LAS VEGAS — May 23, 2018 — Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA), the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise, today announced a new API offering. API Products for One App, makes it easy and affordable for engineering teams to use Okta to power modern authentication for any single website or application. Okta is also making API Products for One App – which includes Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) – available for free with “Identity by Okta” branding.
“Protecting identities is hard. Building a secure authentication, authorization and user management stack for your applications is even harder. The vast number of breaches and massive extent of data loss occurring today suggests that we need a simpler and more effective way to embed identity and authentication solutions,” said Okta CEO and co-founder, Todd McKinnon. “We believe that every organization in the world should have the best technology available to protect their identities, data and privacy. Now, with Okta API Products for One App, development teams don’t have to debate whether they should try to build authentication themselves – they can just use Okta.”
Identity for any app
The investment needed to build out secure identity infrastructure can be overwhelming for large enterprises focusing on a single digital experience, startups experiencing hyper growth and non-profits. Okta API Products are used today by hundreds of organizations as their enterprise-wide identity API for developers. Okta API Products for Developers, introduced last year, also made it easy for dev teams to use identity and access management on a small scale with Okta. Now, with the launch of Okta API Products for One App, any app develo