Authentication for Developers

Get going fast. Build with confidence.

Okta distills the toughest identity and security requirements into a seamless, simple auth solution designed for everyone.

Use your existing stack to integrate sign-in, protect your APIs and infrastructure, and get back to building.

With support for 13 languages and frameworks, Okta plugs right into your existing codebase and easily adapts to your evolving needs.

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What can Okta do for you?

Adding authentication and authorisation to your app.

You can use Okta to enable your users to sign in with a username/password or with their social accounts, such as Google or Facebook using pre-built sign-in components from Okta.

After the user has signed in, you can retrieve their user profile to customise the UI based on their role and apply your authorisation policies.

Adding authentication and authorisation to your API.

You can use Okta to secure your APIs and application backends so that only authorised users and applications can call them. Define scopes and claims and configure policies to determine who can have access to your API resources.

Implementing single sign-on (SSO) to multiple apps.

Use Okta to allow your users to sign in to multiple applications instead of requiring them to remember separate sets of credentials for each application or service. Implement SSO to allow users to simply sign in once and access their full suite of applications.

Enforcing multi-factor authentication (MFA) when your users want to access sensitive data.

Add MFA to your website, enabling a second level of security (SMS, email, voice, biometrics, Okta Verify, etc.) for every sign-in or configure policies to only enforce MFA based on location, network and device context. For instance, you can enforce MFA only if the user is signing in from a new device that is in a different country than your office or only if they are accessing confidential data.

Federating your users using an existing enterprise directory.

Use Okta to allow users to sign in to internal and third-party applications using their existing enterprise credentials or through Active Directory (AD) or LDAP servers.

Managing the users that access your application.

Use Okta's UI to add or remove users, modify profile and authorisation attributes and quickly troubleshoot user sign-in issues. Okta gives you one place to manage your users and their data. Sync users from a variety of services, third-party apps, and user stores.

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Authentication

Quickly add secure user authentication to your app with passwords or tokens.

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Authorisation

Use fine-grained permissions and intelligently control user access based on factors like geo, IP, device and historical behaviour patterns.

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Extensibility

Extend the capabilities of your app to unlock use-cases such as ID proofing, alerting and monitoring with your tool-of choice, and full customisation of your registration flow.

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