Secure APIs

Easily centralize authorization with Okta API Access Management

APIs are the very foundation of modern applications. Okta makes it simple to create, apply, and adapt authorization policies to protect your APIs.

We helped Pitney Bowes launch its Commerce Cloud, bringing physical and digital capabilities together to solve the problems businesses face in an increasingly complex and risky world.

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Dignity Health used Okta to deliver a completely new digital strategy to create positive consumer, patient, and provider digital experiences in less than 10 months.

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Okta API Access Management implements OAuth 2.0 and multiple extensions

Using standards gives you an ecosystem of tooling, libraries, training, and best practices to create solutions applicable to your architectures, applications, and use cases. Okta not only implements the standards, we take an active role in helping develop them to fit your real-world problems and scenarios.

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Context-aware authorization policies

Our API authorization policies employ grant types, user-group membership, and external data sources.

Role-based access control

We allow your teams to establish, maintain, and audit authorization policies based on group membership and user context—without writing any code.

Separate use cases

Use OAuth Client specific authorization policies to grant or limit access for applications acting on behalf of those users.

Extend with embedded data

Integrate with your internal systems to retrieve dynamic data or additional entitlements for downstream applications.

Integrate with API management platforms

Use the right tools for the job. Okta lets you embed your authorization policies into existing infrastructure in just minutes.

Create an effective API Strategy

Integrate with API management platforms

Use the right tools for the job. Okta lets you embed your authorization policies into existing infrastructure in just minutes.

Create an effective API Strategy

Many platforms, one system

We allow dev teams to use the API gateways and tools specific to their architectures and use cases while keeping authorization policies central and auditable by security teams.

Transparent provisioning

Okta Universal Directory gives you a single, real-time view of the developers, partners, and customers entering and leaving your ecosystem, ensuring only the correct people and systems have access to your APIs.