SAN FRANCISCO — October 10, 2019 — Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA), the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise, today at Okta Showcase announced Okta SecurityInsights, a family of product innovations that provides global organizations with personalized security detection and remediation capabilities at the end user, administrator, and customer network level. Okta is introducing two features of SecurityInsights: UserInsight, suspicious activity reporting for end users, and HealthInsight, customized, dynamic security best practice recommendations for administrators. These end user and administrator functionalities build on Okta’s investments in ThreatInsight, network effect-driven protection that prevents threat actors from compromising user accounts by identifying and blocking malicious IPs pre-authentication. Collectively, SecurityInsights enables large enterprises to take meaningful action across their organizations to improve security.
Global enterprises have built rapidly-evolving, expansive workforces that continuously adopt new technology and engage with new markets. As a result, tens of thousands of employees, contractors, and partners are interacting with and accessing sensitive information. Aside from the efficiency hurdles, a distributed and disparate workforce presents an increasingly difficult security challenge, especially in the face of growing attacks and breaches where everyone from the rank and file to the executive suite could become attack targets. In a global threat landscape in which 80 percent of attacks involve comprom