Industry Insight

In the United States, 35% of employees are now contractors or freelancers. And according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average length of time a person stays at one company decreased from 4.6 years in 2014 to 4.2 years in 2016. In an age of increasing short-term employment, it doesn’t always make sense to give employees access to…

In the past, work was done at your desk. IT provided the systems and devices, and everything was done with on-premise applications. Today, about two-thirds of businesses use third-party SaaS services, which is forcing work beyond the firewall, and the use of mobile devices is on the rise. To keep up, companies need to take control of these devices…

Identity may be a difficult-to-define concept that has stumped philosophers for centuries. But when it comes to security offline or online, the topic boils down to evidence and proof. What determines that someone is who they claim to be? In the physical world, that question is generally answered by people providing various forms of identification…

Regardless of exactly how data breaches occur, the culprit is almost always weak or stolen passwords. According to the Verizon 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report, they account for 81% of all breaches. The result of this, according to a new IDG survey sponsored by Okta, is that 74% of IT and security leaders have flagged identity and access…

Since the early days of computing, users have inputted passwords to prove their identities. Today, as computers have progressed to something in everyone's pocket, password management is changing. No longer is having memorized an over-long string of numbers and letters the hallmark of a sophisticated user. Instead, authentication at the cutting…

Mobile devices are now a critical part of doing business. In fact, the global mobile workforce is projected to account for 42% of the global workforce by 2020. According to a 2016 Gartner survey, more than half of employees who used smartphones at work rely on their personally owned smartphones, signalling that using personally owned devices in…

In today’s identity management climate, single sign-on (SSO) capability is critical to the success of enterprise identity and access management (IAM). IT departments face growing demands: managing thousands of users, both internal and external, who each need access to an increasing number of cloud-based applications. Adding to this complexity is…

The fast-changing world of cybersecurity can be complex, with plenty of news to sort through to find out what will affect IT systems in the months—and years—to come. In terms of cloud identity, zooming out to see the big picture reveals three particular trends that are poised to make a huge impact on security: the Internet of Things (IoT), Big…

Today, companies face a challenging world. Big breaches are constantly in the news, but many executives are underinformed about the realities of cybersecurity. Meanwhile, IT admins are overwhelmed with tasks such as conducting password resets. There are solutions for this situation—identity software among them—but effectively explaining their…

At Okta, we believe that nothing is more important than identity. And although we spend a lot of time discussing how our product connects and secures millions of identities, we know that each of those identities extends far beyond work, apps and devices. Your identity is who you are as an individual. That’s why I’m excited to share our “Identities…