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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

Using groups

Every user needs to gain access to mail accounts, fileservers, Wi-Fi, applications, and so on. Managing this on an individual case-by-case basis can become very time-consuming and repetitive work. Using groups solves this pain by allowing users to be managed in bulk. Access rights can be updated and changed, and all users within the group receive these updates as one. It simplifies the work, delivers more insight into the management of the directory, and issues are more quickly resolved in larger pieces.

Groups have existed for a long time, and the concept is still very relevant. That's why you can find group management in almost every application currently available. Okta is no exception and relies heavily on group management to consolidate user structures, application assignments, and policy enforcement.

Types of groups in Okta

Okta is always created with one default group, the everyone group. Even though this is a good name, the fact that it can&apos...