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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

Understanding the basics of end user functionality

Before we can change any settings for end users to optimize their experience, we must understand what their interface looks like and what we can change. As mentioned before, when an end user logs in to the dashboard, they see all available applications. By default, they have a tab called Work, where they can add their own tabs and organize their applications.

On the end user dashboard, users can modify how apps are shown, add their own applications, and manage any credentials within the apps that are set up as Secure Web Authentication (SWA) applications.

Let’s go over the different sections on the dashboard:

Figure 6.1 – The end user dashboard

Figure 6.1 – The end user dashboard

The left column is where users can find the different sections they have and quick links to the App catalog (found under the Add apps option) and Notifications sections. In the search bar at the top, users can easily search for an application...