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Wyndham Hotels and Resorts is a leading hospitality company that has faced multiple challenges in managing Identity and Access Management for its franchise users. To overcome these challenges, the company decided to adopt Okta Workflows — a no-code Identity automation and orchestration platform that simplifies the process of creating and managing…

Organizations everywhere are expanding access to their applications and systems, making it easier for employees to work from any device or location. While this has been a boon for productivity, it also creates new targets for threat actors. This has resulted in a new urgency for IT and security leaders to prioritize and enhance login security…

Last week, our CEO Todd McKinnon sat down (or rather, “hung out”) with Michael Krigsman to discuss tech valuations, the future of identity management, and cloud and mobile adoption trends on a recent episode of CXOTalk. Okta is in an exciting period of growth for the company, with hundreds of employees, thousands of customers, and a new round of…

Now, we know Valentine’s Day isn’t everyone’s favorite holiday. Not everyone’s a sucker for heart-shaped cards, flowers, pricey dinners and chocolate – we get that. Still, we like to have a little fun with the holiday - and a couple years ago we compared passwords to Valentine’s. This year we’re doing something pretty sweet with data from our…

A lot has changed since I joined Okta a little less than a year ago. We’ve doubled our customer base to 2,000+ enterprises, hosted Oktane14, our second annual customer summit, and announced a series of new offerings to securely connect more people, organizations, apps and devices. What hasn’t changed, though, is our focus on customer success. Our…

We’ve noticed something quite extraordinary happening on the Okta Application Network over the last few months: Microsoft Office 365 is quickly working its way to #1 – meaning the most commonly deployed application in our network of 4,000+. It’s also already the most used application (measured by raw number of authentications) across our 2,000+…

We had a great few days last week down at the Gartner Catalyst event. Definitely one of the most concentrated gatherings of people to talk about the challenges enterprises are facing around identity – and Okta got a very warm reception from many identity professionals looking for a new choice beyond just the traditional legacy solutions. As…

If you had any doubts that the shift to the cloud is now, read Aaron Ricadela’s post on Businessweek. The headline, “Oracle Losing Ground as More Business Look to the Cloud,” pretty much says it all. “I don’t want to do plumbing,” is how Robert Schmid, CIO at video game maker Activision, explains his preference for cloud-based apps as opposed to…

In the past couple of months, cloud computing has come to be lauded as a driver for U.S. jobs and economic growth. This past week, however, put the momentum of cloud adoption into a new, broader scale. In the news this week cloud service leaders like Salesforce.com begin to better bolster cloud architecture and streamline adoption and services,…