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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)
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Section 1: Getting Started with Okta
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Section 2: Extending Okta

Managing your ASA environment

There are many different things within ASA that you can manage. Similar to what we mentioned earlier, you can also manage groups, users, and so on in ASA. So, we will not go into that again here. Instead, we will look at how you manage projects, which is an ASA-specific feature.

Managing projects

As you might remember, we created a project in the preceding section, to be able to create the enrollment token. If you want to secure anything in ASA, you will need a token. The project is used to connect a set of resources with a set of configurations. You can compare it to a domain in AD. The project will let you manage different kinds of servers or web applications. So, after you have created your project, as you did to create the enrollment token for a server, you want to add groups to it. Before we can do that, we have to create the group. When you have integrated ASA with Okta using System for Cross-Domain Identity Management (SCIM), you can sync...