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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

Automation

Automating the enrollment of servers in ASA is eventually the best way to scale your infrastructure. This allows the quick management of all the servers across the board, along with the needed access per group and user. To make this happen, your infrastructure automation tools require a solution to allow your identity management to scale along with the infrastructure.

Using tools such as Hashicorp's Terraform (https://www.terraform.io) gives your admins options to create baked-in solutions that are run as soon as new servers are spun up. This allows enrollment automation to happen based on the common usage and access grants that are needed for those servers.

Important note

Okta also has a certified Terraform provider. To understand more and implement it, please visit https://registry.terraform.io/providers/oktadeveloper/okta/latest/docs.

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