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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

IdP discovery

IdP discovery can also be called IdP routing rules, which might be a more telling name. With these routing rules, end users can be routed to different IdPs depending on the context. The context can be, in this case, device-related, IP or network zone-related, or simply looking at the email subdomain. Rules can be set for each identity provider or combinations of user criteria. The rules are set in a hierarchy, and if there is more than one rule that matches the current situation, the topmost will be used. Let’s look into how to set this up.

The first prerequisite is that at least one IdP needs to be set up. Navigate to Security | Identity Providers. If you don’t have any set up, go back to the beginning of this section to set one up. Even without an additional IdP, you can still set up routing rules for networks, and if you have the IWA agent installed, you can set up rules for DSSO. The same goes for ADSSO. For both, an inactive rule is created once...