Last April during Oktane19, our annual customer conference, we launched Okta Ventures — a $50 million investment fund for the growing ecosystem of startups tackling issues like identity, security, and privacy. We also announced our first investment in Trusted Key, a blockchain-based digital identity company (recently acquired by Workday). We’re…

There are a number of things that help make an application what it is—the most fundamental of which is the architecture it’s based on. To date, most technology has been built on monolithic architecture, with all components existing within one complex application. More recently, however, developers have started compartmentalizing each component or…

Okta has always made protecting cloud applications easy; and with the introduction of Okta Access Gateway we extend that protection to on-premises applications. In this article, I cover how Access Gateway delivers Okta Single Sign-On (SSO) and Adaptive Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) to the hybrid cloud fast, and without changing how your on…

By now you’ve likely heard the debate about the growth and adoption of Microsoft Teams vs. Slack. We wanted to bring a different perspective to this conversation based on the trends we're seeing across our network of thousands of companies, applications, and technology integrations, and millions of daily authentications and verifications. As the…

From San Francisco to Sydney, Megan Peters, senior manager, APAC sales development, is bringing her sales expertise all over the world (and writing about her travels, too). Read this edition of the Day in the Life series to learn more about how Megan works tirelessly across time zones to make her people successful. How did you find out about Okta…

When I talk to customer success (CS) leads at other companies, there’s one thing that’s usually on their minds: how to get C-suite buy-in on making investments in customer success. As CS leaders, they know customer success should be a strategic asset in their organization, but securing buy in from their peers relative to other investments isn’t…

To keep up with the rapid pace of innovation, organizations of all kinds and sizes are adopting DevOps practices to better automate the delivery and operations of software in the cloud. A cultural phenomenon that impacts people and process as much as it does technology, DevOps brings teams together with the goal of removing barriers – the…

“Have I been pwned?” It’s a question you’ve probably asked yourself before. Phishing and stolen credentials are still among the primary threat methods in breaches, and as hackers grow more sophisticated, employees and consumers have to get smarter about the credentials they use to access digital applications. On the flip side, companies also have…

Quantum computing is a fast-emerging area of computer science that is upending the foundations of cybersecurity. It’s set to change how we secure our everyday communications, process credit cards, store data, and securely connect to websites. But it’s also likely to disrupt modern security as we know it. What is quantum computing? Conventional…

  The past year has given us many reasons to celebrate. To start, we celebrated Okta’s 10-year anniversary and marked the occasion by bringing Oktane back home to San Francisco. We expanded our global reach, opening new offices across Europe and North America. And most importantly, we continued to work with our exceptional customers, who are…