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Every week, reports of cyberattacks hit the news. While these headlines primarily focus on for-profit businesses, nonprofits are not immune. In 2021, U.S. businesses and public entities suffered 26,074 incidents, with a total cost of close to $2.6 billion, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office.  Nonprofits make attractive targets…

Meaningful change can only happen if it's driven alongside our partners and communities. This holiday season, Okta is uplifting the missions of 12 nonprofit partners working to solve the most critical issues in our global communities, including workforce development, the digital divide, racial equity, and critical local needs.  During this season…

  The holidays are a time for giving, and that doesn’t just mean finding great gifts for your friends and family. It means thinking expansively about how we can give back to communities both locally and globally, and extending our generosity to those who are most in need of it. This is what nonprofit organizations do every day, all year long. So…

At Okta, we believe that nonprofit organizations should have access to the same best-in-class technology as leading enterprises. These organizations do society’s hardest work, and they deserve to be empowered with leading technologies to protect their extremely vulnerable data. This premise is at the heart of Okta for Nonprofits, which has donated…

Nonprofits do society’s most critical work — and technology is essential to achieving and accelerating their impact. As demands of nonprofits continue to grow, gaps in technology are widening. Too many philanthropic funders regard technology and infrastructure as “overhead” as opposed to mission critical. These insights guided us as we launched…

As we kick off the new year, Okta for Good’s mission to strengthen the connections between people, technology, and community has never been more critical. In the face of issues like the COVID-19 pandemic and pervasive racial injustice, we are entering 2021 with a profound sense of urgency to invest in civil society around the world. Leveraging…

It has been an unexpected year. From COVID-19 and global calls for racial justice, to catastrophic fires from Australia to the West Coast of the U.S., we are living in unprecedented and challenging times. We are seeing continuous, urgent, and growing needs across the globe.  For many of us, the last few months have been a difficult journey, but…

Nonprofits do society’s hardest work. They serve our most vulnerable people, protect our most precious resources, and advocate for our most worthy causes. In short, they strive to make the world a better place for all of us. That’s why Okta is committed to enabling nonprofits to leverage the world’s best technology. It’s also why every nonprofit…

Some people are unaware that the late visionary Steve Jobs was actually a college dropout and went through a time where he despaired that he lacked any direction in his life. He once gave an incredible commencement address about how pivotal life events can be viewed as a series of connected dots. Hindsight is always 20/20 and, looking back, it is…