For the companies on the Forbes Global 2000 list, change is more than just a given. It’s an imperative.  For these massive global organizations, high-stakes moments like mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, expansions, and restructuring all drive growth and innovation. They also present sizable challenges that leave executives asking, “How can…

Earlier this year, Okta announced we’re going 100% passwordless, updating all of the apps and services our workforce uses to be consistent with phishing-resistant policies. Towards that goal, we're making great progress. Each week we analyze thousands of authentication events triggered by our workforce. And this past week, fewer than 2% of those…

Nearly two decades ago, the U.S. Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12) established a new identity policy for federal employees and contractors. Its goal was a strong, government-wide approach to secure both physical and logical access. Today, the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) and Common Access Card (CAC) standards are…

Being able to import identities from HR systems and manage them in Okta’s Universal Directory is the basis for all of the downstream Identity actions every customer takes with the Workforce Identity Cloud. It allows customers to develop security policies to authenticate into applications, manage user lifecycles with easy provisioning and…

In this article, we will cover some of the characteristics of FIDO2 WebAuthn, which give it an edge over other authenticators (factors). We will also dive into the usage and growth of WebAuthn from Okta’s perspective, along with some of the challenges we are trying to solve for customers here at Okta. WebAuthn (Web Authentication) is one of the…

Deploying phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication helps prevent unauthorized access to your company’s sensitive resources. But what if the process to enroll in that factor is not phishing-resistant? At Okta, we recognize the phishing resistance of a factor traces all the way back to enrollment, and that’s why we have now built into Okta…

Okta’s product release cadence At Okta, there are 12 monthly releases for General Availability of new features and there are weekly releases for Early Availability of new features, security patches, bug fixes, and non-customer-facing backend changes.      Every release train spans a three-week window wherein the deployment to the Dev-Test…