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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 the Okta dashboard and Okta Mobile app

Okta gives users a great experience by having a dashboard that all the user's applications are on. End users can arrange which apps go where and they can move them into different tabs to manage their environment even more. Okta's dashboard allows end users to set their personal passwords in applications and change and update these passwords later on. We will go through this in more detail later in this chapter. Depending on the settings, they can possibly also add personal applications through the personal application store, with over 5,000 applications. This only includes applications with passwords, because an end user cannot integrate Okta themselves with other applications using more integrable options.

Figure 3.10 – End user's application dashboard

Once a new application is added, the user will see a notification bubble after they get onto the dashboard. If they don't read it, the...