Zero Trust — Drive Zero Trust Strategy through identity
Mitigate risk, improve operational efficiency, and reduce friction for your users.
Balance security with usability
It's clear: the more identities you manage, the greater your risk. You need an Identity-powered strategy that gives the right people access to the right resources at the right time—on any device.
A Zero Trust strategy pays off
of all organizations globally now have a defined Zero Trust security initiative in place
of respondents report an increase in their budgets for Zero Trust security initiatives from the previous year
of respondents said that Identity is important to their Zero Trust strategy
How Identity-powered is your security?
There’s no silver bullet when it comes to achieving a Zero Trust security architecture. There's no one-size-fits-all solution, but one constant is that identity is fundamental to success.
We've developed the Identity Maturity Model to help you understand where your organization is on the identity journey and what benefits you can see – including a more successful Zero Trust strategy.
Zero Trust isn't a feature, it's a strategy
Okta seamlessly integrates your identity solution across your entire technology ecosystem, and partners with other security leaders, to unify your approach to Zero Trust.
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FAQs
Yes, Okta Access Gateway extends Zero Trust principles to legacy on-premises applications. It allows organizations to add modern MFA and context-aware access policies to older systems, ensuring that your entire application portfolio—not just modern SaaS—is protected by a Zero Trust architecture.
Yes, Okta offers a Zero Trust Maturity Assessment to help organizations evaluate their current security state. This framework guides IT leaders through five key pillars—Identity, Device, Network, Payload, and Analytics—providing a roadmap for achieving a comprehensive and resilient security environment.
Starting a Zero Trust project with Okta typically begins with implementing Single Sign-On (SSO) and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) across all applications. From there, organizations progress to automated lifecycle management, device-based access policies, and continuous monitoring to fully mature their security posture.
Okta FastPass is a phishing-resistant, passwordless authenticator that fulfills the core Zero Trust requirement of high-assurance verification. By using device-bound cryptographic keys and biometric signals, FastPass ensures that the user is who they say they are and that their device is authorized and secure.
Okta's Zero Trust model is centered on the identity of the user and the health of the device. It assumes that the network is always hostile and requires every access request to be explicitly verified using strong authentication and real-time context before granting access to any corporate resource.