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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

Index

As this ebook edition doesn't have fixed pagination, the page numbers below are hyperlinked for reference only, based on the printed edition of this book.

A

Active Directory (AD) 6, 126

Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) 60

AD groups

Distribution groups (DGs) 36

Universal security groups (USGs) 36

using 36

administration

simplifying, with Okta Integration Network 63-65

Advanced Server Access (ASA) 6, 247

automation 274, 275

functioning 249, 250

overview 247-249

setting up 251

Agentless Desktop single sign-on (ADSSO)

setting up 59-63

AntiVirus 107

API access administration 234

authorization server 235-244

key rotation 244, 245

API Access Gateway, Okta 13

API Access Management 232

levels 232-234

reference link 234

API gateways 233

reference link 233

API keys 232

API product 223

App Integration Wizard

setting up, with SWA 69

Application groups 36

Application...