Enterprise Mobility Management

Okta enables users to securely access the applications they need, wherever and whenever they need them. Cloud app and mobile device adoption in the enterprise have created a world where people can work from anywhere, and enjoy incredible experiences that make them more productive. Employees are no longer sitting behind a proxy or firewall when…

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…

Today’s enterprises are experiencing a massive mobile migration. Global smartphone penetration is expected to reach 70 percent by 2020 and there will be almost 10 billion connected devices with the increasing adoption of smartwatches, IoT, VR and AI. This array of new technology is changing how people work. So we traveled around the world — to…

Today, there are more than 20,000 different types of Android devices in the wild! And because of the open nature of Android, these devices are far from uniform. In an effort to differentiate their devices, hardware manufacturers and carriers customize their Android devices with management APIs, security controls and custom email applications. This…

Today Okta announced we will support contextual access management with Box for EMM. This new integration seamlessly connects end users to their Box data on mobile and enforces contextual access policies that secure Box at every endpoint. With Okta and Box for EMM, users now have one touch access to the files needed to do their job, and IT…

Learning to play a new instrument or finally nailing that expert guitar riff takes time and patience. And along the way, it doesn’t hurt to have a great teacher or mentor to help you reach your goals. With more than a decade of successful experience teaching music, School of Rock is the global leader in music education helping to turn musical…

Google Apps for Work has become wildly popular because it solves so many collaboration, communication, and support problems for businesses of all sizes. Small companies love it because it’s a quick, easy way to set up email and share documents. While large companies like LinkedIn, Avago and Tarmac also embrace Google Apps email and collaboration…

2015 has been a tremendous year for Okta, and for the technology industry at large. While I'm proud of what we've accomplished as an organization, I'm even more excited about the success of our customers and the ways in which they're leveraging Okta to securely connect their employees, partners, customers and consumers to the tools they need. The…

2015 was a year of milestones at Okta. To name a few, we grew significantly, updated our look and feel and celebrated our customers at our most successful customer conference to date, Oktane15. We also rolled out the new Okta Community, the one-stop shop for users around the globe. COO Frederic Kerrest put it best when he described our Community…