Okta Ventures

Matthew Gregory, Ockam
Mrinal Wadhwa, Ockam

A builders guide to Trust in autonomous connected applications. We'll show how cloud services can establish lightweight secure channels with IoT and edge devices that guarantee end-to-end data integrity, authenticity, and authorization.

A demo will show how a fleet of machines can be enrolled with cloud services and how applications can exchange attribute based cryptographic credentials to ensure granular, dynamic, policy driven access control.

Sumit Sarkar, Immuta
Ryan Naughton, The Center for New Data
Paige Bartley

As the COVID-19 crisis deepens, so does the need for robust, data-driven research. That’s why the Center for New Data launched its Covid Alliance program in the early days of the pandemic, bringing together epidemiologists, virologists, policy experts, and data scientists to use data to understand the spread and impact of COVID to help shape public policy and health response. The goal of the project is to deliver sophisticated data analytics on highly sensitive data sets at startup speeds with public health scale. In this session, experts from the Center for New Data and Immuta will discuss the challenges associated with accelerating access to data while maintaining strong data governance, particularly when involving access to individual-level data.. The session will explore how the Covid Alliance is stitching together billions of data points from key government, proprietary, and public-use datasets and accelerating research-response cycles with researcher collaboration and government coordination while preserving privacy and ensuring compliance with regulations and contractual data rights. Presenters will look at how the Covid Alliance is leveraging Okta and Immuta to confidently authenticate a diverse set of users and authorize different levels of analyses while extending authorization not just to the database level, but to the row, column and cell-level.

Lital Asher, Hunters

Identity plays a central role in cyber attacks, and it offers a window of opportunity for organizations to detect and respond to security incidents in a timely manner. But finding attacks based on authentication data is hard: it requires knowledge, context, the ability to link authentication data to insight from other security and IT tools, and the ability to sort through mountains of false alerts. Extended Detection and Response - XDR - is an emerging security capability that was developed to connect data from multiple sources and apply out of the box detection and response modules to help security teams effectively identify and stop attacks.

Nate Callaghan, Okta
Weldon Dodd, Kandji

Zero-touch deployment gives new employees a streamlined, user-driven onboarding experience, but what happens when a team member is promoted to a new position, switches teams, or even moves on to a new organization? How do you empower them with the right access, apps, and tools throughout their journey? Streamlining the user lifecycle involves identity and device management (MDM) workflows working together to create a better user experience.

In this session, we’ll cover opportunities for automating components of the user lifecycle that are critical and often prone to friction or manual error. See a live demo of the connector Kandji developed to integrate our Apple MDM solution with Okta Workflows and get insight into common ways our customers are automating the user lifecycle to reduce friction and empower their teams.