Las Vegas — Aug. 30, 2016 — Today at Oktane16 in Las Vegas, Okta, the leading provider of identity for the enterprise, launched a new product to secure APIs for businesses that are building products, sharing data with partners, and enabling third-party developer ecosystems. Okta’s new API Access Management product solves modern challenges for both developers and IT. Every API developer must define which apps, devices and people can connect to an API, and how. Additionally, IT leaders must enable developer productivity across disparate teams while implementing consistent security controls over sensitive systems of record. While OAuth 2.0 has become the modern standard for API authorization, organizations still working with traditional solutions face significant challenges, including the costs of operating, scaling and securing on-prem software, and the complexity of maintaining fragmented custom-coded policies. With this new capability fully integrated to the Okta Identity Cloud, IT leaders and developers can now, for the first time, centrally maintain one identity and one set of permissions for any employee, customer or partner, across every point of access: app, API or device.
Businesses are building APIs to reduce the time to market for new applications and services by enabling the reuse of existing systems of record. To achieve the full agility that these APIs create, developers need a method for securing access that is equally nimble. Okta