Opportunity: Better enable and empower the entire workforce and improve IT efficiency by scalably and sustainably automating Identity-related processes Airtable enables any team, regardless of technical skill, to create apps built upon shared data to power their most critical and unique workflows. Founded in 2013, the San Francisco-based company…

Earlier this year, the World Economic Forum shared its Global Risks Report outlining the top ten risks over the next decade. Amidst climate, societal, and geopolitical risk, the list also included “widespread cybercrime and cyber insecurity.” Cybersecurity challenges are clearly some of the most critical issues of our time. Not only are they…

  Update, 8 Feb., 2024: I’m pleased to announce that Okta has completed the acquisition of Spera Security,  an identity security platform, to expand our identity threat detection and security posture management capabilities. We aim to make the product generally available in spring 2024. We welcome Spera Security to Okta! We're excited to see what…

We are honoured to share that Okta is recognised by Gartner® as a Leader in their 2023 Magic Quadrant™ and are proud of our longstanding Leadership in this report. Okta has been a Leader in this report every year since the first Access Management Magic Quadrant™ was published in 2017.  Why we’re a leader again Okta's vision is to free everyone to…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) may be organising our social media timelines and automatically improving the pictures on our phones, but it’s a field that’s widely misunderstood.  AI is, after all, an incredibly complex field in computer science, where the top researchers earn as much as NFL quarterback prospects. It introduces terms seldom found in…

If you’ve ever taken an introductory programming class, there’s a good chance the instructor said: “Computers are stupid.” They only do what they’re told, and only within the confines of what can be represented in logic. The intent is to remind students that computers aren’t intelligent thinking machines — like Star Trek’s Data — but rather tools…

Patterns. The world is full of them, and we often don’t even notice.  Human language is a great example. We understand each other because things like verb conjugations and word order typically follow a rigid structure. The same is also true for music, where the predictability of rhythm and scales provide a measure of order and predictability.  If…

We’ve hit a tipping point in the battle between traditional financial institutions (TradFi) and financial technology (fintech) disruptors. Digital banking (led by fintech) has become ubiquitous, with nearly universal adoption —  eight in 10 consumers now use some type of digital financial tool, and half of Americans use fintech tools on a daily…

Zero Trust began as an abstract concept in 1994 and has evolved into an established security approach. More than 800 information security decision-makers around the world were surveyed to compile our latest report, The State of Zero Trust Security 2023. This report takes a detailed look at where Zero Trust adoption stands today, providing answers…

Security. It’s a hard business. I’m not just talking about the endless patching, monitoring, and training. The constant sprint to remediate when a new CVE (Common Vulnerability and Exposures) notification drops, or the lingering fears that you’ll be called back to the office on your downtime to deal with a crisis.  No, it’s hard because it’s not a…