Leading Identity Vendor Brings Its IT Products and Platform to Region
Stockholm — December 4, 2015 — Okta, the foundation for secure connections between people and technology, announced its presence in the Nordics, the third Okta office in Europe, led by IT veteran David Hyborn. Okta is a leading identity and mobility management vendor and gives its customers' employees, partners and customers access to best-in-class apps, devices and services – without sacrificing security. Thousands of organizations across the world already trust Okta to help them work faster, boost revenue and stay secure.
Based in San Francisco, Okta was founded by CEO Todd McKinnon and COO Frederic Kerrest in 2009. In the past six months, Okta was named the sole leader in identity management as a service by Gartner, launched a new multi-factor authentication product, Okta Adaptive MFA, closed $75 million in additional funding, and cemented its commitment to EMEA by opening an EU data center in Germany with failover in Ireland. Okta has thousands of customers, including Adobe, 20th Century Fox, LinkedIn and the Swedish founded Qlik. In the Nordics, Okta works through a partner network of system integrators and resellers, including, Coresec, Radpoint and Tieto.
David Hyborn to Lead Okta's Nordics Team from Stockholm
David Hyborn has been working in the IT sector for 20+ years, with leading roles at RSA Security, Dimension Data among others. Before joining Okta he was at CA, where he managed the business area Security covering the Nordics. David Hyborn is responsible for the general management of Okta in the Nordics, where the company plans to recruit both on the technology and the sales side.
"Organizations in the Nordics are moving rapidly to the cloud and mobile and their IT leaders are being tasked with both protecting critical information in those services and providing a valuable experience for their employees, partners and contractors. Okta uniquely uses identity information to give users access to the services they need, while still enforcing strong security protections.," said David Hyborn, Okta's regional sales manager. "I've been following Okta for several years, and I believe in the company's mission to improve the connections between people and tools to make companies more productive and secure. That's why I didn't hesitate to join and I'm looking forward to bringing that mission to enterprises in the Nordics."
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