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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

Authenticators and enrollment

Authenticators are the actual methods and devices used to abide by the required factors to gain access. Okta has a section in the security menu called Authenticators where you can manage, add, and set up enrollment methods, as well as set policies for some of these authenticators.

When you land on the Authenticators page, you’ll be given an overview of all the current active authenticators:

Figure 4.1 – Default authenticators in Okta

Figure 4.1 – Default authenticators in Okta

Some of these authenticators are turned on by default when the Okta org is created by Okta. In this window, a quick overview is given of the Factor type, Characteristics, Used for scenarios, as well as Actions that can be taken when applicable.

In some cases, an authenticator can be used just for self-service recovery or used with authentication. Security questions and email authenticators are good examples of this.

Under the Factor type column, you can see what types that...