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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

Automating user provisioning

In Chapters 2, 3, and 4, we discussed topics that describe individual elements of the user provisioning process. In this chapter, groups, directory integrations, application provisioning, and so on will all come together for complete onboarding and offboarding. Let’s look at how we can put it all together.

As we mentioned in Chapter 3, Using Single Sign-On for a Great End User Experience, there are different kinds of integrations available in the Okta Integration Network (OIN), and many of the applications have Systems for Cross-Domain Identity Management (SCIM) possibilities. SCIM is an open standard for managing user identity information. With SCIM, there is a defined schema and a REST API for Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations. To put it more simply, SCIM is a protocol for storing user information in a way that identity data can easily be shared with multiple applications.

Let’s look at it with an example. If an end...