Multi-Factor Authentication

Your end users already carry multiple devices. Why not put them to use? That’s the thought behind multi-factor authentication (MFA), a solution leveraging multiple devices and factors to provide extra security: texting an authentication code to a user’s smartphone, for instance. Here’s what Okta has to say about this innovative authentication method.

The quest for Workforce Identity maturity

In literary terms, a quest is described as “an adventurous journey” taken on by a story’s main character. This journey often brings challenges, but by the end, the main character gains enhanced knowledge and experience. What does a literary device have to do with Identity? Implementing and growing your Identity practice is no different from a…

Businesses at Work 2024: Fundamentals in focus

For the first few years of this decade, organizations everywhere had to grapple with wave after wave of remarkable change. Sudden developments like lockdowns, the shift to remote work, supply chain disruptions, rampant inflation, and the rise of AI — just to name a few — forced companies to ditch the status quo and rapidly transform if they wanted…

Organizations moving forward

2023 was a big year for the Okta Customer Identity Cloud (CIC) Organizations product, which made its debut in April 2021. Adoption and product usage more than doubled. It led to a lot of learning and product investment. I’m excited to share our progress and what’s planned next. First, a quick recap on Organizations: Organizations provides the…

Measuring the business value of Identity at Guaranteed Rate and ADT

Grappling with the aftermath of a global pandemic and navigating the complexities of an austerity-driven economy, cybersecurity leaders find themselves at a crossroads. In the wake of macroeconomic uncertainties, these leaders are under increasing pressure to validate their investments to executive decision-makers. The challenge is twofold: How…

What the GenAI paradigm shift means for Identity

Generative AI is the biggest technology paradigm shift of our generation. As a technologist at heart, I couldn’t be more thrilled about its potential. Here’s how I’m thinking about identity’s role in the AI future, AI’s impact on the threat landscape, Okta’s AI capabilities, and what’s coming next for Okta and AI at Oktane. The role of Identity…

We’ve gone 100% passwordless for workforce apps

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…

How we went passwordless at Okta

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…

The real value of passwordless authentication

Earlier this year, Okta announced we’re going 100% passwordless, updating all of the apps and services our workforce uses to be consistent with phishing-resistant policies. Towards that goal, we're making great progress. Each week we analyze thousands of authentication events triggered by our workforce. And this past week, fewer than 2% of those…

Bootstrapping Okta FastPass enrollment in a phishing-resistant manner

Deploying phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication helps prevent unauthorized access to your company’s sensitive resources. But what if the process to enroll in that factor is not phishing-resistant? At Okta, we recognize the phishing resistance of a factor traces all the way back to enrollment, and that’s why we have now built into Okta…

How Identity-First Security Reduces the Impact and Effectiveness of Attacks

Part one of a multi-part series “Identity is the perimeter of security.” I was introduced to this phrase in 2012 after my manager returned from a conference. He scrawled that phrase at the top of the whiteboard in his office, and there it stayed until I eventually moved on from that organization in late 2013. Though I had already spent seven years…

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