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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

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: “nput your host and port in host:port format.

A block of code is set as follows:

{
  "kty": "RSA",
  "alg": "RSA",
  "kid": "e86a0cf3-0df6-4c5e-aeeb-7fab2b1dfe15",
  "use": null,
  "e": "AQAB",
  "n": "w21EOpj1Mnm6jqLaM2FtfjR9cZU0u3agvATs1EDuucEUW0-I52U3sN8n4MYGZC0DRiwtOhtVEt_u7aXqKo2roUR3N11uced5sCQW9AaUT35lvKVVUKgvccS_VO7k9Zkn8qGYVBv72vTnH1QWnsSAP3sHykNpK1hyziYBe2DbldO4ZmJE7nPIStWz160C-dccPbei4azYWyVOgHcYSZtg-by0L4QLezkOShloSnZ_ZzDrjSkAI3FZefr-GFBYufNSSzclJRrMxe7zy-D0cpTdOHQ-7NBo0Ar2cbBYIbQsH18EjKGR28NjT2OkC829w3JVJlMbGr1LLHMS9ZFtDLMVQQ"
}

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

# Run this command in your project root folder.npm install @okta/okta-signin-widget –save

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on screen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in bold. Here is an example: “An organization in this stage typically has an Active Directory (AD) or some other on-premises structures as a user directory.

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