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For many companies, creating an “enterprise-grade” product is the ultimate dream: Build an early version to fit smaller organizations’ requirements, demonstrate market viability and, finally, scale to larger customers. To be sure, that process of building an enterprise-grade SaaS product – and growing into a stable company that can support it – is…

At Andreessen Horowitz’s recent annual investor meeting, Benedict Evans delivered a presentation titled “mobile is eating the world.” In it, he pointed out that mobile isn’t just “mobile” anymore – we use mobile devices everywhere, not just while we’re on the move. At Okta, we’ve always been very mindful about simplifying and securing the end-to…

It shouldn’t be news to anyone that Apple held its annual developer's conference, WWDC, last week here in San Francisco. These events have become synonymous with awe-inspiring keynotes and product launches. They interest everyone, from music junkies – naturally since Apple Music was in the spotlight this year – to companies like Okta that are…

Our quarterly hackathons are one of our favorite ways to drive innovation, push outside of the daily grind and evolve our service. With the introduction of two new categories, drones as prizes, 37 participants and 14 projects developed in just 72 hours, our May event was no different. Like in our previous hackathons, we recognized first-place and…

When we started Okta, we chose to integrate with a handful of applications: Salesforce.com, Box and Google Apps. (Microsoft Office 365, which recently surpassed Salesforce.com as the most commonly deployed app in our network of now 4,000+ applications, didn’t even exist.) As it turns out, we invested with the right ones – as those “original three”…

We joke that ‘there’s an app for that’ for nearly everything you can think of today (and some things you probably haven’t thought of yet) – but the numbers don’t lie. Apple announced that there were more than 1.4 million apps in the App Store as of January 2015. There were more than 9 million registered developers by Apple’s Worldwide Developer…

Usable security. Does it exist? That’s a question our CEO Todd McKinnon recently sat down to discuss with a16z’s Michael Copeland and Pindrop Security’s co-founder and CEO Vijay Balasubramaniyan. Whether it’s through an experience that’s almost invisible in a user’s workflow or the promise of simple security with an added authentication layer,…

“This is my slide to prove we’re growing fast.” That’s how I kicked off my keynote at DEMO Traction last week – and for good reason. I’d argue there's no better way to capture the attention of a conference obsessively focused on growth than to share that Okta has achieved more than 100% year-over-year revenue growth. What lessons did I share with…

If you happen to be at RSA this week, you’re likely to encounter all sorts of acronyms – including CSA, MDM, CISO, MFA, CCSK… the list goes on. Keeping up with all these acronyms is one thing – and trying to keep up with the latest technology is an entirely separate task. As we look at the proliferation of mobile devices – and additional security…

This post was co-written by Simon Thorpe, who works on Okta’s product team and Slalom Consulting’s Rick Koppin (Director of Slalom’s Technology Enablement practice) and Daniel Chiang (Solution Principal, leading Slalom’s Information Security and IT Optimization practices). Daniel and Rick have a combined 20+ years of experience successfully…