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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
8
Part 2: Extending Okta

Fundamentals of API Access Management

Using APIs is beneficial because they are automatable and can be programmed to do what is needed. In many cases, APIs are used by users to help their work be more automated and remove repetitive tasks. By connecting the APIs from different applications, users can see their data in different places, interact with it, and manipulate it where they want and how they like.

On the other side, developers and IT might invest in creating custom services and/or applications to make their lives, or that of their colleagues, better. Creating these applications usually entails adding APIs to open up data streams to collect and bring it all together.

Lastly, if your organization’s business model is to build services or web products, chances are they’ll be using APIs to connect to other applications, partners, systems, and so on.

All of these APIs require different needs, approaches, and management.

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