This year, the business community was forced to adapt to a new era of distributed work—and cyber threats have adapted right along with them. Between unsecured home WiFi networks and the rise in personal devices accessing company resources, the opportunities for data theft have risen as teams have dispersed. Implementing robust identity and access…

Do you remember shopping online during the early days of ecommerce? At that point, engaging with a brand meant dozens of fields to fill out, long latency, and losing your entire order if you hit the back button—it was a bad experience all around. Now, all too often, developer experience is in the same place that user and customer experiences were…

The year 2020 has been marked by difficulty, disruption, and division. Here at Okta, we share that sense as we look back at the headlines that have shaped the past 12 months—events that are now shaping how we orient ourselves towards the future.  But we also have the good fortune of thinking about the past year with a sense of pride and…

Understanding what lies in the future of customer identity is one of the biggest challenges we’re figuring out at Okta—and it’s one that defines a lot of the work we’re doing. Now, as we come to the final stage of the journey to CIAM maturity, it only makes sense to think about what’s next for customer identity and access management (CIAM). The…

How are you doing? For just about everyone, 2020 has been a fierce test of adaptability, flexibility, and resilience. This is especially true for those running businesses, as they’ve had to rethink their operations, goals, and ways of working and managing in the face of the pandemic.  In the scramble to adjust and adapt to this new reality, shared…

Throughout COVID-19, businesses have not only had to manage immediate disruptions—they’ve also had to try to anticipate what’s next. The pandemic has upset supply chains, restricted in-person services, and bottlenecked customer interactions on online channels. But with chaos, there’s often opportunity to be found. When it comes to digital customer…

For the last Founders in Focus post of the 2020, we’re chatting with Adam Pettit, founder and CEO of Kandji. Kandji joined the Okta Ventures portfolio in October, and Adam shares with us how Kandji is reinventing Apple device management for modern organizations. What is Kandji, and what is your mission? Kandji is a device management (MDM) solution…

From day one, Okta has been committed to building a culture of inclusion and belonging. We know that fostering a diverse workforce, customer base, and partner network is not only the right thing to do, but also the only way we will succeed. Identity is at the core of Okta’s mission, and it extends well beyond our products. We value what makes…

In our near digital future, every organization will need flexible, customizable, and best-in-class cloud solutions. And, as we revealed in Okta’s annual Businesses at Work report, our 9400+ customer companies are embracing app diversity, unifying communications, and streamlining employee and customer experiences—without compromising on security.  …

They say if you want something done, you have to do it yourself. But that doesn’t apply to customer identity and access management (CIAM). In fact, falling for the trap of thinking that it’s easy to embed a strong identity layer into user experiences can be a costly mistake. Digital products and services are key business drivers, and their…