Up until recently, most technology architecture has been monolithic, with services and code contained within a single large and complex application. Now, we’re increasingly seeing architecture broken into autonomous units—or microservices—built for specific individual functions. Microservices increase the agility and scalability of an organization…

Regardless of their industry or size, every organization is becoming a technology company—and consumer demand for convenience and ease of use is the leading cause. Organizations need to enable their customers to access their tools, products, and services while providing them with intuitive digital experiences. We know you’re responsible for…

The goal when implementing API security is to safely ensure the right people and systems have access to the right things to accomplish their task in the shortest time necessary. In this blog we’ll take a quick look at the pros and cons of the 5 approaches to API security described in greater detail within our white paper, API Security from…

In this episode of the Dogfooding Chronicles, we want to go into the basics, and navigate you through Okta IT’s own use cases at a high level, stepping you through our environment and processes. We want to orient you to understand why we make the technology choices that we do. Our hope? You find this information so helpful, you’ll use some of it…

For more than 20 years, I’ve been handling cybersecurity at BMC. I’ve got a lot of bumps and bruises to show for it, but I’ve also had the pleasure of seeing Okta and Netskope work together to help us build out an identity-first cloud security. As one of the largest software companies in the US, BMC faced a huge challenge when we moved to the…

Okta believes in the power of mission-driven organizations to change our communities and our world. It’s why we provide small nonprofits free licenses for Okta products, and why we make preferential pricing available for every organization whose mission is to help others. With the help of the Okta for Good program, global non-governmental…

We’re thrilled to announce Bill Losch, Okta’s Chief Financial Officer, was named a finalist in the San Francisco Business Times’ 2019 Bay Area CFO of the Year Awards, presented in partnership with Larkin Street Youth Services, an organization working to end homelessness for young people. The list recognizes CFOs who have made outstanding…

Claire Evans, host of YOU: Hey Siri. Are we friends? Siri: I’m your assistant… and your friend, too. In the latest episode of YOU, a podcast about the intersection of technology, humanity, and identity, brought to you by Okta, host Claire Evans examines how we’ve invited digital assistants, like Siri, Alexa, Cortana and Google Assistant,…

Anyone who’s ever had their account hacked knows firsthand just how vulnerable our digital identities can be. But having our identities jeopardized doesn’t have to be our fate. Instead, users can take a future-proof approach to protecting themselves from the onslaught of costly identity attacks—both in their personal and professional environments…

Today, Forrester, a leading independent analyst research firm, recognized Okta as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Identity-As-A-Service (IDaaS) for Enterprise, Q2 2019. In this report, the analysts evaluated vendors for both “market presence,” “current offering,” and “strategy” categories—and we’re proud to announce that Okta ranks the highest…