In today’s identity management climate, single sign-on (SSO) capability is critical to the success of enterprise identity and access management (IAM). IT departments face growing demands: managing thousands of users, both internal and external, who each need access to an increasing number of cloud-based applications. Adding to this complexity is the fact that these users
Every team building a new web or mobile application faces a choice: build the entire application in-house or selectively use out-of-the-box services to make the job easier and faster. Many of today’s successful teams have chosen the latter with services like Stripe and Braintree to offload payments and Twilio to offload communications. A third-party customer
The world of Identity and Access Management (IAM) is rarely controversial. But today, there is a battle brewing in how we – as an industry – talk about customer-facing use cases for IAM. Many are starting to refer to this as Customer IAM or Consumer IAM, both abbreviated as CIAM.
Authentication is generally accomplished by validating one of three types of factors: something you know (e.g. a password), something you have (e.g. an ID card), and something you are (e.g. a fingerprint). Multi-factor authentication employs two or more types of factors. Web and mobile products most commonly employ the use of multi-factor authentication with a
A secure enterprise is a successful enterprise. Security threats are a massive burden for most organizations—but in spite of the fact that cyber-attacks are continually becoming more sophisticated, many of them begin with the same weaknesses: user accounts. And that includes the credentials and login policies that are supposed to protect them. Most enterprises understand
Too busy to watch the Zero Trust in Practice webinar? Don’t worry—we’ve got you covered. There’s a lot of hype around Zero Trust security, but it’s proving to be more than just theory Trust used to be a binary decision determined by the network, but as organizations move to mobile and cloud-based services, the perimeter
This white paper provides an overview of Okta Adaptive Multi-factor Authentication (MFA). For security conscious organizations looking to protect applications and data, Okta Adaptive MFA is a comprehensive but simple strong authentication solution that provides policy driven contextual access management, supports a broad set of modern factors, leverages big data insights across thousands of enterprises,
Necessity is the mother of invention, and it appears that 2020 has accelerated workforce potential to be more agile and productive, from any location on any device, whilst staying secure. Dynamic Work, as we call it at Okta, may just be the biggest silver lining that emerges from the dark clouds of Covid19.
Before 2020, businesses across industries and regions were already navigating a gradual, but important shift towards remote work. However, the remarkable circumstances caused by a global pandemic have accelerated this process, forcing organizations to quickly revisit how their employees access the tools and resources they need to do their work. In this whitepaper, we’ll share
This book consists of five chapters that explore: »»The importance of identity, what it is, and how it has evolved (Chapter 1) »»What modern identity (Identity as a Service) is and how it helps organizations address identity challenges and different use cases (Chapter 2) »»The components of a modern identity solution (Chapter 3) »»New trends