Okta awarded the Palo Alto Networks 2023 Global Technology Partner Innovator of the Year

Okta is proud to be recognized as the Palo Alto Networks 2023 Global Technology Partner Innovator of the Year! These annual awards are presented to an elite group of Palo Alto Networks partners that, over the past 12 months, have excelled in one or more of the following areas:

• Performance: Bookings that partners initiate, the pipeline they build, innovative new services launched, and net new customers added.
• Enablement: Number of Palo Alto Networks technical, pre-sales, sales, and post-sales training courses and certifications completed.
• Engagement: Nominated by the Palo Alto Networks team for exceptional engagement with Palo Alto Networks and our customers.
• Technical Innovation: Nominated by the Palo Alto Networks team for demonstrated technical innovation via product integration(s).

Okta’s partnership with Palo Alto Networks tackles end-to-end Zero Trust to help organizations enable stronger security by addressing the foundational step of validating Identity for users, apps, and infrastructure. We have several integrations with Prisma Access, NGFW, Cortex XDR, and more that allow us to be jointly positioned to deliver a broader, higher quality, and integrated set of capabilities. Our product and engineering teams are working across multiple areas that are key for our joint customers to achieve a Zero Trust security posture, continuing to invest and innovate with Okta on products such as Identity Threat Protection with Okta AI.

With customers today facing a constantly evolving identity and security landscape with new challenges, it’s now more crucial than ever that we work closely with security thought leaders to bring value to our customers — this is why we partner with Palo Alto Networks to build integrations that provide innovation and defense-in-depth. 
“Collaboration and integration between technology companies is critical to enabling strong security capabilities for customers,” said Pamela Cyr, Vice President, Technical Partnerships at Palo Alto Networks. “Together with our technology partners, we’re combining best-of-breed technologies to create pre-built integrations that help our customers achieve stronger operational efficiencies, improved end-user experience, and better security outcomes. We’re proud to recognize Okta as Global Technology Partner Innovator of the Year, and we look forward to our continued innovation together.”

Learn more here about our partnership and many integrations.