digital identity

In today’s digital age, when Identity lies at the core of every online interaction, the need for secure, scalable Identity management solutions has never been more pronounced. Enter The Identity 25, an initiative unveiled by Okta Ventures, the venture investment arm of Okta, a premier provider of Identity and Access Management solutions. This…

What’s top of mind for today’s most successful product leaders? Creating a great customer experience, of course. But also, meeting business objectives. And staying ahead of the competition. And keeping user data secure. And complying with ever-changing regulatory requirements. And — well, the list goes on and on. With so many priorities to juggle,…

What a difference four years makes.  Since launching our first State of Zero Trust report in 2019, we’ve been saying that the framework represents the future of security. This year, Zero Trust adoption reached a tipping point.  In 2019, many organizations that we surveyed acknowledged that Zero Trust was important, but just 16% had invested in…

In 2019, Iberian cybersecurity specialist SIA had no involvement with Okta. Fast forward two years and SIA is not only Okta’s only Premier Partner in Iberia, it’s also our largest pipeline generator in the region.  During this time, SIA also acquired the German cybersecurity firm MSS and has been increasingly targeting the customer base of its…

Amidst COVID-19, higher education institutions must constantly be attentive to the latest solutions and defenses in cybersecurity. To protect and accommodate the needs of their students, staff, and larger campus ecosystem, Identity and access management must be amongst their highest priorities. In today’s market, digital transformation—improvement…

Every year, vendors, solution providers, and practitioners are asked to absorb and utilize new technology, requirements, regulations—and new problem statements. And while this constant change attracts many of us, it can be daunting to find a consistent thread that pulls it all together. At Okta, we believe one of those threads is an identity…

Education is a collaborative industry by nature. Whether it’s students discussing ideas, or staff and faculty coming together to create quality environments for teaching and learning, connecting with others makes for richer experiences. But in order to keep providing modern and accessible services to everyone, higher education must overcome some…

Whether you’re building a new app or migrating a legacy app to the cloud, you face a choice: build everything in-house or selectively use out-of-the-box services to make the job easier and faster. Out-of-the-box services like Twilio, for messaging, and Braintree, for payments, have gained popularity because they help lean dev teams remain agile…

Every person who uses the Internet has a unique digital identity, consisting of individual data points, such as their username and passwords, what movies they stream, what articles they tweet, and more. Laws like the GDPR and CCPA attempt to give people some control over their data, but it can still be challenging to understand what our digital…

As more companies move to support cloud-based environments to work with better mobility and flexibility, their number of vulnerability points also increase. A thriving underground economy that trades in hacking tools, cyber crime services, stolen data, and credentials is estimated to be worth $600 billion annually—that’s more than the film, gaming…