#LifeAtOkta

We promised you that Oktane16 would be bigger than ever and we’re excited to announce this year’s keynotes. In addition to Okta’s co-founders Todd McKinnon and Frederic Kerrest, we have a great lineup of guest speakers which we’ll be revealing on the blog. Our first guest keynote? Brian Krebs-- investigative security researcher. Brian is a leading…

The Okta team is on the road this spring with our Identity and Mobility Forums! We recently returned from Dallas, TX where our customer Chris Dodds of Seventy Seven Energy, joined us onstage to share his journey with Okta. Below he shares his highlights from the Forum: From Chris Dodds, Cloud Architect at 77 Energy: Navigating the cloud-connected…

When we flip the page on our calendar at Okta and begin a new quarter, our engineers know it’s time to get creative! Our engineering hackathons bring friendly competition, collaboration and best of all, improvements for our customers and our own internal infrastructure. The hackathon couldn’t have come at a better time after all of our engineers…

The technology industry, specifically Silicon Valley, is a fast-paced environment where the minute you get complacent is the moment opportunity passes. Simi Hundal, Director of Field Sales for the West, understands the mentality needed to be successful in this industry and that understanding has sparked not only her career advancement, but also…

You can bet the farm that everyone from Okta involved in this year’s Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo had a great time. Every year, the Houston Rodeo gathers together nearly 2.5 million people and this year Okta got in on the action, because what could be better than bringing people together for a cook-off, concerts and some of the finest rodeo…

We recently held our latest Okta Community Ask Me Anything with Okta Group Product Manager, George Kwon. George tackled questions on provisioning approaches and best practices for customers. We’ve highlighted a few select questions and topics from the AMA below, ranging from how to best provision applications to how to add apps to the Okta…

Engineering is at the core of what we do at Okta each day — always focusing on customer success by delivering new functionality to make our customers successful. The members of the engineering team are on the front line in building great products and shaping the enhancements made to each component of Okta’s infrastructure. Okta just wrapped up its…

In a couple of weeks, companies from around the world will convene in San Francisco to talk about security. The annual RSA Conference will take place on February 29, and Okta will be there to discuss the important issues our industry — and our customers — are facing when keeping sensitive information secure in the ever-increasing digital war zone…

Okta’s customers are doing amazing things. From rearchitecting internal IT strategies to connecting to distributor and supplier identities, you are transforming business for the cloud and mobile centric world we live in today — and we want to share your story at our upcoming customer conference, Oktane16. I invite you to submit your speaking…

We’ve watched the ball drop and toasted the new year with family and friends (and maybe a glass of bubbly). While we’re putting together our list of goals and intentions for 2016, it’s also helpful to take a look back at our accomplishments and growth over the last 365 days. As CEO Todd McKinnon recently wrote, Okta had a tremendous 2015…