Over the last few weeks, COVID-19 has impacted every facet of our lives: the way we work, interact with family and friends, and how we spend our time. While I wish we were together this week, nothing is more important to us than your health, and the health of the Okta team. I hope that as you attend your first ever digital Oktane (our first Oktane…

Your IT teams have some of the most challenging jobs in today’s enterprise. In particular, dealing with time-consuming manual work for internal business processes is a massive headache. And often, it’s identity-centric tasks that are the most complex and most time consuming. Out-of-the-box tools generally don’t have the flexibility or specificity…

Identity has come to play a critical role in driving secure digital experiences for both workforces and customer bases. With identity’s importance only growing, modern enterprises need an independent platform approach to centralizing identity. An effective identity platform must offer easy customization and extensibility to meet as many use cases…

We’ve been on a mission to embrace a passwordless future for quite some time, and today, we are excited to introduce Okta FastPass: the first truly passwordless login experience across devices and platforms, including iOS, iPadOS, Android, macOS, and Windows. The Problems with Passwords The average American has 150 online accounts that require a…

At last year’s Oktane, we introduced the Okta Identity Engine—a set of building blocks that serve as the foundation for any access experience. Through these customizable and extensible identity steps, enterprises can build access experiences tailored to their organizational needs. That is, they are not bound to any one way of identifying,…

It's clear to us all, we’re living and working in unprecedented times. COVID-19 has forced companies worldwide to be agile, adapting quickly to current events, changing the way they work, communicate, and plan for a puzzling future. But as we all adjust to this crisis, cybercriminals are taking full advantage, targeting both businesses and…

The entrepreneurial journey is often portrayed by the media as a glamorous transition from founding to funding to IPO. In movies and on TV, startups are buzzing innovation hubs with ping pong tables and kombucha on tap. Either that, or a company goes up in smoke, and then is profiled in a ruthless documentary series. But as every entrepreneur —…

Excited for Oktane20 Live? We are too! Wondering how exactly this live virtual conference thing works?? We’ve got you covered. In this post, we’ll share our tips and tricks for navigating Oktane20 Live and getting the most out of the digital conference experience. And if you missed our What to Expect at Oktane20 Live (Part 1) post that covered our…

Nothing is more important than the health and safety of the Okta community, so Oktane20 is going virtual this year—available to anyone, free of charge. We couldn’t be more excited to share our great lineup of speakers, trainings, and networking opportunities. Check out the full, updated agenda on oktane20.com. This year, former Secretary of State…

It’s no secret that we’re experiencing a dramatic shift in the way we conduct business, the way we manage our workforce, and the way we interact with our customers. As companies worldwide respond to the unprecedented effects of COVID-19, we’ve seen these changes play out in how organizations accommodate both their employees and their customers…