CISO Guide: Secure Cloud and Mobile Data with Okta

This guide will explain how Okta helps you meet your security goals through detection of phishing, account-takeover and Man-in-the-Middle attacks, comprehensive log analytics, and field-level data encryption.

Executive Summary

As a CISO today, you face new and complex challenges to safeguarding your organization’s data. The days when all your applications and file servers sat safely behind a firewall, only being accessed from corporate-owned devices are gone.

Hackers are getting more resourceful and taking advantage of the shift of company apps to the cloud, where employees connect to them from all types of personal devices like smartphones, tablets, and Macs. To prevent data breaches, security teams must adapt.

The good news: By adopting secure cloud solutions, not compromising on user experience, and using contextual data about users and devices, you can more effectively detect hacks and improve the security of your cloud and mobile data.

Okta helps you meet your security goals through phishing and account-takeover detection, comprehensive log analytics, and field-level data encryption.

Detect Attacks and Protect the Organization

Phishing

Phishing attacks are a sneaky and effective way to steal data. Hackers simply have to trick a user into clicking on a fraudulent email link or installing a malware app on a mobile phone. When the unsuspecting user logs in, the hacker secretly makes away with the credentials.

In the battle against phishing attacks, multi-factor authentication (MFA) is key because it forces hackers to spoof an additional piece of information, such as a one-time passcode, or biometric data like a fingerprint.

Okta Adaptive MFA takes strong authentication one step further by using contextual data about users, their devices, and when and how they access applications, to build rich profiles of user behavior. This helps keep false positives low and improves your security by rolling out strong authentication to more