Secure APIs
Our API Access Management lets you easily centralize authorization.
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.
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.
Allergan is using Okta to streamline access and communication across multiple business entities, while keeping tight control over who has access to sensitive information.
Use standards to speed adoption
OAuth 2.0 + extensions
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.
Build flexible authorization policies
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.
Use the right tools for the job
Integrate with API Management Platforms
Okta lets you embed your authorization policies into existing infrastructure in just minutes.
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.
Let developers build
Centralized Administration Allows Decentralized Development
Get a single view of authentication, authorization, and policies for compliance and audit control.
User consent
Okta allows downstream third-party applications to prompt users for permission to access sets of scopes. Each user’s consent remains valid until they choose to revoke these privileges.
Token preview
Preview the scopes, claims, and values in your OAuth tokens before activating them for APIs.
Dashboard and system log
Get real-time visibility and anomalous behavior reports. As token-related events such as creation and revocation occur, Event Hooks let you notify external services outside of Okta.
Learn more
See how our API Access Management effectively applies Universal Directory and Single Sign On to your APIs to protect all of your systems, whether they’re for employees, contractors, customers, or partners.
