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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

Setting up self-service options

Users have their personal dashboards to see and manage their applications. For applications integrated with SAML or OIDC, they would be automatically signed in when clicking on any of them. For SWA applications, where admins have set that end users will enter their own credentials, they will be prompted to do so the first time they click on an icon. Once they are logged in, Okta will ask whether the login was successful. If the answer is yes, the credentials will be stored. If not, the end user will be able to try again.

The end users can re-arrange their applications by simply clicking and dragging. To find applications quickly, you can arrange applications in different sections or simply use the search bar at the top of the page.

With the Add Applications feature in the dashboard for end users, they can add private applications or corporate-owned applications if this is enabled. Navigate to Applications | Self Service in the admin console. In...