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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
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Part 2: Extending Okta

Using Single Sign-On for a Great End User Experience

Single sign-on (SSO) is a very end user friendly feature. But it also has great security benefits that will make any IT administrator happy. Bringing all authentication into one place doesn’t only make it easier for end users; it also delivers a single pane of glass for administrators with ease.

In this chapter, we will look at Okta’s SSO functionalities and how they will help your end users. We will look at how you can utilize the Okta Integration Network (OIN), but before that, we will look into the different connections you can make with various applications. We will also look at the difference between Okta and application-initiated sign-on flows, as well as IdP discovery.

We will look at the following topics in this chapter:

  • Using single sign-on with Okta
  • Using Fastpass for easy sign-on
  • Using the Okta dashboard
  • Setting up Agentless Desktop single sign-on
  • The Okta Integration Network...