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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)
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Part 1:Getting Started with Okta
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Part 2: Extending Okta

Provisioning rich profiles

The capabilities in Okta to enrich user profiles within provisioning are big. One example of a feature that will help you is Okta Expression Language. It is based on Spring Expression Language (SpEL), with which you can transform and query objects at runtime. With Expression Language, you can make changes to attributes and reference them before storing them on the Okta user, or before sending them to an application for authentication or provisioning. There is a lot of information on this topic, and going through all of it is outside the scope of this book. What we will do, however, is look at the most commonly used categories and examples of them. If you have any other needs within your organization, you can find more information here: https://developer.okta.com/docs/reference/okta-expression-language/. To be able to look into these topics, we need some basic knowledge. All users have an Okta profile, independent of how the user is sourced. In addition to...