The modern workforce is fluid— the proliferation of part-time workers, contractors, vendors and distributed partner networks, each with unique lifecycles, poses a huge hurdle for access management and compliance. Organisations need to empower these users with the access and apps they need, from the (many!) devices they use, without jeopardising…

Imagine your typical weeknight: you come home for dinner, and maybe you check the mail, which is filled with unsolicited offers for new credit cards. While waiting for dinner to cook, you clear out the emails in your spam folder. And when you finally sit down to dinner with your family, the phone rings — surprise, surprise, it’s a telemarketer…

The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) generated some buzz yesterday with the release of its Digital Authentication Guideline draft. As part of its purview, NIST recommends national-level guidelines and rules for cryptography and secure communications. In the proposal, NIST recommends implementers consider authenticators other…

Protecting personal health and identity information is paramount within the healthcare industry. At Okta, we partner with HIPAA Covered Entities and their Service Providers to secure this very data, while enabling these partners to quickly innovate and remain leaders in the industry. To better serve the highly-regulated and security-conscious…

Today, we’re announcing new features for iOS devices to ensure the best possible user experience for our customers, while also enforcing strong security protections. More security is always a good thing in the minds of IT and security administrators, but it can often be burdensome on the end user. One way Apple makes strong security easy for end…

It’s been a busy few months here at Okta EMEA. This past year, we expanded into the Nordics, opened an EU data centre in Germany with failover in Ireland, obtained ISO 27001 certification for our information security management system, and announced our partnership with Box to support contextual access management. On top of that, last year we…

If you’ve seen Okta’s Best Of 2015 report we published in late December, you know that all signs point to 2016 being a banner year for all forms of strong authentication. As our data so clearly shows, the classic security question is on its way out and providers of new authentication methods (including our very own Okta Verify with Push) are…

It’s almost Valentine’s Day, so everyone is talking about love — us included. Here at Okta, while we’re certainly swooning over roses, wine, and chocolates, what we really hold near and dear are our relationships with customers and the experiences they have with our technology. We obsess over uniting two seemingly divorced characteristics —…

We've written before about Office 365's popularity as a result of Microsoft's pursuit of the enterprise and massive push to the cloud. But Office 365 isn't the only app winning this game. Many cloud apps — from Box and Workday to relative newcomers Slack, Envoy and Zapier — are collectively taking the enterprise by storm. According to our data,…

Cloud technology is growing at unprecedented levels — and as a result businesses are changing the way they work, seeing an increasing number of employees use mobile devices to access both personal and work related information. While these changes enable workers to be more productive, they also bring security concerns for IT departments tasked with…