Multi-Factor Authentication

Your end users already carry multiple devices. Why not put them to use? That’s the thought behind multi-factor authentication (MFA), a solution leveraging multiple devices and factors to provide extra security: texting an authentication code to a user’s smartphone, for instance. Here’s what Okta has to say about this innovative authentication method.

Context + Access: How Identity-Driven Security Can Prevent Breaches in Your Business

It seems like every other day we see a new headline with the latest security breach or hack. From our favorite television services to the world’s largest banks, security is something we all have to worry about. Why are these breaches so prevalent? It’s simple: the walls we put up to protect our data no longer exist. And the security stack we’ve…

How to Set Up Identity Access Management for a BYOD Workplace

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…

Using Okta Adaptive MFA for PCI 3.2

PCI DSS, or the Payment Credit Industry Data Security Standard, is an industry regulation that applies to any company that accepts credit cards for payments processing. The goal of the standard is to establish best practices in securing consumer information to prevent broad scale breaches of credit card and personal information. As identity is…

Demystifying Digital Identity in the Age of Cloud Authentication

Identity may be a difficult-to-define concept that has stumped philosophers for centuries. But when it comes to security offline or online, the topic boils down to evidence and proof. What determines that someone is who they claim to be? In the physical world, that question is generally answered by people providing various forms of identification…

What's Next in the Evolution of Password Management?

Since the early days of computing, users have inputted passwords to prove their identities. Today, as computers have progressed to something in everyone's pocket, password management is changing. No longer is having memorized an over-long string of numbers and letters the hallmark of a sophisticated user. Instead, authentication at the cutting…

The Ultimate Checklist for Choosing a Multi-Factor Authentication Solution

We know that choosing a multi-factor authentication solution can seem daunting. After all, there are multiple competing providers offering cloud-based identity solutions —how can you determine which one best suits your company’s needs? The following checklist includes three critical questions organizations need to ask when selecting a cloud…

How the Okta Identity Cloud Helped the FCC Leave its Legacy (Programs) Behind

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…

3 Important Security Trends Affecting Cloud Identity

The fast-changing world of cybersecurity can be complex, with plenty of news to sort through to find out what will affect IT systems in the months—and years—to come. In terms of cloud identity, zooming out to see the big picture reveals three particular trends that are poised to make a huge impact on security: the Internet of Things (IoT), Big…

Preventing Credential-Based Attacks with Okta and Palo Alto Networks

Today's worker wants everything, anywhere, anytime, which has led to the rise of different types of accounts and identities such as cloud, mobile and other devices, e-commerce, and social networks, making identity management a lot more complicated. Now, user accounts are exploding in number and type, and in addition to being difficult to manage,…

Okta and Citrix Integration: Complete Access to Citrix, Cloud, and On-prem Apps

The shift to the cloud continues to accelerate. Enterprises of every size are adopting best-of-breed cloud apps at a faster rate than ever as they see this strategy accelerate their growth, minimize their costs, and streamline their processes. We built the Okta Identity Cloud to connect these organizations to thousands of pre-integrated…

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