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Okta Administration: Up and Running

By : Lovisa Stenbäcken Stjernlöf, HenkJan de Vries
Book Image

Okta Administration: Up and Running

By: Lovisa Stenbäcken Stjernlöf, HenkJan de Vries

Overview of this book

IAM, short for identity and access management, is a set of policies and technologies for ensuring the security of an organization through careful role and access assignment for users and devices. With this book, you’ll get up and running with Okta, an identity and access management (IAM) service that you can use for both employees and customers. Once you’ve understood how Okta can be used as an IAM platform, you’ll learn about the Universal Directory, which covers how to integrate other directories and applications and set up groups and policies. As you make progress, the book explores Okta’s single sign-on (SSO) feature and multifactor authentication (MFA) solutions. Finally, you will delve into API access management and discover how you can leverage Advanced Server Access for your cloud servers and Okta Access Gateway for your on-premises applications. By the end of this Okta book, you’ll have learned how to implement Okta to enhance your organization's security and be able to use this book as a reference guide for the Okta certification exam.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Started with Okta
8
Section 2: Extending Okta

Chapter 8: Managing Access with Advanced Server Access

Okta's Advanced Server Access (ASA) is a fairly new product, launched in 2019. With ASA, you can extend Okta's core products to your server fleet. With Universal Directory, you get a single source of truth for your server accounts. With Lifecycle Management, you can automate the provisioning of these accounts. With Single Sign-On, you can create simple and reliable authentication for your workflows. Lastly, you can fully utilize the contextual Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) controls for your server accounts. In this chapter, we will go through why a product such as ASA is needed, as well as what you need to do to set up and manage ASA.

To understand this fully, in this chapter we'll look at the following:

  • ASA – a high-level overview
  • Setting up ASA
  • Managing your ASA environment
  • Automation