SaaS Applications

Local accounts in cloud and SaaS apps — user accounts created directly within apps rather than through Okta — pose a significant risk to organizations. These accounts increase the attack surface, giving threat actors more opportunities to exploit vulnerabilities and gain unauthorized access to sensitive data and critical systems.  Security teams…

The cloud Identity sprawl has changed the rules of Identity Security. As organizations move to the cloud and embrace more and more SaaS apps, Identity has become a jungle of users, entities, permissions, and activity. Managing this growing complexity is hard: siloed Identity data, sophisticated configurations, and a lack of visibility.    …

Okta is known for its continuing innovation. We’ve been recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Access Management seven years in a row. We’re continuously introducing enhancements and products to improve Customer and Workforce Identity, but keeping track of all our innovations can be challenging. Enter Launch Week, our new…

Today, every company is a software company, and innovation is a top priority for everyone. In addition to their core business functionality, modern software applications must include features that everyone has come to expect as table stakes — like collaboration, sharing, and teams. However, when development resources are tight, the last thing you…

2023 was a big year for the Okta Customer Identity Cloud (CIC) Organizations product, which made its debut in April 2021. Adoption and product usage more than doubled. It led to a lot of learning and product investment. I’m excited to share our progress and what’s planned next. First, a quick recap on Organizations: Organizations provides the…

Organizations of all sizes are adopting more SaaS applications than ever. According to Okta’s Businesses at Work Report 2023, the average Okta customer uses 89 different applications. Driving a least privileged access approach for each of these applications becomes even more complex when teams have to take into account each application’s unique…

For today’s SaaS companies, the pressure to rapidly innovate and seamlessly scale is intense.  Evolving macroeconomic pressures mean SaaS companies need to do more with less. And every B2C innovation amps SaaS customer expectations. AI has further transformed the competitive landscape, presenting both an opportunity for product differentiation and…

At Okta, we continue to grow and evolve our integration points to make the Identity and Access Management (IAM) journey secure, scalable, and flexible. In addition to Single Sign-On, Lifecycle Management, Log Streaming, and Workflows integrations in the Okta Integration Network (OIN), we’re excited to introduce API Service Integrations, now…

Win Business Customers with Enterprise-Ready Identity TL;DR: Okta has launched the Okta Customer Identity Cloud, powered by Auth0, with support for two use cases: Consumer Apps and SaaS Apps. This article explores the SaaS Apps use case and capabilities, as well as how product and engineering leaders can accelerate growth with an identity solution…

As we approach the close of the fourth quarter, many of you will be evaluating the investments your company has made in the way of cloud computing and will consequently consider how to maximize these investments. Ray Wang and the Constellation Research team have jump-started the process for you with a new tool, “The Enterprise Cloud Buyer’s Bill…