From the stereotypical loner in the basement to organized criminal gangs and nation states, attackers have become increasingly sophisticated over the past decade. They have the same skills, tools, and services at their fingertips as your IT teams do. This includes the ability to use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to create sophisticated
The Industrialization of Fraud: Fighting Fire With Fire, commissioned by Shape—part of F5—and produced by Aite Group, discusses the sophisticated attack strategies employed by organized crime rings as they methodically and systematically leverage the vast amount of breached data to perpetrate financial crime. This white paper also provides a series of best practices that firms
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
While 2020 kickstarted a mass wave of digital transformation across the enterprise world, the rapid pace of change showed no signs of slowing in 2021. To help strengthen long-term hybrid workforce strategies, secure data from growing cyberthreats, and to adapt to life after the pandemic, organisations of all sizes and locations once again turned to