With Okta, users are able to register a “ platform” authenticator during the sign-in flow for your organization’s tenant. By configuring sign-on options and MFA enrollment policies, administrators can turn on web authentication for users via the feature flag.
Use Okta to allow your users to sign in to other applications instead of requiring them to remember separate sets of credentials for each application or service. Users can simply sign in once and access your full suite of applications. You want to enforce multifactor authentication (MFA) when your users want to access sensitive data.
You can use Okta to allow 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 customize the UI based on their role and apply your authorization policies.
You could be wondering “Which biometric authentication methods does Okta support?”
Speaker 1 : Now I’m going to demo a biometric authentication method that Okta natively supports. In this case, it’s Windows, Hello. We also support touch ID on i, and phones. Windows Hello is built into windows 10, so we expect it to be a pretty popular way to authenticate to applications, especially since you don’t have to use a password.
How does Okta work with apps?
Each time a user tries to authenticate, Okta will verify their identity and send the required information back to your app. Use our SDKs or API to connect your apps, add users, configure rules, customize your sign-in page, and then monitor your services from our built-in reports.
What is an authentication token?
The user may still have one password to remember, but the token offers another form of access that’s much harder to steal or overcome. And the session’s record takes up no space on the server. All authentication tokens allow access, but each type works a little differently. These are three common types of authentication tokens:.