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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

Simpler administration with Okta Integration Network

For many organizations, a reason to start using Okta is to avoid the upkeep of multiple integrations. This was a problem Okta saw early on, and the Okta Integration Network (OIN) has been an important cornerstone of Okta for a long time. At this time, the OIN is gathering over 6,500 integrations to applications within a variety of product types. What's unique about this collection is that all protocols for SSO and APIs for provisioning are maintained by Okta. Integrations are not only for cloud apps but a collection of on-premise, web-based applications are also represented within these integrations. The integrations are for Secure Web Authentication (SWA), Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), and OpenID Connect (OIDC) integrations. For applications supporting any of these methods, even if it's on-premise or VPN services, it's possible to integrate with Okta, even though there is no existing integration in the...