I love the challenge of finding innovative solutions to complex problems. I was a developer for several years before I joined Okta. At the time, Okta’s product offering was much more limited than it is today but in identity, I saw an opportunity which knew no bounds to a developer. Little did I realize that joining Okta would become such a large…

At Okta, we celebrate our employees’ unique backgrounds, accomplishments and all that we’ve learned along the way. In honor of International Women’s Day, we’re sharing a blog series in which we’ll celebrate the women we get to work with every day, and hear about their proudest successes, and honest advice. To kick us off, we sat down with…

Today, I’m happy to share the news that Okta and Stormpath are joining forces. With a six-year, laser focus on providing identity management and APIs to developers, Stormpath is the perfect complement to accelerate Okta’s enterprise platform strategy and products. Co-founders Alex Salazar and Les Hazlewood have built a team with great technical…

Today, companies face a challenging world. Big breaches are constantly in the news, but many executives are underinformed about the realities of cybersecurity. Meanwhile, IT admins are overwhelmed with tasks such as conducting password resets. There are solutions for this situation—identity software among them—but effectively explaining their…

At Okta, we believe that nothing is more important than identity. And although we spend a lot of time discussing how our product connects and secures millions of identities, we know that each of those identities extends far beyond work, apps and devices. Your identity is who you are as an individual. That’s why I’m excited to share our “Identities…

Today's worker wants everything, anywhere, anytime, which has led to the rise of different types of accounts and identities such as cloud, mobile and other devices, e-commerce, and social networks, making identity management a lot more complicated. Now, user accounts are exploding in number and type, and in addition to being difficult to manage,…

Like all start-ups, Massdrop started small. Really small. A-bunch-of-Canadian-guys-working-out-of-a-house small. But their concept was huge, and it didn’t take long for Massdrop’s e-commerce site to take off. That success isn’t surprising, since the idea behind the retail site is truly innovative—it allows individuals to join interest-based…

Talia Israel’s story is unique-- she has worked on almost every part of an Okta customer’s journey. After working with Okta while at several different companies and a very successful implementation, she joined our Customer Success team as an Adoption Program Manager. The funniest part of the role she didn’t realize would occur? People thinking she…

At Okta, creating secure connections for our customers is the top priority. Although more and more applications are being moved to the cloud, many customers operate in a hybrid environment with key applications remaining on-premises. For these organizations with on-premises IT infrastructure, our partnership with F5 Networks ensures that end-users…

The shift to the cloud continues to accelerate. Enterprises of every size are adopting best-of-breed cloud apps at a faster rate than ever as they see this strategy accelerate their growth, minimize their costs, and streamline their processes. We built the Okta Identity Cloud to connect these organizations to thousands of pre-integrated…