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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)
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Part 1:Getting Started with Okta
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Part 2: Extending Okta

Overview of devices

With the Devices section in UD, organizations can get a better picture of which devices have access to Okta. It adds end user context and can be used in contextual-based access policies. Lastly, the use of Fastpass provides an opportunity to leverage a passwordless experience on an Okta-connected device. Fastpass will be discussed in more detail in Chapter 3, Using Single Sign-On for a Great End User Experience. It’s important to note that this is not a replacement for any mobile device management (MDM) system. It’s a function to connect a certain device to Okta and cross-connect that device to a user to give more security to the organization. Let’s discover what we can do.

Registering a device

An administrator can’t register a device in the Okta administration portal. Instead, the device is registered when a user uses a device to enroll with Okta Verify. If you navigate to Directory > Devices, you will see a list of all devices...