Zero Trust

As we continue deeper into 2022, facing many of the challenges we saw in 2021 (see Reflections on Security: Looking Back at 2021), optimism may seem difficult. How do we know the next evolution of identity and security practices will be enough? And this time of year always sees a flurry of predictions on what trends will emerge and what should be…

Prior to the Zero Trust era Over the last decade, we’ve experienced three megatrends in action: mobile, cloud, and software-as-a-service (SaaS). These megatrends have redefined how we work, conduct business, and consume information. According to Gartner, global end-user spending on public cloud services is expected to exceed $480 billion in 2022…

At Okta, our customers are our pride, our purpose, and our priority. When they succeed, we succeed, and when they grow, so do we. We have gained our status as the world’s leading independent identity provider by working with a global community of brilliant customers to deploy more complex identity scenarios than anyone else—and we’re learning more…

October is Cyber Security Awareness Month, and the past few weeks have accelerated this awareness into mainstream consciousness. Facebook experienced an outage, Twitch suffered a major data breach, and Syniverse quietly revealed a 5-year data breach. It has become starkly evident that organizations need to invest in cyber security solutions, but…

Earlier this year I wrote that, in 2021, government security leaders need to adopt a true Zero Trust framework—an approach that ensures the right people have the right level of access, to the right resources, in the right context. And that access must be assessed continuously—all without adding friction for the user. Meanwhile, it should add as…

How important is it to implement Zero Trust? We asked over 600 business and security leaders across North America, Asia Pacific (APAC), Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)—and the overwhelming consensus is that it has become crucial. With the unprecedented shift to remote work, the adoption of new digital products and services, and the…

Never trust, always verify: it’s the Zero Trust principle that’s become intrinsic to how organizations build security. And modern identity sits at the heart of Zero Trust, making it easier and more efficient to assess, monitor, and grant access appropriately. Many companies are still beginning their Zero Trust journey, but T-Mobile is not your…

Every company that operates production software has compliance requirements. The vast majority of those organizations also carry significant infrastructure in the cloud and/or on-premises. And they all require a safe way to provide access to their developer workforce. Traditionally, there were two ways to achieve this: building a DIY system to…

Introducing Okta + NetMotion: Future-proof and Secure Remote Access for a Post-COVID World We’ve entered into a new era of identity. As organizations have had to become increasingly flexible in supporting distributed, remote teams, they’ve also had to put an increased focus on security. With workforces worldwide becoming more mobile and dynamic—a…

First of all, this is not a list of 2021 predictions for security leaders serving in government agencies. I don’t think there’s much to predict in the way of envisioning how attackers are looking to compromise federal security systems and data. That is to say, we don’t have to envision anything, we can simply observe what happened in 2020 to know…