Chris Niggel

Regional CSO, Americas

Chris is the Regional CSO, Americas at Okta, where he is responsible for corporate security compliance, third-party risk, and responding to customer security inquiries. Prior to Okta, Chris spent 6 years leading the adoption of Cloud Technologies at LinkedIn, helping them grow from 350 to over 6,800 employees. He started his career designing, developing, and delivering content management, system administration, and messaging solutions for customers such as Nestle, Cisco, AMD, Telus, and the US Department of Defense. He is also an active member of the Northern California ski community, where he volunteers with the Tahoe Backcountry Ski Patrol performing search & rescue, and teaching ski mountaineering & outdoor survival.

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The Power of Open: Why Okta Joined the OCSF Project

Identity is foundational for a successful move to the cloud and a key element of modern security. As an independent and neutral identity provider, Okta believes that technology delivers more value and security when it’s built to integrate and interoperate with other tools and software providers—which is why we’re a founding member of the Open…

How Okta Lifecycle Management Can Help with Audit and Compliance

At Okta, we run compliance differently. Most organizations place compliance under either the legal or finance team, who don’t work with their security team to ensure those controls are implemented effectively. At Okta, we use security to drive compliance. Compliance is complex and regulations are a moving target, with GDPR and other privacy…

How Okta Helps You Comply with PCI-DSS 3.2

As organizations continue to move critical services into the cloud, having strong, centralized identity becomes the foundation of a holistic security strategy. Continuing our efforts to support customers who use Okta to protect Cardholder Data Environments, we are pleased to announce that Okta has released a PCI-DSS Attestation of Compliance (AOC)…

Is Your Organization Ready for NIST/DFARS?

As the clock winds down on 2017, there are only a few weeks left for organizations to become compliant with the United States Department of Defense’s Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) regulation. In this post, we’ll walk through this new regulation and what your IT teams need to implement for your organization to achieve…

How Legal and IT Teams Can Work Together to Achieve GDPR Compliance

The clock is ticking for the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) enforcement date to go into effect on May 25, 2018, and many organizations are still working to ensure they’re fully compliant before the deadline. While the GDPR can seem intimidating at first, thoughtful planning can help your organization efficiently maintain compliance…

Advice for US-based IT Managers on GDPR Impact and Compliance

The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) is a European Union (“EU”) law, but it’s going to have a big impact on American businesses that collect and process personal data of EU individuals. While American companies may be familiar with its predecessor, the Data Protection Directive through the Privacy Shield and Model Clause programs, the…

How Okta is Modernizing Critical Government Identity Infrastructure

Today we’re excited to announce that Okta has received Moderate certification in the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). Okta’s achievement of the FedRAMP certification enables federal agencies to adopt cloud applications that simplify identity management. In addition, the achievement allows Okta customers to inherit the…

Keeping Your Data Safe At Home and Abroad: Okta Achieves ISO 27018

Imagine your typical weeknight: you come home for dinner, and maybe you check the mail, which is filled with unsolicited offers for new credit cards. While waiting for dinner to cook, you clear out the emails in your spam folder. And when you finally sit down to dinner with your family, the phone rings — surprise, surprise, it’s a telemarketer…

4 Tips to Make Security Compliance Not Suck

Do you trust your employees? You should! After all, they are your first line of defense. We can have all the fancy tools, but without employee support, we’re going to lose every time against the conniving hackers and phishing scams out there. Security compliance training is the best way to help educate employees on the real world vulnerabilities…