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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

Delegated admin workflows

By default in Okta, you need organization or super-administrator privileges to access the Workflows console. There might be cases where you want a user to be able to run a workflow but without giving that user access to all available automations within that console. For these cases, delegated flows are perfect. In this scenario, you build a flow in the Workflows console and delegate it to another administrator, who can run it directly in the Okta administrator console.

To do this, there are a few prerequisites:

  1. The workflow starts with the Delegated flow card:
Figure 7.19 – The workflow with the delegate trigger card

Figure 7.19 – The workflow with the delegate trigger card

  1. The administrator with the delegated flow needs an admin role that contains workflow management, or a resource set that contains the delegated flow as well as the Run delegated flow permission. You can set this by going to Settings | Security | Administrators | Resources. Here, you can...