Lifecycle Management

Every time you hire a new employee, a number of things must happen across HR and IT teams to get them access to the systems and tools they need to do their job. At the core of these onboarding processes is your company’s identity management (IDM) system, which monitors your employees’ lifecycles from beginning to end—every hire, role change,…

  For our second edition of The Production Line, we’re going back to the future with Automations. Introduced in February of 2019, this Early Availability (EA) feature is currently the most popular EA selection since we added self-enablement options for super admins, so let’s dig in! What are Automations? The Automations feature impacts three areas…

At Okta, we run compliance differently. Most organizations place compliance under either the legal or finance team, who don’t work with their security team to ensure those controls are implemented effectively. At Okta, we use security to drive compliance. Compliance is complex and regulations are a moving target, with GDPR and other privacy…

Tesla, the electric automobile manufacturer, in an effort to offer the Model 3 more affordably, announced that it was moving its retail business entirely online. Although they recently changed their mind on the depth of this change, they still appear to be putting more weight into their online strategy. So, as the identity provider of choice for…

The benefits of implementing identity and access management (IAM) speak for themselves. Having a centralized IAM solution means fewer passwords, a better end user experience, and a centralized solution for managing access to both cloud and on-prem apps and services. Despite this, investing in identity and access management is not top of mind for…

Star Trek fans: It’s time for your IT department to boldly go where no IT department has gone before.... For years, the head of IT played the role of Scotty, the long-suffering engineer aboard Captain Kirk’s starship Enterprise. The job was to keep the engines running while the folks on the bridge came up with the strategy. As today’s companies…

“The only constant in life is change.” While this quote dates back some 2,500 years ago to Ancient Greece, it perhaps ring true now more than ever—particularly with the speed and scale at which we’re witnessing technological change. Over the past few decades, the way we live, work, and communicate has been reshaped by our rapidly-transforming…

Monday, August 28, 2017 marked the first compliance deadline for the New York Department of Financial Services' (NYDFS) cybersecurity regulation 23 NYCRR 500. For those of you in organizations regulated by the DFS, you probably already know 23 NYCRR 500 was first implemented in March last year with the goal of establishing minimum security…

With the increased adoption of cloud services, and in order to keep pace with innovation and the requirement for every organization to develop applications, IT is facing some new and complex problems. IT teams today are constantly striving to improve productivity and security for both their own internal processes, but also for end-users, who are…

Adapting to changes in technology can be a challenge for government agencies with a host of legacy systems, sprawling on-prem infrastructure, and industry stakeholders and private citizens to serve. For the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the situation was no different. Founded by Congress in June 1934, the FCC came into existence before…