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Why 3 Companies Moved Away from Active Directory

With ever-growing networks of employees, contractors, and partners working remotely across devices, organizations are trading Microsoft Active Directory (AD) for Okta Universal Directory (UD). Why? Because UD can easily keep up with companies’ evolving directory and access management needs. Impossible? Read this infographic to see how AD was…

Cloud-First Agility to Securely Remote Enable Your Workforce

In my previous blog, I introduced the concept of why hybrid, cloud-first, identity solutions are fundamentally different from those with an on-premises-first focus, providing you with a huge competitive advantage. Over the next few blog posts, I’ll be digging deeper into these differences, and detailing the advantages you’ll get by adopting Okta’s…

Rethinking AD: The Four Stages of Separation, Part 2

In part one of The Four Stages of Separation from Active Directory (AD), we covered stages 1 - 3: 1. Where are you today? 2. Make sure you’re safe, and 3. Get everyone together. In part 2, we’ll cover Stages 4.1 and 4.2, and we’ll describe a few customers who started this journey and detail where they are today. Still wondering why you should…

Rethinking AD: The Four Stages of Separation, Part 1

In the first blog of this series, we explained why it’s time to break-up with Active Directory (AD). In the second, we listed the top five things you can look forward to after making the change. So now we’re breaking down the four stages of separation you’re going to experience as you reduce your dependency on, and potentially leave, Active…

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