NCC Group, a people-powered, tech-enabled global cyber resilience business, has partnered with Okta to provide enhanced customer identity and access management (CIAM). The partnership pairs NCC Group’s global expertise in cybersecurity services with Okta’s industry-leading solutions in CIAM, enterprise IAM, and adaptive multi-factor authentication.
The combination provides comprehensive end-to-end IAM services that enhance security and reduce risk through threat intelligence insights, continuous proactive monitoring and protection, and adherence with compliance and regulation.
NCC is committed to delivering leading CIAM services through advisory, implementation, and managed services. These include:
CIAM capabilities that expand NCC Group's portfolio of IAM services, with a focus on providing end-to-end customer identity services
CIAM solutions delivered through a combination of Okta's platform and NCC Group's professional and managed services, enhanced by NCC Group’s Identity Insights solution and online exposure monitoring capabilities
CIAM services to secure the supply chain ecosystem that feature attack path mapping capabilities to simplify and secure backend integrations and interactions, including effective risk mitigation, compliance management and governance, and enhanced user experience
Enhanced customer identity risk mitigation
NCC Group’s CIAM expertise can identify and mitigate common attack vectors used by malicious actors such as brute-force attacks, credential stuffing, and session hijacking. Securing customer identity reduces the impact of automated attacks by detecting and blocking malicious traffic from bots. Identity proofing and verification help ensure those accessing your systems are who they say they are, enhancing security and reducing risk. Together with Okta, the partnership adds greater protection for both customer and business data, such as financial information, while defending against supply chain vulnerabilities.
Securing internal systems that support customer applications and data
In addition to providing CIAM services, NCC supports the ability to secure the platform and services that host customer-related services and data. This is supported by the ability to assess both on-premise and cloud environments, leveraging Okta’s identity security posture management (ISPM) to generate key cloud insights. NCC Group’s identity security insights solution highlights the on-premise risks and process failures across both human and non-human accounts.
Leveraging Okta's ISPM capabilities, NCC Group can rapidly identify, remediate, and manage identity risks. This supports NCC Group’s data-driven approach to addressing the unique digital identity risks specific to each client, with a focus on controlling identity sprawl.
Derek Gordon, Digital Identity Practice Lead, commented:
“Since launching our Digital Identity security service in September 2024, we have focused significant efforts on ensuring our leading CIAM services leverage our full portfolio of capabilities.
By combining our online exposure monitoring capabilities and visibility of credentials exposed on the deep and dark web with Okta’s technology, we can deliver CIAM solutions that offer a greater depth of insight to mitigate the attack vectors being used by malicious actors today.
Offering clients the convenience of CIAM as a service through our established and mature Global Managed Services enables clients to focus on their core business operations with assurance that their CIAM needs are securely managed.
Partnering with Okta provides us with exceptional customer identity and access management solutions. Together with our people-powered cyber resilience experience, we are creating a class- defining offering in customer identity management.”
Jorgen Espelund, interim EMEA Partner Lead at Okta, comments:
“Identity is the foundation of trust in digital business. We believe that there's a massive opportunity for partners to help customers leverage identity to innovate, mitigate the growing threat landscape, and most importantly, protect their customer data.
The partnership with NCC Group reinforces our commitment to being partner first. It will allow businesses across Europe to really embrace the power of identity and utilise solutions such as CIAM, enterprise IAM, and adaptive MFA to create a robust security suite. We’re only just getting started and excited for a future with NCC and partners at the core of our business.”
About NCC Group
NCC Group is a people-powered, tech-enabled global cyber resilience and software escrow business.
Driven by a collective purpose to create a more secure digital future, over 2,000 colleagues across Europe, North America, and Asia Pacific harness their collective insight, intelligence, and innovation to deliver cyber resilience to clients across the public and private sector.
With decades of experience and a rich heritage, NCC Group is committed to developing sustainable solutions that continue to meet clients’ current and future cybersecurity challenges.
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About Okta
Okta, Inc. is The World’s Identity Company™. We secure Identity, so everyone is free to safely use any technology. Our customer and workforce solutions empower businesses and developers to use the power of Identity to drive security, efficiencies, and success — all while protecting their users, employees, and partners. Learn why the world’s leading brands trust Okta for authentication, authorization, and more at okta.com.
