Security questions are a common method of identity authentication—one you’ve probably encountered before. When creating an account or signing up for a service online, users will confidentially share the answers to secret questions with a provider.  Typically, these security questions and answers are used for self-service password recovery…

Okta’s vision is to safely enable everyone to use any technology. To achieve this ambitious mission, we’ve been investing heavily in customer identity — enabling organizations to build secure customer experiences — and transitioning from delivering products to building a true platform to address every identity use case. Today, we're taking a…

The best digital experiences may appear effortless from the outside, but keeping web and mobile apps and portals at a market-leading standard takes a lot of work. Your development teams are likely juggling multiple products, brands, and channels, all with their own set of requirements and varying degrees of complexity. As the front door to your…

You and your business have had to adapt in unexpected ways this past year—and so have your customers.  The option of visiting a physical office, classroom, or store may no longer be available; locations that are open may be operating under strict capacity limits or other COVID-19 restrictions. Increased use of telephone, chat, and email customer…

When Okta took the 1% pledge in 2016, we founded our social impact arm, Okta for Good, with a mission to strengthen the connections between people, technology, and community. The importance of these connections has never been more clear than over the last year — when we experienced a global pandemic, rising inequality, and global calls for racial…

Over the past year, people around the world have moved online and now conduct most of their daily lives digitally — from classes to grocery shopping; from doctor appointments to holiday celebrations. These digital shifts have required increased trust from all of us. Employees and employers have had to trust each other to work securely and…

Partners are at the center of everything we do at Okta, and they continue to be critical to our growth as a company. That’s why, as we kicked off our new fiscal year this month, we invited our entire partner ecosystem to join us virtually, where we recognized the values and growth of our top partners with the Okta Partner Awards for FY21. For the…

Microservices architecture, also known simply as “microservices,” is an approach to building software with modular services that are distinct and independent from each other.  In recent years, microservices have become a popular choice for designing and deploying applications. They allow apps to be broken into smaller and loosely coupled pieces …

2020: the year all plans went out the window.  That’s certainly how it feels some days, isn’t it? Reflect back to January 1, the optimism of a new year, and the list of goals you and your business were poised and ready to achieve. Just 10 weeks later, everything went off the rails. Everyone’s adaptability and flexibility was, and continues to be,…

Okta took the 1% Pledge in 2016, launching Okta for Good and directing a portion of our most valuable resources — equity, people, and products — back to the community. Since then, Okta for Good has committed more than $7.5 million in product licenses to nonprofit organizations around the world. Making our technology more accessible to nonprofits…