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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 the Okta dashboard

Okta gives users a great experience by having a dashboard that all the user’s applications are on. End users can arrange which apps go where and move them into different tabs to manage their environment even better. Okta’s dashboard allows end users to set their personal passwords in applications and change and update these passwords later on. We will go through this in more detail later in this chapter.

Depending on the settings, they can also add personal applications through the personal application store, which has over 5,000 applications. This only includes applications with passwords because end users cannot integrate Okta with other applications themselves.

Figure 3.9 – An end user’s application dashboard

Figure 3.9 – An end user’s application dashboard

Once a new application is added, the users will see a notification bubble after they get onto the dashboard. If they don’t read it, the notification will stay available in the menu...