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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

Automation

Automating the enrollment of servers in ASA is the best way to scale your infrastructure. This allows you to quickly manage all the servers across the board, along with the needed access per group and user. To make this happen, your infrastructure automation tools require a solution to allow your identity management to scale along with the infrastructure.

Using tools such as Hashicorp’s Terraform (https://www.terraform.io) gives your admins options to create baked-in solutions that are run as soon as new servers are spun up. This allows enrollment automation to happen based on the common usage and access grants that are needed for those servers.

Important note

Okta also has a certified Terraform provider. To learn more and implement it, please visit https://registry.terraform.io/providers/oktadeveloper/okta/latest/docs.

Perhaps you have a service that requires its own server for each customer. Customers can sign up for free and you need to be able to create...