It’s been an exciting month here at Okta. Fresh off of Oktane16, our most successful customer conference yet, Forbes named Okta among the magazine’s Cloud 100, its first-ever ranking of the leading private cloud computing companies in the world. It’s exciting to be ranked No. 15 in this list of impressive names – leaders in every industry, from…

A typical enterprise has millions of daily interactions between customers, partners, employees and the cloud and mobile applications, devices and APIs they use. When viewed holistically, these usage events can offer invaluable security and compliance insights into the company’s technology portfolio, but historically this data has been difficult to…

Gone are the days when IT was a back office job and software was an internal productivity tool and business was solely conducted between a business and its customers. Today, software is the core component of company strategy, enabling organizations to work in modern business in which customers, employees, partners and contractors all collaborate…

Think about the last time you went home after dinner with friends. You pulled out your cell phone and hailed a ride using an app. As a customer, you had a seamless experience with just a few taps. But the backend technology that made it possible was actually a tapestry of interwoven apps, connected into one unified experience using APIs. The…

Seamless and secure access— anywhere, any device, anytime for any user. It sounds simple, right? Gone are the days when employees had a Windows desktop and authenticated with the corporate network to AD to get access to apps running in your datacenter. If users were outside the company, they were funneled in via the VPN. It’s a challenge to…

The Okta Application Network (OAN) has grown to include pre-built integrations for over 5,000 cloud, on-prem and mobile applications, with rich capabilities, like “app-as-master” which drives IT provisioning and intelligent user off-boarding, helping automate the user lifecycle. But Okta’s mission to connect everything expands far beyond…

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. Organizations need to empower these users with the access and apps they need, from the (many!) devices they use, without jeopardizing…

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…

Oktane16 is finally just four days away and our team is excited to see you there! All year we’ve been gearing up for our best Oktane yet, but seeing is believing. So, here are the top reasons we’re looking forward to Oktane16, as told by GIFs: Super sessions + keynotes: Hear from the Okta team, cloud and tech visionaries, and guest keynotes…

Here at Okta, we’re all about creating easy and secure connections for our customers. More and more organizations are migrating to the cloud, but we haven’t forgotten those organizations still locked into their existing on-premises IT infrastructure. Access to all applications, on-prem and cloud, should be simple and secure whether you’re trending…