Okta connects any person with any application on any device. It’s an enterprise-grade, identity management service, built for the cloud, but compatible with many on-premises applications. With Okta, IT can manage any employee’s access to any application or device. Okta runs in the cloud, on a secure, reliable, extensively audited platform, which integrates deeply with on-premises applications, directories, and identity management systems.
The Okta solution was born of the unique challenges of how technology has grown and shifted in the growing diversity of devices, identity issues, security, employee mobility, vender partnership, and the exponential growth of unique application options.
Okta Verify is an MFA factor and authenticator app developed by Okta. The app is used to confirm a user’s identity when they sign in to their Okta account.
You may be wondering “What can Okta do for You?”
Our answer is that Map Okta attributes to app attributes to establish one single source of truth for your user data. Create up to 10 custom user types for more flexible authentication and provisioning. It is time to set your organization up with success with materials to help manage your apps and users.
Can I connect Okta to my App?
You can connect any application in any language or on any stack to Okta and define how you want your users to sign in. Each time a user tries to authenticate, Okta will verify their identity and send the required information back to your app.
What is okta lifecycle management?
Okta’s Lifecycle Management integrates directly with HR software, so that when HR adds a new employee of record or changes a user’s position within the company, that user is automatically provisioned based on group rules that adhere to the organization’s security policies.
One of the next things we wondered was, what are lifecycle management workflows in Okta?
One way to think about this is in 2020, Okta launched Lifecycle Management Workflows to give IT admins the power to automate complex identity-centric processes such as onboarding & offboarding, creating unique usernames, and more without code. Learn about Workflows and what it can do.
Why use Okta for scalable authentication?
Get scalable authentication built right into your application without the development overhead, security risks, and maintenance that come from building it yourself. You can connect any application in any language or on any stack to Okta and define how you want your users to sign in.
Another thing we wondered was: how can Okta identity Cloud help with employee onboarding?
With powerful automation, you can move from manual employee onboarding and offboarding IT tasks towards a modern approach. In particular, the Okta Identity Cloud enables many forward-looking IT teams to streamline tedious provisioning, entitlement configuration, and de provisioning processes.
What are the challenges of lifecycle management?
The challenges of managing the lifecycles of your employees, contractors, partners, and customer identities are larger than ever. Organizations need more extensibility and customizability. Join this session to learn how Okta’s vision for the Lifecycle management product will help you get it all under control.