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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

Chapter 9: Leveraging Access Gateway for Your On-Premises Applications

In this last chapter of the book, we will go through another unique Okta product, called Okta Access Gateway. For many organizations, legacy on-premises (on-prem) applications are a problem when organizations want to modernize IT. To have a unified identity platform such as Okta, giving end users access with Single Sign-On (SSO), the optimal case would be to include all applications. With Okta Access Gateway, that's possible. This feature is not for all organizations, and many Okta administrators will not have to work with this. When hosting Access Gateway within your organization, the technical skills required are higher than for other Okta features. But even so, it's good to have a high-level knowledge of this functionality. Here, you will gain more knowledge about what Access Gateway is and an overview of how to deploy it. You will learn how to deploy a sample application to your environment, and then...