve responded to these unique circumstances,…

In this edition of The Dogfooding Chronicles, we’re going to discuss both sides of the same security coin: 1. How your end-users can serve as the first line of defence against credential-based attacks, and 2. how your IT department can automate tactical defence actions by using Okta’s new Workflows automation and UserInsight tools. Frodo! I swore…

  In this edition of The Dogfooding Chronicles, we’re going to highlight an implementation we’re very excited about around here. Ever heard of WebAuthN? Read on to learn some tips and tricks we’ve learned in our WebAuthN enablement journey. Setting the stage – what is WebAuthN? Web Authentication API, aka WebAuthN, is one of the newest web…

  We humans have been categorically labeling things for hundred of thousands of years. Personally, I try not to assign labels to people. We are all unique, and there’s always more to people than meets the eye, right? (The only exception being… Green Bay Packers fans.) In the IT world we have lots of good reasons to use labels. But the more common…

In this episode of the Dogfooding Chronicles, we want to go into the basics, and navigate you through Okta IT’s own use cases at a high level, stepping you through our environment and processes. We want to orient you to understand why we make the technology choices that we do. Our hope? You find this information so helpful, you’ll use some of it…

Here at Okta, our goal and mantra is to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. “Dogfooding” our product (our definition below), is a key element in obtaining this goal, and the team that gets it done is the Okta on Okta team. In the coming months, The Dogfooding Chronicles will give you a glimpse inside Okta…

Star Trek fans: It’s time for your IT department to boldly go where no IT department has gone before.... For years, the head of IT played the role of Scotty, the long-suffering engineer aboard Captain Kirk’s starship Enterprise. The job was to keep the engines running while the folks on the bridge came up with the strategy. As today’s companies…