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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

Setting up group rules

Group automation, or group rules, can be considered the best way to simplify administrators’ work with Okta. Anything that requires setup and maintenance and is repetitive work can be automated with Okta’s group rules.

Setting up group rules allows you to manage your workforce in bulk including the following:

  • The user directory
  • Application provisioning and single sign-on (SSO) assignments
  • Security policy assignments
  • Directory and application group pushes

Because of the 360-degree view of a user in Okta and its assigned groups, administrators can easily deliver quick setup, automation, remediation, and application management when using Okta groups. By allowing users to come in from different sources and have their groups be added to Okta too, you can make sure the users are correctly assigned and managed by using Okta’s group rules.

The strength lies in the simple options for the multitude of functions to be...