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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

Automating Using Lifecycle Management

In this chapter, we will look at how we can use some of the knowledge we gained in previous chapters for a complete user lifecycle. We will look at how we can use integrations for user provisioning, such as setting up a Human Resources Information System (HRIS) as a sourcing service. We will also dive deeper into editing a user’s profile, for instance, with expression language.

For the groups we learned about in Chapter 2, Working with Universal Directory, we’ll now learn how to use automation to get them to work for us.

By automating the on- and offboarding flows, we not only save time for new hires, HR, administrators, and system owners – we also increase accuracy, but most importantly, security. This is done by making sure tasks aren’t skipped or forgotten by using automation.

These are some of the skills you will learn:

  • Automating user provisioning
  • Provisioning rich profiles
  • Setting up group...