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Okta Administration Up and Running - Second Edition

By : HenkJan de Vries, Lovisa Stenbäcken Stjernlöf
Book Image

Okta Administration Up and Running - Second Edition

By: HenkJan de Vries, Lovisa Stenbäcken Stjernlöf

Overview of this book

Identity and access management (IAM) is a set of policies and technologies used to ensure an organization’s security, by carefully assigning roles and access to users and devices. This book will get you up and running with Okta, an IAM service that can help you manage both employees and customers. The book begins by helping you understand how Okta can be used as an IAM platform, before teaching you about Universal Directory and how to integrate with other directories and apps, as well as set up groups and policies for Joiner, Mover, and Leaver flows. This updated edition helps you to explore agentless desktop single sign-on (SSO) and multifactor authentication (MFA) solutions, and showing how to utilize Okta to meet NIST requirements. The chapters also walk you through Okta Workflows, low-/no-code automation functionalities, and custom API possibilities used to improve lifecycle management. Finally, you’ll delve into API access auditing and management, where you’ll discover how to leverage Advanced Server Access (ASA) for your cloud servers. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to implement Okta to enhance your organization's security and be able to use the book as a reference guide for the Okta certification exam.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
1
Part 1:Getting Started with Okta
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Part 2: Extending Okta

API Access Management

So far in this book, we’ve looked at Okta’s fundamental functionality. When we looked at giving users access, it was to applications. In this chapter, we’re taking a step into more advanced features, such as the application programming interface (API) management of Okta and access to the APIs of external applications. This can be for an organization or Okta’s APIs, as well as access to self-developed OpenID Connect (OIDC) applications. This is not a feature that every organization needs, but it’s a feature that gives that little extra to the organization that needs it.

In this chapter, we will look at the following:

  • API terminology
  • Managing Okta with APIs
  • API access management fundamentals
  • API access administration