security

People create and exchange confidential, valuable information in SaaS tools daily, and admins are responsible for managing content from tens of teams and hundreds or thousands of users. That means IT teams need to support new, hybrid ways of working to maintain secure and efficient collaboration. To support this growing need, Okta and Miro…

This blog post is the second in a series focusing on credential phishing. Previously, in the blog The Need for Phishing-Resistant Multi-Factor Authentication, Mukul Hinge explained how threat actors are becoming more sophisticated, using various tools to overcome mitigations. Today’s post digs into the inner workings of Okta FastPass, explaining…

Part one of a multi-part series “Identity is the perimeter of security.” I was introduced to this phrase in 2012 after my manager returned from a conference. He scrawled that phrase at the top of the whiteboard in his office, and there it stayed until I eventually moved on from that organization in late 2013. Though I had already spent seven years…

You may be curious to find out how products and solutions are developed, implemented, adopted, and operated. The history of standards is a fascinating place to start.  Standards are well-defined, abstract interfaces that enable industries to develop and thrive. These interfaces ensure ecosystem players with different roles can work together and…

80% of the organizations are operating a hybrid IT model, according to the 2022 Flexera State of the Cloud Report. For many of these organizations, identity is playing a pivotal role in simplifying IT operations, enabling superior end user experience, and upholding security posture. Innovators such as Avery Dennison are using Okta Access Gateway…

Passwords are a fixture of our modern digital world that cause no end of frustration and angst. I am sure this scenario is a familiar one: ‘Incorrect password, please try again’<forgot password>‘Please enter a new password’<input incorrect password (because, hey, it wasn’t the right one anyway)>‘The password you have entered has…

Security lives at the nexus of “vitally important” and “constantly changing,” which means lots of opportunity and just as many challenges.  David Bradbury, Okta’s chief security officer, keeps his eye on both Okta’s own security and the overall security landscape — making him an ideal resource for understanding current security best practices and…

Organizations today face increasingly diverse and sophisticated cyber threats. This work is bigger than any one entity; it forms part of a collaborative global initiative to make the internet a safer place. For Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we’re going behind the scenes with some of Okta’s Cyber Security Advocates, a talented group of…

Okta helps organizations manage identities through a modern, Zero Trust approach and a vendor-agnostic platform that easily integrates with critical applications in the cloud or on-premises. One app that remains important to both commercial and public sector organizations is Office 365, also known as Microsoft 365. It is one of the most popular…

With the expanding scope of cyberattacks on financial institutions and a substantial increase in fraud, government and industry oversight bodies are stepping up with new regulations and requirements to protect consumers. One of the most recent examples are the updates to the Gramm-Leach Bliley Act (GLBA).  After 20 years of regulating information…