Earlier this year, we celebrated our 10-year anniversary. It's hard to imagine that just a decade ago, Okta was made from two people working away in a tiny office in San Francisco. Munich is our twelfth office, in our eighth country, bringing our Oktanauts number to over 1,900 employees. To celebrate our new office opening, and our formal…

Innovation is what keeps our wheels turning. Our second core value is to “Never stop innovating,” so we can continue to offer products and services that meet our customers’ needs. Brad Morgan, staff software engineer on our security team, embodies this core value by working towards micro innovations in his personal and professional life every day…

  We humans have been categorically labeling things for hundred of thousands of years. Personally, I try not to assign labels to people. We are all unique, and there’s always more to people than meets the eye, right? (The only exception being… Green Bay Packers fans.) In the IT world we have lots of good reasons to use labels. But the more common…

We’re rapidly moving towards the enterprise of the future—but what does that look like? It could be a place where employees have intelligent interactions with machines, or an environment where commuting becomes obsolete because we can show up to meetings as holograms. No one can say for sure what the future looks like—but based on today’s trends,…

It’s better to be a specialist than a generalist: when you try to be good at too many things, you end up being great at nothing—and that’s why organizations today use a wide ecosystem of partner companies. Businesses across all industries are engaging with hundreds , if not thousands, of third-party entities each year—and for these relationships…

This last January, Okta officially moved into our brand-new San Francisco headquarters! And with that move, we unveiled something special: our newly remodeled and upgraded Customer Experience Center. With the launch of our new center, we’re excited to connect with our customers in a whole new way—moving us closer to our number one core value, love…

Our customers are at the heart of what we do, which is why “Love our customers” tops our list of core values. In this edition of our Core Values series, we’re excited to highlight Alexia Case, senior marketing manager, executive and strategic programs. Alexia embodies “Love our customers” daily through managing Okta’s Customer Experience Center,…

Golden State Warriors player Andre Iguodala has always excelled under pressure. Back when he was a teenager in 2001, Iguodala’s AAU National Championship semifinal game was coming down to the wire. He was one of the best players on the team, and his opponents were guarding him aggressively. Suddenly, with two seconds left on the clock, a teammate…

As organizations race to the cloud, a unique set of challenges has emerged in customer security, and customer identity is a hotspot. Some organizations will try to lift and shift their previous on-prem technology, patterns, and practices to the cloud, while others will attempt to build their own identity systems themselves. Both options introduce…

Quyen Tien, product recruiter and Okta for Good ambassador, is a daughter of immigrants and the first female college graduate in her family. In this edition of Your Story Inspires, Quyen shares how her background gave her the strength to embrace her ever-changing identity, and even write about her experiences in her personal memoir, Don’t Pinch. …