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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 focused on end users and their experience with Okta. We have explored not only the default experience for end users but also the different ways in which we can change that experience. We looked at how we can make the sign-in page match your company profile. We also reviewed how we can configure the dashboard and the settings that end users can set themselves. To use Okta, we went over the Okta browser plugin and the settings we can manage for end users. For the more advanced reader, we also looked at how to configure a custom URL domain and the different settings we can use with that – for example, setting up a self-hosting login widget. Lastly, we updated the notification templates that are used to send users.

In the next chapter, we will look at some advanced possibilities in Okta and deep-dive into Okta Workflows.