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Splunk’s mission is to make data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. And there’s big value at the intersection of data and identity. In a great post on Splunk’s blog, “Splunk SSO using SAML through Okta,” the company describes its integration with Okta to improve the user experience. “As part of our ongoing efforts to make Splunk’s…

For financial service companies, moving to the cloud can be daunting given heavy regulation and compliance and security requirements. But Encore Capital isn’t shying away from the cloud. The financial service company is strategically implementing cloud-based applications to improve employee productivity and satisfaction. We recently sat down with…

Jeff Sutton, enterprise IT manager at Box, recently sat down with us to discuss all things Okta — from what first drove Box to looking for an identity management solution to his experience with customer support during implementation. To hear our full interview with Jeff, watch the video below or on our website. What drove you to look for an…

Edmunds.com is the online resource for automotive consumers, enthusiasts and insiders. To keep up with their many users and the rapidly growing list of services and technologies Edmunds’ employees need to do their work, the company brought on a multitude of cloud-based applications last year. It didn’t take long for Phil Potloff, CIO at Edmunds…

In enterprise software and services, there’s one thing you can always count on: vendor marketing teams delivering glossy customer case studies. Well, Okta does those too, we can’t lie. But ours are better. The best customer case studies are those done by third parties. Forrester Consulting recently spent time analyzing identity management at…

Passwords are a problem. The most secure passwords are robotic, nearly impossible for humans to remember and can lead to high IT costs through password resets or, worse, can pose serious security risks as employees take shortcuts to remember them. Imagine that familiar sight of a password pasted to a desktop with a Post-It note. In a recent…

More on Password Debate In a piece for Wired, Robert McMillan lays out our long, conflicted relationship with the password. What started as an easy solution to access our lives online has spiraled out of control. We are now forced to remember more passwords than ever, many containing nonsense symbols and a mix of capital letters and numerals. What…

The way we work at home is changing. Back in the day (way back), a typical work day would look something like this: You’d come in to the office, fire up your desktop computer, go get some coffee while you waited the 5 minutes it took for your machine to boot up, sign on to your network, launch some software running on the company’s network, do…

I was thrilled to appear with Box.net CEO & co-founder Aaron Levie yesterday during his keynote at BoxWorks, the company’s user conference. What better place to talk about our vision for a cloud-first world, lead by a new generation of IT, than BoxWorks, a fantastic gathering of vendors and users who are all committed to building smarter…