Launch Week: What’s new for Okta EMEA in Q2
Because the Identity threats are always evolving and multiplying, everyone at Okta continuously strives to make our software and solutions better. We have teams of engineers dedicated to a long list of exciting features and improvements — so many improvements, in fact, that we’ve had to find a new way to tell you about them.
That’s why we’ve introduced Okta Launch Week, a digest of the latest Okta updates and product releases. We know it’s vital that we give our customers and partners clarity and visibility on what’s coming next for our products and services, so we hope this quarterly showcase will help you understand how each update benefits you and your organisation.
In this inaugural Okta Launch Week, I wanted to focus on three updates in particular:
- Adding threat signal integration to Identity Threat Protection with Okta AI
Everyone’s talking about AI right now, but cutting through the hype, there are tangible, practical ways it can help reduce security risks.
Imagine the moment one of your users clicks on a phishing link. Okta Identity Threat Protection will detect the threat and immediately log the user out of all authenticated apps, greatly improving the chances of stopping the attack in its tracks.
Continuously assessing Identity risks is crucial to ensuring potential vulnerabilities are identified and addressed promptly. By responding to threat signals across your applications and security stack, Okta Identity Threat Protection can now detect and understand emerging threats. That’s the power of integration in action.
This continuous risk assessment and response also helps businesses comply with important EU legislation like NIS2. Okta ITP helps with NIS2 requirements like “Apply stronger risk management” and “Improve Incident handling.”
In today’s post-pandemic world — one of hybrid and remote working — we need to secure access to applications from everywhere. Identity Threat Protection with Okta AI allows your organisation to leverage its existing investments in SaaS and security solutions, like your extended detection and response, and network or mobile device management tools.
Identity Threat Protection helps you supercharge threat insights from your wider security ecosystem and automate real-time responses to Identity threats.
- Protecting sensitive services with Highly Regulated Identity
If you need to secure sensitive operations within your applications, Okta Highly Regulated Identity is for you. Okta HRI helps you safeguard sensitive actions in your applications, such as updating account information, changing security settings, or accessing sensitive data.
Okta Highly Regulated Identity allows your users, through Strong Customer Authentication, to review and approve transactions in real time.
HRI features certified FAPI 1 Advanced security profile implementation to ensure data privacy and app security. It protects end-to-end flows against cyber and fraud risks, like transaction tampering.
FAPI 1 lays the foundation for open banking requirements across Europe, although its implementation in Okta HRI means it can be applied to a wide range of use cases, beyond financial services.
- No-code extensibility with Forms for Actions
Okta Forms for Actions feature — the latest innovation for the Customer Identity Cloud Actions platform — is ideal for digital and marketing teams looking to gather customer data without overwhelming or frustrating their customers. For your developers and user experience teams, Forms for Actions’ no-code visual interface makes it easier than ever to build Identity flows tailored to their company’s unique needs.
Forms for Actions can help drive revenue (for example, by boosting your conversion rates) and secure authentication at every step. There’s huge potential for extending your Identity processes with progressive profiling, custom policy acceptance, or customised signup or login steps. These and other use cases are still to be explored and discovered.
Forms for Actions allows your developers to reduce the time they spend on a range of Identity flow tasks, allowing them to easily deliver streamlined customer experiences while reducing costs and time-to-market. You can find out more about Forms for Actions in this blog post from Okta’s Emily Ann Clemons.
More to come…
That wraps up the highlights for this first edition of Okta Launch Week for EMEA. We hope it’s been a useful summary of the major updates coming your way. Naturally, we’ve got plenty more in the pipeline, so stay tuned for the next quarterly edition of Okta Launch Week. In the meantime, find out more about Okta’s updates at our Launch Week hub.
