Okta and NIST

To be continuously compliant with today’s regulations and tomorrow’s rules and recommendations, Okta will help organizations follow new frameworks and guidelines that are accepted as the (new) norm.

While you might be working on your zero trust initiative, many organizations will also refer to the cybersecurity framework from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). As with all guidelines and frameworks, there is no miracle product to implement for compliance. Okta doesn’t cover all aspects that are included in the framework but can indeed help organizations manage the elements relating to IAM and access control.

The five core values of NIST are as follows:

1. Identify
2. Protect
3. Detect
4. Respond
5. Recover

What the framework is basically saying is that organizations need full visibility and control to be secure. As we have seen from the introduction to Okta’s features, by implementing the core features, you get a full 360-degree view of all users, their roles, and their accesses. By implementing AMFA, you can fulfill the requirement of context-based MFA with factors that suit each type of user for each situation.

To find a complete list of the NIST controls that Okta can help with, visit https://www.okta.com/sites/default/files/pdf/Meeting-the-Latest-NIST-Guidelines-Okta-Final.pdf.