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Products
Our platforms secure all types of identity from AI agents to your customers, employees, and partners.
Agentic AI Security
Identity & Access Management
Privileged Access Management
Identity Threat Detection & Response
Customer Identity & Access Management
Identity Governance & Administration
Integrations
Solutions
Okta is the neutral, powerful, and extensible platform that puts identity at the heart of your stack.
Customer Success Stories
Developers
Okta and Auth0 deliver flexible, secure access. Build fast with our extensible platforms for customers, workforce, and non-human identities.
Company
Our platforms secure all types of identity from AI agents to your customers, employees, and partners.
About Okta
Careers & community
Values & Impact
Power up a new class of secure device access
Extend security to the first login. Our unified access management provides a more secure, passwordless path to apps and resources from power up.
Unify device identity, from endpoint to cloud
Managing device identities separately can create security gaps and disjointed user experiences. Okta closes this gap with unified access management, creating a more secure foundation for your Zero Trust strategy.
Secure workforce devices
Enable consistent access controls at scale, across your Windows and macOS devices.
Harden SSO sessions
Establish a hardware-protected Single Sign-On (SSO) session at device login to create a more secure path to every app.
Power greater productivity
Reduce friction by enabling passwordless login and minimizing authentication prompts.
Secure every login. Wherever work happens.
Enforce MFA for device access
Stronger authentication at device login
Bring MFA and passwordless login to your employees’ first vulnerable touchpoint. Support a secure recovery process for locked-out users.
Compliance with security requirements
Support MFA compliance requirements and cyber insurance standards with the help of Desktop MFA.
Risk-based policy-driven security
Force risky users to reauthenticate into their corporate devices by triggering Device Logout.
Anchor SSO to the hardware
Bind sessions to the endpoint
Establish a foundation of trust that begins with the physical device itself, enabling you to better secure the earliest point of access.
Prevent replay attacks
Render stolen cookies useless with hardware-bound sessions that stop unauthorized replay.
Balance productivity and security
Boost user productivity by safely reducing authentication prompts on trusted hardware.
Simplify macOS onboarding & access
Consolidate user credentials
Unify the login experience by syncing macOS and Okta passwords into a single credential.
Accelerated access with Okta FastPass
Auto-enroll users into FastPass for phishing-resistant, passwordless authentication to their apps.
Simplified device account setup
Instantly provision local Mac accounts for users with their existing Okta credentials.
“Whenever a user interacts with our systems, be it SaaS or on-prem hosted applications, they are greeted with an Okta login screen. Why wouldn't you bring that to your device sign-in screen? It just makes sense. It provides a single pane of glass and a single friendly user experience. It also allows us to have one less credential that users need to know, while simplifying IT support flows.”
Richard Pilkington
Engineering Manager - Identity, Booking.com
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Layer your identity defenses
Adaptive MFA
Secure your apps more effectively with robust contextual policies and a set of modern authenticators.
Single Sign-On
Give your people access to enterprise apps with a single set of credentials.
Identity Threat Protection with Okta AI
Continuously safeguard against identity-based risks through real-time re-evaluation and remediation of threats.
Frequently asked questions
Device access management is an identity security strategy that controls who can log in to company-managed devices like laptops and desktops. It extends identity-based controls, such as multi-factor authentication (MFA), to the device itself to help ensure that only authorized and trusted users can gain access, creating a more secure starting point for a Zero Trust architecture.
Desktop MFA improves security by requiring a second form of verification before a user can log in to their computer. This prevents unauthorized access even if a user’s password is stolen. By using phishing-resistant factors like biometrics or hardware keys, it helps ensure that the person logging in is who they say they are.
Device login is the initial authentication a user performs to access their physical computer (e.g., macOS or Windows). Application SSO (Single Sign-On) occurs after the device is unlocked and allows a user to access multiple applications without re-entering their credentials for each one. Solutions like Okta Device Access link the two, using a highly secure device login to automatically establish a trusted SSO session for all apps.
Okta Device Access is a foundational component of a Zero Trust security strategy. By enforcing strong authentication at the device login, it helps ensure that no user or device is trusted by default. It establishes a trusted device posture before granting access to sensitive applications and data, effectively extending the security perimeter from the cloud all the way to the endpoint.
Yes, Okta Device Access simplifies password management for macOS users with Desktop Password Sync. This feature synchronizes the user’s local macOS password with their Okta password, allowing them to remember just one credential for both device and application access. This reduces password fatigue and streamlines the login experience.