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In this guest post, Thoughtworks’ CISO Nitin Raina and Head of Security Architecture Nazneen Rupawalla share their outlook on the security landscape for 2025, including emerging risks and fresh approaches to confronting them. As security leaders, we’re always monitoring for new threats looming just over the horizon. To protect our business and our…

Maintaining a technology stack that scales to meet the needs of employees, partners, and customers is increasingly complex, yet the stakes for managing app and data access are higher than ever. The tools and strategies that chief information officers and IT directors implement for managing identities and access have a direct impact on security…

Each month, we’ll highlight one of the founders of Okta Ventures’ portfolio companies. You’ll get to know more about them and learn how they work with Okta. This month, we’re speaking with Paul Klein of Browserbase. To learn more about Browserbase’s recent Series A fundraising announcement, check out their launch here.   What is Browserbase and…

AI is at the peak of the hype cycle. Its exponential growth began in 2022 with ChatGPT being released. While ChatGPT’s freemium model brought its impressive capability to mainstream attention, what drives AI commercialization is the decreasing barrier of entry. Large-scale, open-source models based on readily available APIs are constantly being…

What’s the best way to bring generative AI to your products and services? If you’re lucky enough to have a few billion dollars lying around, your launch deadline is a handful of years away, and you have access to the world’s best artificial intelligence (AI) engineers, then you’re all good. You can create your own generative AI foundational model…

When I first tried an early generative AI tool back in 2019, I was amazed at what it could do. The prose it created was grammatically correct, fluent, and convincingly human. But I was more amazed by its potential, thinking, “If it’s this good now, how good will it be in a few year’s time?” Roll on to late 2022 and early 2023, and of course we all…

Beyond login: Why post-authentication security matters While solutions like Okta Verify FastPass have revolutionized the login process, the cybersecurity battle doesn't end at authentication. In our hyper-connected, cloud-first world, threats lurk everywhere in the digital landscape. Compromised credentials, session hijacking, and sophisticated…

Small and midsize businesses (aka SMBs) are the young, scrappy, and hungry companies that drive business change, leading the way in embracing new technologies. We know that's true for engineering, automation, and AI. But what about security? In our report, SMBs at Work 2024, we explore the dynamic digital landscape of SMBs today. Powered by…

Identity is foundational to modern security strategy. Identity-based attacks are on the rise, and most data breaches are caused by stolen credentials. With more than 18,000 customers and an Identity platform that performs billions of authentications every month, Okta is at the frontline of most of these Identity-based attacks. In the past month…

For business leaders today, there’s no hotter topic than artificial intelligence (AI). Executives everywhere are asking themselves — and each other — how AI will transform the products they offer, the ways they work, and the threats they face. Our new analysis, AI at Work 2024: C-suite perspectives on artificial intelligence, paints a picture of…