Evolution within the financial services industry has unlocked unlimited opportunities and solutions for consumers. Open finance—a global movement—gives consumers new and exciting ways to manage finances, from budgeting and investing to paying a bill or applying for a loan. As a result, financial institutions, 3rd-party providers, and fintech apps…

Every week, reports of cyberattacks hit the news. While these headlines primarily focus on for-profit businesses, nonprofits are not immune. In 2021, U.S. businesses and public entities suffered 26,074 incidents, with a total cost of close to $2.6 billion, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office.  Nonprofits make attractive targets…

At Okta, we take pride in ensuring our product features are developed with testability in mind, thoroughly tested, and continuous monitoring is implemented before reaching our customers. This blog post will describe some of the quality signals we use to ensure features are ready for customer adoption. Internal testing  Upon every approved pull…

Okta Workflows is a no-code platform for automating identity processes.  This blog post is based on a question asked during office hours or the #okta-workflows channel in MacAdmins Slack: How do you iterate over a JSON object to retrieve a path value?  Thanks to Bishal Shrestha, an Okta Administrator at Pinterest, who asked this question in…

Okta Workflows has just released a number of templates focused on Security Operations Centre (SOC) processes. In this blog post, you will learn about these templates.  Getting started Okta Workflows has just released a number of templates focused on Security Operations Centre (SOC) processes. These Workflow templates are designed to help solve…

In today’s digital world, customers and partners have no reason to tolerate poor user experiences, especially from legacy financial organizations. Millennials and Gen Z now form the largest adult cohort globally, and they expect streamlined, personalized, secure access to financial services. These technically literate consumers can and will switch…

CEO Todd McKinnon sent the following email to all Okta employees on Feb. 2, 2023: Hi Everyone, I have made the very difficult decision to reduce our global workforce by 5% or approximately 300 employees.  If you work in the US, you will receive an email in the next 15 minutes notifying you if your role is impacted or not. If your role is impacted,…

The Jetsons show the Flintstones their modern machinery (Image credit: The Movie Database) Have you ever heard the phrase “sometimes you have to go back to go forward”? As we at Okta look to modernize everything Identity and security, we also realize that we are beholden to our customers by helping them leverage existing investments. In the…

Last week Okta celebrated Data Privacy Week with a company-wide campaign to reinforce employee awareness of the importance of respecting privacy and safeguarding personal data. This got me thinking about how data protection and privacy have never been more relevant to individuals around the world. We’ve never spent more time online or been so…

Okta Workflows is a no-code platform for automating identity processes.  This blog post is based on a question asked during office hours or the #okta-workflows channel in MacAdmins Slack: What are the differences between three List functions: For Each, Map, and Reduce?  Getting started The List function has three cards to iterate over a list: For…