Modern organizations have embraced Software as a Service (SaaS) in a big way—and for good reason. Cost savings, increased efficiency, and boosted productivity are just some of the benefits of outsourcing IT solutions like email, app hosting, and data storage to independent third parties. In fact, solutions offered by cloud providers like Microsoft…

This week, Yubico, one of our finest security partners, asked our Okta team about ways to stay safe during the holiday shopping season. Take the following little quiz to check your own security savvy when visiting sites and opening holiday emails. Give yourself a point for each best practice you do. How did you score? How many of these online…

TL;DR: Giving users access to the tools they need is a challenge, and it’s getting tougher by the day. Automating that process could be the key to your success. Here’s why IT teams need automated provisioning, and how your own team can do it. IT departments today face two main challenges: The first is that people are changing jobs more often—at a…

As we prep our holiday shopping lists and pull out the festive sweaters, it’s almost time to look back on 2018. We want to use this season of reflection and cheer to showcase some of our many amazing customers. Our customers are the best gifts of all, so we’re celebrating with our annual 12 Days of Customers! JetBlue: The airline with a mission to…

We recently delivered a webinar featuring Gartner research on the latest trends impacting customer identity and access management (CIAM). Gartner’s Research Vice President Mary Ruddy presented findings from her March 2018 research, Top 5 Trends in CIAM Solution Design. Discussion in the webinar included the challenges organizations face in keeping…

Passwords have been a constant throughout our digital “coming of age”. As we’ve moved from desktops to smartphones, from on-premises infrastructure to cloud services, we’ve all relied on passwords to access and safeguard our data and resources. Passwords are so deeply ingrained into our web apps and accounts, it can be challenging to imagine…

Passwords. Most of us have a love-hate relationship with them. Security best practices and common sense tells us to pick unique, hard-to-guess passwords for every account, which makes management of them a pain, or leads to bad password habits like reusing them. Then there’s the inherent security of passwords, or rather, the insecurity of them. As…

Source: Habitat for Humanity FacebookMore than ever, NGOs are leveraging technology for humanitarian aid, often in some of the most remote areas in the world. And, increasingly, “for vulnerable communities, access to connectivity is becoming as important to a successful future as access to food, water, and shelter”. The nonprofit sector, like many…

At Okta, we are highly invested in the latest ideas and practices around authentication and security—and that requires some myth busting. This blog is the second in a series of posts meant to tackle common misunderstandings and myths around single sign-on (SSO). See below for our full list of the myths we've seen (and busted!) around SSO. Single…

This festive season is an exciting time for consumers, and offers huge profit potential for retailers. Holiday retail sales for 2018 are set to surge by 4.1% over the same period last year. In addition, e-commerce sales are predicted to climb by an impressive 16.2%! Merchants that capitalize on this sales opportunity could enjoy a large bonus…