Peter Zavlaris

Product Marketing Manager

Peter has 10+ years of go-to-market experience in IT infrastructure as a service, cyber security, fraud & abuse, and identity & access management. Prior to Okta, he worked for the fraud and abuse company Smyte, acquired by Twitter in 2018. He is a bylined author with contributed articles for Dark Reading, HelpNet Security, Network World, and Wired.

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5 Reasons You Want an Out-of-the-Box Identity Service

Whether you’re building a new app or migrating a legacy app to the cloud, you face a choice: build everything in-house or selectively use out-of-the-box services to make the job easier and faster. Out-of-the-box services like Twilio, for messaging, and Braintree, for payments, have gained popularity because they help lean dev teams remain agile…

How Software Licensing Costs Are Eating Your Budget

Have you ever stumbled on a great airline deal only to find out there's an additional cost for checked luggage? Or signed up for a credit card offer with amazing perks, only to get stung by a higher-than-normal annual fee? You're not alone. It’s these experiences that remind us that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. …

We’re Living Through a Digital Transformation. Has Your Security Kept Up?

As organizations race to the cloud, a unique set of challenges has emerged in customer security, and customer identity is a hotspot. Some organizations will try to lift and shift their previous on-prem technology, patterns, and practices to the cloud, while others will attempt to build their own identity systems themselves. Both options introduce…

5 Approaches to API Security

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…

Want to Improve User Experience? Consider Adding an Identity Service

The bar for engaging customer experiences is constantly being raised by the Amazons, Googles, and Facebooks of the world. In order to measure up, organizations need developer teams that are creative, nimble, and efficient. They must deliver end-user experiences that are technologically advanced, frictionless, omni-channel, and relevant. But there…

From Storefront to Shopping Cart: 3 Lessons for Tesla’s New Sales Model

Tesla, the electric automobile manufacturer, in an effort to offer the Model 3 more affordably, announced that it was moving its retail business entirely online. Although they recently changed their mind on the depth of this change, they still appear to be putting more weight into their online strategy. So, as the identity provider of choice for…