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Put your trust in Zero-Trust API access

Secure and manage your API access with a reliable Identity and policy layer.

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Reduces hours of XML-based policy design and enforcement to minutes via API or Admin Dashboard

1 day
to onboard and integrate APIs, reduced from over a week
Hours, not weeks
to integrate partners for API integrations
Minutes, not hours
of XML-based policy design and enforcement via API or Admin Dashboard

Effective, user-friendly API Access Management

Learn how to properly and reliably provide and manage access to APIs for employees, partners, and customers in a rapidly evolving API environment.

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Extend authentication and authorization policies

Securing applications is the first step; a true Zero Trust architecture extends security to APIs as well.

Protection against API breaches

API security breaches have hit organizations across all industries. Even if your APIs are behind mobile apps or read only, don’t let a lack of API protection make you the next victim.

Modern API security

Implement API security best practices and modern Identity frameworks like OAuth with ease. Create API authorization policies based on application, user context, and group membership to make sure only the right people get access.

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View, manage, and secure from a single control panel

Instead of spreading policies between your APIs, gateways, and applications, manage them from a single point.

Security and DevOps, on the same page

Unite your security and development teams around a centralized place for all your API authorization policies. Think SSO for APIs.

Simplified authorization policies

Help your security team by streamlining policy creation, maintenance, and auditing capabilities. As policies change, adjustments are made centrally, and downstream applications are easily updated.

More time for development

Your development team will thank you, too. They can hand off 100% of user management and authorization policy, and focus on making great apps instead.

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Simplify OAuth 2.0 complexity

Implementing OAuth can be complex, and getting it wrong can compromise your apps and API.

OAuth-as-a-service

Simplify API security implementation for your developers. Easily add API security for user-driven and machine-to-machine use cases, and get extensive documentation and guidance that will help you get started.

Compliance assistance

Okta implements the core OAuth 2.0 specification, is a certified OpenID Connect provider, and includes over a dozen key extensions to make using OAuth easier and applicable to more use cases.

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API security from concepts to components

Learn about the modern API security landscape and how to effectively leverage OAuth 2.0 and API gateways.

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Okta API Access Management

APIs are the backbone of modern app development. Learn how developers can leverage existing data and functionality to move faster.

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Featured integrations

Discover thousands of pre-built integrations that make it easier and faster to address your top business challenges.

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Training course

Learn how to apply internet-grade security standards to secure your resource APIs.

Okta Developer

Learn the basics of  API Access Management, Okta’s implementation of the OAuth 2.0 standard.

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Why Okta

The World’s Identity Company™

Okta’s solutions are extensive, secure, easy-to-use, reliable, and work with your existing technology. So no matter your stack, we’ve got your back. More than 19,000 customers rely on our 7,000+ pre-built integrations, extensibility, and flexibility.

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