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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.
By Identity Type
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
Simplify identity management with Universal Directory
Centralize your user, group, and device management in a single control panel, so you can adopt any technology at scale.
Up to 5x
faster IT integration of acquired businesses*
0
help desk calls for AD password resets*
$50K
average customer savings by eliminating on-premises LDAP or ADFS maintenance*
Centralize your identity management
Integrate across your technology stack for unified user management to control all your identities in one place and keep your security policies consistent.
Create a source of truth for identity
Manage all your identities in a universal cloud directory, keep them in sync across identity sources, and enable holistic governance across users—simplifying your workforce management. However your organization is structured, we’ve got you covered.
Accelerate your technology adoption
Modernize your identity approach and allow your admins to focus on adopting the technology your enterprise needs, all while reducing your dependency on on-premises infrastructure like AD and LDAP.
“We chose Okta predominantly because of its flexibility, agility, and risk management. The other reason was because the Okta leadership team shares our ethos in terms of always striving to be better. A high level of trust was always there with Okta.”
Steve Williams
Enterprise Chief Information Security Officer
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“Okta’s Universal Directory was really the key for me. Taking the traditional Microsoft AD environment, moving it to the cloud, and then managing down — it’s just a great idea.”
Willie Clemons
Director of Identity and Access Management, EBSCO
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“Okta makes it easier for us to roll out capabilities consistently to all our business units, so that we can get brands working together globally wherever we need them to.”
Dominic Shine
Chief Information Officer, News Corp
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Manage the user lifecycle
Streamline onboarding, role changes, and offboarding by automating app provisioning.
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Deploy auth that protects your users, apps, APIs, and infrastructure.
Featured integrations
Discover thousands of pre-built integrations that make it easier and faster to address your top business challenges.
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Learn more about managing your user profiles—including profile type, attribute mappings, expressions, and more.
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A UNIFIED CONTROL PLANE
Okta secures AI
Securing AI starts by answering three questions every CTO and CISO is asking: Where are my agents? What can they connect to? And what can they do?
FAQs
Yes, Okta Universal Directory can ingest data from multiple HR platforms simultaneously, such as Workday, BambooHR, and SuccessFactors. This allows organizations with complex global structures or those undergoing M&A to maintain a unified identity profile for every employee, regardless of which HR system is used locally, ensuring consistent security and access across the enterprise.
Yes, Okta provides an LDAP Interface that allows legacy on-premises applications to authenticate directly against Universal Directory using the LDAP protocol. This enables organizations to move away from maintaining physical LDAP servers while still supporting older applications that require traditional directory services, facilitating a full migration to the cloud-native identity model.
Okta Universal Directory is highly flexible and supports numerous custom user attributes. Whether you need to track shirt sizes, certifications, or specific billing codes, UD can store and synchronize this data across all connected SaaS applications. These attributes can also be used to trigger automated Okta Workflows for sophisticated identity management logic.
Okta Universal Directory is built on a highly secure, encrypted infrastructure that meets SOC2 Type II, ISO 27001, and HIPAA standards. Admins can enforce fine-grained access controls and attribute-level permissions, ensuring that sensitive user data is only visible to authorized personnel, protecting privacy and maintaining compliance with global data protection regulations.
Okta Universal Directory (UD) is a scalable, cloud-based meta-directory that serves as a single source of truth for all user, group, and device identities. It allows IT teams to store custom attributes and consolidate multiple identity sources, such as Active Directory, LDAP, and HR systems, into one centralized management console for simplified administration.
*Savings are estimates based on customer reporting. Savings may vary and are not guaranteed.