Zero Trust

The global number of cyber-attacks reached an all-time high last year and shows no indication of slowing down. In fact, cyber-attacks and data fraud are two of the top 10 global risks for this upcoming decade according to the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Risk Report. The National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) recently…

By now the whole world has heard that Jeff Bezos’s WhatsApp was hacked, leading to the theft, or exfiltration, of gigabytes of personal data. We don’t know what data the hackers stole, as the attackers, once finished with their operation, quickly deleted their tracks, destroying almost all of the tell-tale signs that they breached the phone. In…

Most of us are now familiar with the term “Zero Trust”, seeing it emblazoned on many a booth and bus at security conferences throughout the year. The term has certainly reached buzzword status, and with good reason: today, security leaders recognize more than ever the need to move away from a perimeter-oriented approach to security. But putting a…

Following the announcement of our extended integrations with VMware last week, we thought you might enjoy learning about some of the common projects we see joint Okta and VMware customers undertake, and how the existing integration and these recent improvements can help unlock more value for our customers. Okta and VMware work together to help…

To keep up with the rapid pace of innovation, organizations of all kinds and sizes are adopting DevOps practices to better automate the delivery and operations of software in the cloud. A cultural phenomenon that impacts people and process as much as it does technology, DevOps brings teams together with the goal of removing barriers – the…

In this episode of the Dogfooding Chronicles, we want to go into the basics, and navigate you through Okta IT’s own use cases at a high level, stepping you through our environment and processes. We want to orient you to understand why we make the technology choices that we do. Our hope? You find this information so helpful, you’ll use some of it…

The rise of user mobility and SaaS application adoption have drastically changed the landscape for access and security: more people are accessing more resources from more locations and more devices. Organizations must ensure that all users around the globe — whether remote employees, customers, partners, or contractors — can securely access data…

As new philosophies around network security arise alongside ongoing technological advances, forward-thinking companies are changing the way users interact with—and feel about—network security as part of their work day. People are the new perimeter Up until recently, network security relied upon a network perimeter—anything inside the perimeter…

At RSAC19, The Cloud Security Alliance hosted a discussion titled, “The Approaching Decade of Disruptive Technologies,” featuring security leaders from Duo, Centrify, Onapsis, and Okta’s own Executive Director of Cybersecurity Strategy, Marc Rogers. IOActive CEO Jennifer Steffens led the session with the intent of discussing what disruptive…

“We are what we repeatedly do“ is a common paraphrase of Aristotle—though if he were around today, his sentiment might be more like “we are what we search, click, or connect to.” As security professionals well know, there’s a lot to learn from how we use technology. The interactions between users, applications, networks, devices, and APIs all…