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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

Using Okta Workflows

Okta Workflows is a GUI-driven no-/low-code automation tool with a lot of possibilities. This large pool of functionality allows Okta to be capable of managing different aspects of a user lifecycle more granularly. This differs quite extensively from the simpler automations we talked about in the previous section. Workflows allows you to incorporate dozens of applications, as well as your own functionalities as part of a workflow.

Workflows can do a lot. Let’s look at a few use cases:

  • The provisioning and de-provisioning of app accounts: Okta Workflows can automatically detect and act on newly added accounts. These newly joined employees, with their Okta account, will be assigned to the required applications, be granted the necessary entitlements, and even receive folder shares based on who they are and what their role is. Additionally, a message can be sent to their manager to make sure they are welcomed correctly. Conversely, Okta Workflows...