security

Fine Grained Authorization: A flexible solution for all

Authorization is evolving. Users demand more nuanced access controls and privacy, while security and compliance teams need precise permission management. Enter a new approach: Okta Fine Grained Authorization. Now, you can manage your teams’ need for precise permissions while maintaining independence from any Identity provider (IdP), including but…

How Okta fosters a security culture

Jen Waugh joined Okta in May 2024 as Senior Director, Security Culture. One of Jen’s primary responsibilities is to apply her wealth of experience — spanning cybersecurity, governance, compliance, and leadership — to create and foster a security culture as a driving force behind Okta’s continued maturation as a security company. Recognizing that…

Evolving Okta’s edge infrastructure

Okta is constantly evolving our cloud infrastructure to meet the needs of our customers. We place reliability and scalability at the core of our design decisions for services that process billions of authentications per month. This article dives into how a recent project to remove one of our most heavily trafficked services yielded significant…

Okta FastPass: Phishing-resistant MFA

Security practitioners worldwide face the same challenge: provide robust security and enhanced user experience. In a landscape of continued change and evolution, knowing all of our options becomes difficult. The seemingly elusive solution is to provide our end users with a seamless experience while requiring them to perform powerful, phishing…

Automated defense against Identity-based attacks

Identity is foundational to modern security strategy. Identity-based attacks are on the rise, and most data breaches are caused by stolen credentials. With more than 18,000 customers and an Identity platform that performs billions of authentications every month, Okta is at the frontline of most of these Identity-based attacks. In the past month…

AI at Work 2024: A view from the C-suite

For business leaders today, there’s no hotter topic than artificial intelligence (AI). Executives everywhere are asking themselves — and each other — how AI will transform the products they offer, the ways they work, and the threats they face. Our new analysis, AI at Work 2024: C-suite perspectives on artificial intelligence, paints a picture of…

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