A modern CIAM solution should not only meet today’s security and compliance standards, but it should also consider the requirements to build next-generation, frictionless customer experiences. The Okta Identity Cloud does exactly that, delivering the industry’s most secure and reliable CIAM solution to keep customer data safe, while also offering a range of sophisticated developer
Roll your own auth vs. embed a pre-built identity layer into your app Development teams have increasingly turned to pre-built tools to offload some of the burden of application development. Identity and access management presents developers with a broad range of challenges that a trusted identity layer can help offload easily. This is a sound
Microsoft customers are supplementing their suites with best of breed solutions from Okta, Zoom, Slack, and Box. Here’s why. For some companies, Microsoft’s all-in-one product suite may seem to be good enough for now. But there are significant, hidden costs and compromises, and Microsoft’s interconnected suite is unlikely to provide the best solution for cross
The Importance of Identity for SaaS Applications The enterprise cloud revolution is here. IT organizations everywhere, from small and mid-sized businesses to Fortune 500 companies, are moving from on-premises software to on-demand, cloud-based services. As enterprise IT makes this transition to a new hybrid on-demand/on-premises configuration, controlling who is granted access to which applications becomes
Okta Access Gateway delivers Okta Single Sign-On and Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication from the cloud to your on-premise web applications. Access Gateway supports the integration patterns natively supported by on-prem web apps – such as Kerberos, IWA, Header-Based authentication, and URL authorization – to provide security without requiring changes in their source code. Access Gateway acts
As a business expands and scales, it adapts with applications to streamline its network and operations. Where an employee may have once had one login and password, IT now manages hundreds of credentials for on-premises and Software as a Service (SaaS) apps, running on different platforms and multiple devices. Likewise, many businesses now offer online
The COVID-19 pandemic has forces millions of people around the globe to stay in their homes. As a result, more employees than ever are working remotely. To some, this new way of working comes as a welcome relief; no more commuting, no more distractions and a noticeable improved work-life balance. For others, however, this overnight
Passwordless authentication is no longer a dream of the distant future. For consumers, everyday technologies such as Apple Touch ID and Face ID and Windows Hello allow users to access their devices password free. And for the workforce, technologies like fingerprint and card readers and mobile authenticator apps help to provide a passwordless experience. Leaving
Humans don’t like change, especially when it involves difficulty. The inertia of the status quo is powerful. But what if it was that status quo which created many of your difficulties, but you simply weren’t aware of the fact? Equally what if change was then made really easy? In this eBook we aim to make
The metaphorical storm clouds that 2020 brought, undoubtedly contain business-critical silver linings. These will affect the way we all work going forwards in a positive manner. That was the general consensus from five leading technology directors who recently participated in the Okta-sponsored Hot Topics series: “Dynamic Work: Reimagining the Workplace”. Pre-Covid19, these five technology directors