Authentication

Create secure, seamless customer experiences with user authentication-as-a-service

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50M

daily authentications on the Okta Identity Cloud

10+

SDKs in the languages you
work in

99.99%

uptime for every customer

See how we came up with these numbers

CarMax

JetBlue

Albertsons

Standard Life Aberdeen

Expanding access to 200 years of financial services expertise with an enhanced digital platform
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Takeda

Verisk

Flinders University

Cengage

MGM Resorts International

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Protect your customer data with a strong user authentication system

User authentication services that rely on passwords alone are no longer secure. Don’t believe us? Just ask the millions of people whose password is “123456.”

Set strong customer authentication policies

Enable your IT and security admins to dictate strong password and user authentication policies to safeguard your customers’ data.

Reduce account takeover attacks

Easily add a second factor and enforce strong passwords to protect your users against account takeovers. Use multi-factor authentication to provide a higher level of assurance even if a user’s password has been compromised.

Balance security and user experience
for customer-facing apps

Don’t let your security features get in
the way of user experience

Passwordless authentication

The best password is no password. Get rid of passwords in the customer authentication experience using email credential links, factor sequencing or WebAuthn. Your customers will be pleased not need a password and you can rest assured that their data is still protected.

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Secure-but-simple factors

Set up Okta’s cloud-based authentication to give your users high-assurance but simple-to-use factors like biometrics and push notifications.

Get a single point of access, control and monitoring to detect and respond to patterns and behaviours across apps

Augment your security team and protect your end users from the latest threats proactively

Real-time syslog

Get a real-time syslog so IT can troubleshoot and address security issues immediately. Use advanced searches to identify the time, date, event time, location or targets of any security incident.

Network effect to identify threats

Take action against threats and suspicious activity across Okta’s ecosystem of more than 9,400 customers and 6,500 partners in the Okta Integration Network.

Pre-built reporting

Save time with pre-built reporting and data that you can download, sync and access in a variety of formats.

Learn about risk-based authentication

Meet compliance mandates quickly and easily

When a user requests “their information,” not understanding where it resides across your systems puts you at legal risk.

Streamlined user view

With a single view of a user across all systems, the right authentication service provider enables you to quickly and easily comply with “right to be forgotten,” CCPA, and other requests.

Unified access management for easy compliance

Keep operational costs low and minimise complexity while meeting compliance requirements by choosing a IAM partner who can take that work off your plate. Having a unified access management system across applications, API, and even servers and containers means you can meet compliance requirements with limited engineering effort.

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We want one login, one password and one digital identity [for our customers] that unlocks the door to many of the services that the Digital division provides.

Ranbir Samra

Leads data, architecture and platform engineering for Digital division

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Learn which other Okta products
complement Authentication

User Management

Add user sign-up to your apps and manage customer identities at scale via APIs or from Okta's user-friendly admin console.
 

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Adaptive MFA

Secure your apps and VPN with a robust policy framework and a set of modern second-verification factors.

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B2B Integration

Effortlessly integrate with enterprise directories or identity providers.

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API Access Management

Secure enterprise data and enable developers to focus on the user experience.

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