There were several reasons I chose to join Okta five months ago. Back in 2010, I witnessed Okta’s founders Todd McKinnon and Frederic Kerrest gamble on a forward-thinking idea for cloud identity. Since then, Identity-as-a-Service has become a massive category that includes customer identity, workforce identity, and machine identity. Identity today…

Most of my mornings start the same way: I open my eyes to see my daughter, four inches from my face. After recovering from this alarm, I get up and make breakfast for my family—because when I’m not working in technology, I’m often a short-order cook, specializing in Mickey Mouse–shaped pancakes. After being judged on my somewhat average cooking…

Organizations across every industry are facilitating an exponential rise in new app creation and usage. This increase is making centralized access management increasingly costly and complex. Okta has always featured specific admin roles to meet these needs, spanning from “mobile admin” and “report admin” roles, to the global “Okta super admin”…

MFA stands for multi-factor authentication, an identity verification method. MFA adds an extra layer of security on top of credentials like usernames and passwords. By doing so, it provides greater certainty that a user is who they claim to be before granting them access to an application, online account, or corporate network. MFA is a critical…

Each month, we’re chatting with a founder of a company in the Okta Ventures portfolio for our Founders in Focus series. It’s a chance to take a closer look at the companies at the cutting edge of security, identity, and privacy. This month we’re speaking with Riddhiman Das of TripleBlind. What is TripleBlind and what is your mission? TripleBlind…

At Okta, we pride ourselves on being a trusted partner to businesses globally as they seek to connect people and technology. And with trends around remote work, cloud migration and cybersecurity accelerating with COVID-19, we’re more focused on this than ever. To help customers meet these growing Identity challenges, at Oktane21, we announced Okta…