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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about UD and what we can do with it. We looked at how to integrate with existing directories, and you now have a good understanding of how to install and configure the different agents you might need. We also looked at the different kinds of users that Okta handles, and how to work with their attributes using profile sourcing. Then, we took a deep dive into the different types of groups available, and how to use them to make workloads easier – for instance, for assignments. Additionally, we highlighted some best practices for when you set up and work with your groups. Lastly, we described the Devices section and how it can be interpreted and used from an administrator’s perspective.

In the next chapter, we will dive into Okta’s SSO capabilities, showing how to utilize OIN and custom applications.