passwordless authentication

What a difference a year makes. This time last year, we were finalizing a partnership that would make it easier for millions of organizations using Google Workspace to add an essential security layer — Identity —to their journey. Considering Identity security’s importance, it should be no surprise that our joint solution was a winner with…

There’s never been a better time to upgrade to Okta Identity Engine (OIE). The self-service upgrade process has matured and helps ensure your org's upgrade will be successful. In fact, most upgrades take only a few minutes to complete. Already on OIE? Skip ahead to No. 3  “Leverage OIE” to learn how you can strengthen your security posture. Why…

This recipe is part of the series Learn CIAM by example: Four recipes to improve your apps security and UX. You can learn more about the series by downloading our four recipes in a cookbook format. In this recipe, you learn how to add passwordless auth to your application using passkeys. Attack vectors are becoming more sophisticated every day,…

Security. It’s a hard business. I’m not just talking about the endless patching, monitoring, and training. The constant sprint to remediate when a new CVE (Common Vulnerability and Exposures) notification drops, or the lingering fears that you’ll be called back to the office on your downtime to deal with a crisis.  No, it’s hard because it’s not a…

For today’s SaaS companies, the pressure to rapidly innovate and seamlessly scale is intense.  Evolving macroeconomic pressures mean SaaS companies need to do more with less. And every B2C innovation amps SaaS customer expectations. AI has further transformed the competitive landscape, presenting both an opportunity for product differentiation and…

At Okta, we’re always looking for ways to strengthen our overall security posture. We’re also constantly striving to improve the experience for our total workforce of 7,000+ users. With those two goals in mind, I’m incredibly proud to announce that we’ve reached a major milestone: Every app and resource in our internal Okta tenant now uses…

Today, Okta’s CIO Alvina Antar announced that Okta has gone 100% passwordless for workforce apps. Every Okta resource in our tenant now uses passwordless, phishing-resistant authentication policies, representing a major elevation of our user experience and security posture.  We officially reached this milestone on August 30th, when Okta on Okta…

Ten years ago, security experts declared the first Thursday in May a new holiday. World Password Day was meant to serve as a helpful annual reminder for people to change their passwords. It was also a tacit admission of one of passwords’ fundamental flaws: To remain effective, they must frequently be changed. In the decade since, the login…

Okta, the World’s Identity Company, is calling on every company that makes or uses software to start their own passwordless journey today and reduce their reliance on passwords for new applications by the end of 2025. Passwords are a headache for consumers and businesses and are often one of the weakest links in an organization's cybersecurity…

This blog post is the second in a series focusing on credential phishing. Previously, in the blog The Need for Phishing-Resistant Multi-Factor Authentication, Mukul Hinge explained how threat actors are becoming more sophisticated, using various tools to overcome mitigations. Today’s post digs into the inner workings of Okta FastPass, explaining…