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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about Universal Directory and what we can do with it. We looked at how to integrate with your existing directories, and you now have a full understanding of how to install and configure the different agents you might need. We have looked at the different kinds of users that Okta handles, and how to work with their attributes using profile mastering. Then, we took a deep dive into the different types of groups available, and how to use them to make your workload easier — for instance, for assignments. We finished off by highlighting some best practices when you set up and work with your groups.

In the next chapter, we will go into Okta's SSO capabilities and explain how to utilize the Okta Integration Network.