#LifeAtOkta

As the second installment to our ‘Day in the Life’ series, we recently spoke with Ryan Carlson, Okta’s director of product marketing, to get a taste for his day-to-day life at Okta, as well as what he finds most unique about the company and his role within it. If you like what you see and think you might have what it takes to join our growing team…

Today, we officially announced the Okta Partner Program, a crucial step forward in our mission to expand our partner ecosystem of system integrators, resellers, referral partners and ISVs. The program will extend the reach of our future-proof identity management platform, delivering immediate value to both our customers and the customers of our…

We are incredibly excited to announce our inaugural Okta User Conference: OKTANE13! Taking place November 3-5, 2013, at the InterContinental in San Francisco, OKTANE13 is an event you won’t want to miss. Join hundreds of IT professionals and industry thought-leaders for the premier identity, security and mobility event of the year. Whether you’re…

You might not know this, but we’ve got some pretty fascinating people working behind the scenes at Okta. We sat down with one of them – senior UX designer Brian Hansen – to discover what’s in the company’s special sauce, discussing what he does day-to-day, why he chose Okta and what drives him to come to work every morning (and no, we don’t mean…

Big changes are affecting the enterprise as increased cloud and mobile adoption pushes businesses further beyond the firewall — and IT is right in the middle. That’s why we’ve gathered senior IT leaders from Ralph Loura (CIO, Clorox), Carl Eberling (CIO, Encore Capital), Evan Trent (SVP, School of Rock) and Dan Willey (CIO, Wilbur-Ellis) for an…

I recently had the pleasure of speaking at, “HR 2.0: Dealing with Fast Growth in Technology,” about how technology companies (and their HR departments) can more effectively attract and retain talent. The rapid growth in the technology industry is exciting and staggering and has only been seen a few times in history. As Okta’s director of people,…

How can entrepreneurs build culture, and why is it important? That's the topic of the week on the Wall Street Journal's "Accelerators" blog, and CEO Todd McKinnon joins the discussion: Long-term success is not predicated on creating a world-class company culture. Many of the strongest technology companies today thrive because, in their earliest…

I recently kicked off a blog series about the importance of securing Layer 7, otherwise known as the application layer in the OSI model. It’s a critical part of Okta’s security program because Layer 7 is closest to our users, and also because Okta’s cloud-based IDM solution integrates with on-premises and external SaaS identity stories, mobile…

Our CEO, Todd McKinnon, recently sat down with Mike Abbott, general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, for a TechCrunch TV "Founder Stories" segment. Todd discusses what it takes to grow a successful company, tactics for hiring the right people and lessons he learned moving from engineer to CEO, to name a few. Head over to…

Are ex-entrepreneurs best equipped to succeed as venture capitalists? That’s the topic of the week over at the Wall Street Journal’s ‘Accelerators’ blog, and I weigh in: When Investing in CEOs, It Takes One to Know One. Successful VCs come in all shades but, in my mind, those who have started their own companies have a little something extra in…