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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

How to deploy Access Gateway

Deploying Okta Access Gateway isn't that hard, but does come with some requirements. You might need to integrate with your on-prem directory, AD, or LDAP. You need to understand which apps are currently integrated with your WAM and whether they are compatible with Okta. You need to have a strategy and process ready and be able to roll back, so don't go and take down the entire server center at once. Even though Okta can do a lot, good testing and setup is required.

The first step of deploying Access Gateway is to make sure you have gone through the list of prerequisites:

  • Underlying hardware: Access Gateway was architected around using the SSE4.2 extension to the x64 instruction set, so the server you run Access Gateway on must support at least that instruction set. If you don't know what this is, you can read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE4.
  • Access Gateway can run on Amazon Web Services, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure...