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Okta Administration: Up and Running

Okta Administration: Up and Running

By : Lovisa Stenbäcken Stjernlöf, HenkJan de Vries
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Okta Administration: Up and Running

Okta Administration: Up and Running

4.6 (8)
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.
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Section 1: Getting Started with Okta
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Section 2: Extending Okta

Managing inbound SSO

Okta allows the users to use external identity providers to log in to Okta with their own user database and login methods. This can be a Microsoft, Google, or a generic OIDC or SAML application. You could have contractors or outside partners needing access to some of your applications that want their IdP to be the source to log in with. Using inbound SSO with Okta makes it possible to connect with other IdPs and have their users login.

Even though Okta can easily connect to one of the aforementioned methods, we will focus specifically on connecting with an SAML IdP, allowing users to log in and have additional options to use. This is shown in the following IdP list:

Figure 3.19 – An overview of the identity providers configured

Figure 3.19 – An overview of the identity providers configured

When navigating to Security | Identity Providers, you end up on the overview page for all inbound SSO connections.

Clicking on the Add Identity Provider button allows you to choose the type of IdP...

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