All types of companies struggle to keep up with the increasing pace of change in today’s business environment, especially as dynamic workforces become more prevalent. At the same time, employee, partner, and customer expectations for frictionless (but still secure) experiences are soaring. In this 5-part blog series, we’ll review the pivotal role…

Companies of all kinds and sizes are adopting more cloud infrastructure and employing DevOps programs to streamline the delivery and operations of software. In doing so, they begin to foster a culture of automation that spans people, process, and technology. As a leading provider of open source technologies across the infrastructure landscape,…

Social login, also known as social sign-in or social sign-on, uses information from social networking sites to facilitate logins on third-party applications and platforms. The process is designed to simplify sign-in and registration experiences, providing a convenient alternative to mandatory account creation. For users, social login is a…

For this month’s Founders in Focus series, we’re hearing from Uri May of Hunters. Read on to learn more about the mission behind this Okta Ventures portfolio company and how they work with Okta. What is Hunters and what is your mission? Hunters is an Israeli cyber security startup. We built the industry’s first autonomous threat hunting solution…

I had the opportunity to talk with David Bradbury, CSO at Okta, about what it’s been like to manage his team and security for the broader organization during this time. I learned that, while the initial shift to remote work in early March brought to light many challenges for CISOs across every industry, it’s also opened new opportunities for those…

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, we were told by health and government officials to stay home and stay safe. Ironically, when it comes to corporate technology, home is one of the least secure places we can be. Allowing employees to work remotely can leave organizations susceptible to a number of security threats. And with the pandemic giving…

The ambition of bringing innovation to education is nothing new. And when it comes to how students access learning materials, technology has made big advances in the last 25-30 years. How educational publishers have provided those digital materials, however, has traditionally been in-house and ad hoc, built by internal IT support teams. But…

One of our earliest and most basic tenets here at Okta has been to make our customers wildly successful. And while we strive to do that every day, we are also continually in awe of them. As we engage and partner with our customers, we watch them grow, innovate and roll with the punches. One obvious “punch” to businesses worldwide was COVID-19, and…

Let’s go back in time a few years. Businesses operate largely within the boundaries of their office walls, and security networks function under the premise that there are ‘trusted’ internal users, and ‘untrusted’ external ones. Now, as more employees than ever are accessing their corporate resources remotely, with their own devices, this premise…

You know it, we know it: DevOps is a core function for any company that wants to deliver exceptional digital products to its customers. But as customers become used to rapid updates and new features from the applications they use every day, there’s an added pressure for your DevOps team to be continually innovating so that your business can do the…