Automating Infrastructure Identity with Okta Advanced Server Access

It’s a New World

Today’s ever-evolving business environment has accelerated to the point where to survive, every company must become a technology company. Market realities have changed dramatically, requiring companies to adapt at tremendous speeds. Customers are demanding new ways to purchase goods and services. Partners are looking for new ways to work closely without the need for around-the-world flights. And the way employees work together has changed almost overnight. With the pace of change increasing ever faster, even the most successful companies are struggling to keep up, let alone stay ahead.

To meet these challenges, companies are expediting many strategic IT and security initiatives that give their employees, customers, and partners the capabilities needed to do business in the current climate. Migration to the cloud has accelerated, as companies seek the flexibility and lower cost of moving to cloud-based compute, storage, and networking services. To expedite the delivery of new services while scaling quickly to meet increasing customer demand, software suppliers are turning to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provided by cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure.

While increasing a company’s velocity, these strategic initiatives share a common barrier to faster implementation: security. The primary job of today’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is to enable th