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Recognizing Nine Leaders Who Went Above and Beyond At Okta’s annual Identity conference, we have an opportunity to celebrate all of our customers, but the winners of this year’s Oktane Customer Awards allow us to highlight leaders changing their industry—and ours. Building on the previous year of rapid change, 2021 required a willingness to…

New partnerships aim to bring secure customer identity to the platforms developers use every day in one click, or less Almost a decade ago, The New Kingmakers made reference to the rise of a developer class that would fundamentally reshape technology decision-making. Today, two-thirds of professional developers have a voice when their…

As we celebrate the 10th year of Oktane, the company’s largest annual customer event, I’m reminded that Oktane was also the birthplace of Okta for Good. It marked the beginning of Okta’s long-term commitment to social and environmental impact. This early pledge to give back to our communities has become so much more. Let’s take a look.  Our origin…

What a difference three years can make.  Since 2019, when we last came together in person for our annual Oktane conference, Okta has welcomed millions of new users, launched countless new features and integrations, acquired the authentication platform Auth0, and more than tripled our workforce.   But that was just the warm-up. Because this…

At Okta, our work is driven by collaboration, whether helping a 100-year-old company secure a hybrid environment, launching a new provisioning feature inspired by customer feedback, or supporting a non-profit with budget-friendly pricing. Every step we take is informed by the stories you­—our customers—share with us.  Oktane is a chance for us to…

Okta’s annual conference is an opportunity to celebrate all our customers, but the winners of the Oktane Customer Awards stand out for the sophistication and originality of their deployments in the face of major challenges in 2020. This includes scaling service delivery for thousands of online customers, or providing secure access to newly…

Nonprofits do society’s most critical work — and technology is essential to achieving and accelerating their impact. As demands of nonprofits continue to grow, gaps in technology are widening. Too many philanthropic funders regard technology and infrastructure as “overhead” as opposed to mission critical. These insights guided us as we launched…

Oktane21 marks our second all-virtual Oktane conference, and just over a year since we’ve seen our employees, customers, and partners in person. While we’re eager to safely gather in-person again someday soon, we’re also excited to bring you our most creative virtual Oktane experience yet. This year, we’ve unveiled a new centerpiece for the event:…

Every company that operates production software has compliance requirements. The vast majority of those organizations also carry significant infrastructure in the cloud and/or on-premises. And they all require a safe way to provide access to their developer workforce. Traditionally, there were two ways to achieve this: building a DIY system to…

Software powers your business. Infrastructure powers your software. To remain competitive in today’s fast-paced landscape, your applications need to be highly available and performant. To meet that demand, your systems need to be resilient and secure. When you add that up, it’s the Operations and Security teams that carry the responsibility of…