Okta For Good

This April, Okta celebrated Earth Week across our global offices. Consistent with our Dynamic Work strategy, we aimed for a celebration inclusive of employees in each office and remote workplace, every language and region. We included three key elements to our Earth Week: daily employee calls to action, in-person events, and virtual key notes. …

From the moment Okta for Good was founded, its mission became a core part of Okta’s purpose—and that mission has never felt more vital and urgent than it does now. Our world today is facing numerous challenges, from rising economic inequality and racial injustice to climate change and the ongoing global pandemic. These issues don’t occur in…

As we continue to hire through a building balanced teams lens, we’re focused on representation, not only across the company but at the team level. This requires us to specifically examine team imbalance in roles that have historically excluded certain people and communities. In 2021 we continued to educate our leaders on the measurable benefits…

  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…

Over the last several years, Okta for Good has invested millions of dollars into nonprofit technology ecosystems and made Okta’s products more accessible to nonprofits around the world. For example, just a few months ago we doubled the size of our donated product bundle, effectively enabling 80% of the world’s nonprofits to deploy Okta for free…

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…

Fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion in technology is critical to everything we do at Okta. Cyber security is centered around people, and the unique perspective each professional brings to the job gives us an essential view of the landscape that supports innovation and excellence—and enriches our organizational culture.  In order for us to…

At Okta, we believe providing opportunities in technology to historically excluded groups is crucial to building more equitable businesses and communities. That’s why we’ve committed to inclusive actions that empower young people to succeed in tech and build stronger communities worldwide. We’re highlighting the work that we do throughout Cyber…

I graduated from college in 2019 and was set on finding a job in the social good sector where I could combine my technical skills with mission-driven, equity-forward work. I wanted to combine my past experience working in the nonprofit space with my newfound love of computer science, but finding the right fit was a challenge. Then I found…

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…