Okta helps organizations manage identities through a modern, Zero Trust approach and a vendor-agnostic platform that easily integrates with critical applications in the cloud or on-premises. One app that remains important to both commercial and public sector organizations is Office 365, also known as Microsoft 365. It is one of the most popular…

Okta Workflows is a no-code platform for automating identity processes. The Workflows team holds weekly office hours where they answer builder questions. This blog post is based on a question asked during office hours: How to handle an external API call error in Workflows? Getting started When calling an external API results in an error, you want…

Okta Workflows is a no-code platform for automating identity processes. The Workflows team holds weekly office hours where they answer builder questions. This blog post is based on a question asked during office hours: How can I use Okta Workflows to automatically send an email to a specific department when a new employee is onboarded to that…

With the expanding scope of cyberattacks on financial institutions and a substantial increase in fraud, government and industry oversight bodies are stepping up with new regulations and requirements to protect consumers. One of the most recent examples are the updates to the Gramm-Leach Bliley Act (GLBA).  After 20 years of regulating information…

Organizations today face increasingly diverse and sophisticated cyber threats. This work is bigger than any one entity; it forms part of a collaborative global initiative to make the internet a safer place. For Cyber Security Awareness Month, we’re going behind the scenes with some of Okta’s Cyber Security Advocates, a talented group of…

We live in a world of modern digital companies and users have never had so much freedom. We can build anything with cloud apps and services. We can work from anywhere. Learn from anywhere. Shop and surf from anywhere, on any device. But so can the bad guys. What is Cyber Security Awareness Month? Back in 2004 when more of the global interactions…

“Hello, give me your name, address, shoe size, motorcycle and boots.” Now, we can all agree that approaching a first date like you’re the Terminator is not going to go very well. No one likes to be bombarded with personal questions as soon as they sit down — let alone by a stranger they’ve just met. Yet this is how most brands approach those first…

Technology simplifies things. Think about your smartphone. With a few taps of its screen, you can eliminate the drudgery of everyday life, like cooking and cleaning. It provides instant access to information you need, like commute times and stock prices.  Identity is another example of a modern approach. Today, strategies around your customer…

For today’s CIO, change is the name of the game. The old CIO playbook focused mainly on managing the technical stack and IT processes and launching new systems and technology. Then the pandemic came and exploded the way we work.  Suddenly entire workforces needed smooth and secure access from anywhere, and IT teams were expected to deliver. It…

As a chief marketing officer, I’m obsessed with creating a great customer experience. From the moment someone discovers our brand, and hopefully continuing through a lifetime of loyalty, I want to build a unique, exceptional relationship with each of our customers.  That’s never been easy. But these days it’s more challenging than ever because the…