Okta’s annual conference is an opportunity to celebrate all our customers, but the winners of the Oktane Customer Awards stand out for the sophistication and originality of their deployments in the face of major challenges in 2020. This includes scaling service delivery for thousands of online customers, or providing secure access to newly…

Our customers often tell us that one (of the many) things they love about Okta is our admin experience. They love having a single place to orchestrate all identity and access management needs. No more jumping between different tools and screens to manage users or secure their access. They love the simplicity of our out-of-the-box configurations…

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are laws that emerged to give individuals greater power over their personal information. Both regulate organizations that collect and use data in a variety of ways. A brief summary of the CCPA: Gives California residents increased transparency and control…

Every year, vendors, solution providers, and practitioners are asked to absorb and utilize new technology, requirements, regulations—and new problem statements. And while this constant change attracts many of us, it can be daunting to find a consistent thread that pulls it all together. At Okta, we believe one of those threads is an identity…

Being authentic is a high term of praise—if we think people are authentic, we believe them to be trustworthy, loyal, and dependable. There's a similar concept in computer security. Business networks are crucial to protect, so firms want only authorized people accessing them. In cybersecurity, authentication means verifying that a person or device…

Nonprofits do society’s most critical work — and technology is essential to achieving and accelerating their impact. As demands of nonprofits continue to grow, gaps in technology are widening. Too many philanthropic funders regard technology and infrastructure as “overhead” as opposed to mission critical. These insights guided us as we launched…

Oktane21 marks our second all-virtual Oktane conference, and just over a year since we’ve seen our employees, customers, and partners in person. While we’re eager to safely gather in-person again someday soon, we’re also excited to bring you our most creative virtual Oktane experience yet. This year, we’ve unveiled a new centerpiece for the event:…

Every company that operates production software has compliance requirements. The vast majority of those organizations also carry significant infrastructure in the cloud and/or on-premises. And they all require a safe way to provide access to their developer workforce. Traditionally, there were two ways to achieve this: building a DIY system to…

Since the 2000s, companies have turned to Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) software to achieve automation and compliance outcomes. But the traditional IGA systems we’ve come to know have been costly, complex, and designed for on-premises applications and infrastructure. They simply don’t meet the needs of today’s dynamic, remote…

Software powers your business. Infrastructure powers your software. To remain competitive in today’s fast-paced landscape, your applications need to be highly available and performant. To meet that demand, your systems need to be resilient and secure. When you add that up, it’s the Operations and Security teams that carry the responsibility of…