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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

Summary

In this chapter, we pieced together things we learned in previous chapters, and with that looked at how a complete user provisioning lifecycle can work. We looked at how using your HR system as a source brings extra power to your IT resources and reduces friction between HR and IT. We also went through how you can work with mapping from different applications and directories, as well as introducing referencing and changing attributes with Expression Language. Further, we looked at the capabilities within group automations, specifically for provisioning flows. With this knowledge, you will be able to start your provisioning setup with ease. Secondly, you have gained knowledge about how to use Oktas automation to help your IT operations.

In the next chapter, we will look into the Okta GUI and how you can customize the end user experience so that it fits your company profile and culture.