AWS

Today, at our annual Partner Summit, Okta recognized 30 partners from around the globe as Identity innovators, growth accelerators, and customer champions.  “At Okta, we view our partner ecosystem as a force multiplier. That’s why we’re putting our partners at the heart of our growth and innovation strategy,” said Bill Hustad, Senior Vice…

You can now deploy fine-grained authorization (FGA) in several AWS regions with high availability and requests per second because Okta Fine Grained Authorization is available as an AWS private cloud deployment option. Authorization is where authentication was a decade ago. We aim to simplify authorization for developers, just as we did with…

As cyberthreats continue to rise and businesses increasingly migrate to the cloud, safeguarding sensitive assets is paramount. Ensuring the protection of sensitive data has become a top priority for every kind of organization. privileged access management (PAM) and cloud infrastructure entitlements management (CIEM) emerge as crucial security…

Today at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, AWS announced their Amazon Security Lake which lets you build a security data lake from integrated cloud and on-premises data sources as well as from your private applications. With support for the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) standard, Amazon Security Lake reduces the complexity and costs for…

Okta's integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) allows end users to authenticate to one or more AWS accounts and gain access to specific roles using single sign-on with SAML.  Here’s how you can further secure this integration with multi-factor authentication (MFA) access using Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) and dynamic session tags. By…

Earlier this year I wrote that, in 2021, government security leaders need to adopt a true Zero Trust framework—an approach that ensures the right people have the right level of access, to the right resources, in the right context. And that access must be assessed continuously—all without adding friction for the user. Meanwhile, it should add as…

Millions of companies – including many Okta customers – rely on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to power their businesses. According to 2020's Businesses@Work Report, AWS has risen steadily from sixth place five years ago to the second most popular cloud app used by Okta customers. As companies increasingly use AWS to power their infrastructure, they…

Millions of users across an array of enterprises depend on the cloud infrastructure of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the seamless convenience of Okta Single Sign-On (SSO) to power their web and mobile platforms. The demand for cloud-enabled identity and access management (IAM) has exploded across the business landscape. And as organizations move…

In our first blog, we asked you to consider finally breaking up with Active Directory (AD), and to ponder why you’ve tolerated its limitations and shortcomings for so long. Ask yourself: what other technology in your IT stack was designed 20 years ago? In this post, we’ll break down all the benefits of moving off of AD, and why it’s worth it to…

For our third edition of The Production Line, we’re looking at something old, made new again with the LDAP Interface. In essence, it’s a hybrid IT game changer. If this sounds like hyperbole, note this customer quote: “[with the LDAP interface] we could finally get rid of our Lotus Notes server.” And although it spent some time cooking in Early…