Your brand is important. It’s a standard you uphold to communicate your company values and a message you’re sending to the world. Executing well on your brand means that you can efficiently apply your brand, voice, and design system to all of your user-facing properties and touchpoints. This includes publishing your logo, favicon, brand colors,…

One of the most stable, enduring industries you can name, at least in the developed world, is finance and banking. But there’s a major disruption coming, in fact, it’s already landed. Open Banking is revolutionizing the industry and threatening traditional banking models. At its most basic, this new model requires financial institutions to provide…

Customer expectations seem to grow more demanding by the day. Big brands are championing seamless digital experiences and similar businesses are expected to follow suit. But ease of use alone isn’t enough. Customers also want companies to protect their personal data in a way that doesn’t add friction to their platform. To square these customer…

Welcome to our Founders in Focus series, where each month we highlight one of the founders of Okta Ventures’ portfolio companies. You’ll get to know more about them and learn how they work with Okta. This month we’re speaking with Mike Fitzsimmons, CEO of Crosschq. What is Crosschq and what is your mission? Crosschq is a technology platform that…

As Okta’s Global Workplace Sustainability Manager, I’ve been able to marry my two passions: my family and reducing environmental impacts. As a mom of two, I’ve appreciated how Okta’s Dynamic Work strategy has empowered my work to limit overall environmental impact, and to help our employees reduce their impacts at home. Within my time at Okta, I…

As we continue to hire through a building balanced teams lens, we’re focused on representation, not only across the company but at the team level. This requires us to specifically examine team imbalance in roles that have historically excluded certain people and communities. In 2021 we continued to educate our leaders on the measurable benefits…

Have you heard the buzz around Open Banking? For anyone in the financial services industry, you should be more than familiar. Open Banking is revolutionizing consumer banking and redefining it as a customer-centric ecosystem for banks and third-party providers.  Driven by the European Union (EU) adoption of the revised Directive on Payment…

  The holidays are a time for giving, and that doesn’t just mean finding great gifts for your friends and family. It means thinking expansively about how we can give back to communities both locally and globally, and extending our generosity to those who are most in need of it. This is what nonprofit organizations do every day, all year long. So…

Large companies often deal with complex org structures that challenge both their IT and People Ops teams. We see, for example, large customers composed of multiple, independently-managed business units or regional offices operating independently from one another. These organizations face heterogeneous regulatory environments and tend to make…

At Okta, our customers are our pride, our purpose, and our priority. When they succeed, we succeed, and when they grow, so do we. We have gained our status as the world’s leading independent identity provider by working with a global community of brilliant customers to deploy more complex identity scenarios than anyone else—and we’re learning more…