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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

Factor types

Factor types are the way a user can authenticate in Okta. They deliver an indication of the strength of the authenticators that are used with that type. Factor types in Okta have been aligned with standards from NIST to make sure that the options and functionality will abide by strict governmental rules and guidelines.

Info

To read more on NIST and the Computer Security Resource Center (CSRC), please go to https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/Multi_Factor_Authentication.

Following the factor type standards, Okta has divided them into three categories. Let’s take a look.

Knowledge factors

These are authenticators of something you know. The most typical knowledge factor would be a password, which we all use every day. However, a pin code, an answer to a security question, or security phrase authenticators can be used as knowledge factors. In all cases, it requires the characteristic of user presence – the user proves they have control of the authenticator...