Each month we’ll highlight one of the founders of Okta Ventures’ portfolio companies. You’ll get to know more about them and learn how they work with Okta. This month we’re speaking with David Goldschlag of Aembit. What is Aembit and what is your mission? Aembit is the first Workload Identity and Access Management (IAM) company. Aembit’s Workload…

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) are security standards developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). For organizations to adhere to  FIPS compliance, the system or product must meet configuration standards and pass rigorous audits through regular third-party assessments. To demystify FIPS compliance in…

The rise of Zero Trust architecture has brought new challenges to the table. With a Zero Trust approach, it's no longer sufficient to simply trust that a user's credentials are valid. Organizations must also verify the device itself to ensure that it meets their security standards. One key way to address this challenge is by enabling device login…

Okta was honored to have several of our cybersecurity experts participate in today’s White House Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) Modernization Symposium.  We applaud the Biden administration for holding this event and shining a light on the significant roles MFA and Identity play in securing critical infrastructure and successfully delivering…

Situation: Manual processes + lack of integration contribute to Identity risk and threaten strategic initiatives Akumin is a trusted partner for hospitals, health systems, and physician groups all over the United States. Since its founding in 2013, the company has grown to become the country’s No. 2 overall radiology services provider, with…

When solving Identity challenges in higher education, IT teams tend to adopt solutions that address the traditional Identity and access management (IAM) use cases: students, faculty, and staff accounts. Many practitioners overlook the fact that there are Identity needs outside of those internal IAM challenges. These needs include managing the…

We’ve made it safer and easier to use the Okta Customer Identity Cloud Dashboard to tackle common business customer onboarding and support tasks. Since releasing Organizations just under two years ago, we have been delighted to see how our Organizations features have been implemented by a growing number of customers to solve their B2B SaaS use…

In this difficult economic climate, today’s companies are forced to continue innovating despite tighter budget constraints. At the same time, security breaches are only getting worse. Verizon indicates that 74% of breaches involved human error of some kind, a costly consequence of managing critical IT and security infrastructure with manual…

The Workflows team released a new capability to help you build and organize flows. This blog post will teach you about the new subfolders’ capability.  Organizing flows into folders and subfolders As you create flows, helper flows, and tables, you can create folders and subfolders to keep automation organized.  Create new subfolder With folders…