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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

Creating layered and app-specific policies

Another way of creating layered policies is by applying MFA to specific applications. You can choose to either do this for signing in to Okta, for signing in to the application, or both, as mentioned earlier. The reason why you might want to add MFA policies to an application, even though you have already enabled it to sign in, can be the following:

  • An administrator of an application needs to authenticate with a factor with higher security than what is rolled out for signing in to Okta, to get access to that application.
  • A C-level (top management role) user needs to authenticate with a factor with higher security than what is rolled out for signing in to Okta, to get access to an application with business-critical information.
  • You need to enforce extra security for certain applications outside of the office network.

To add MFA to an application, navigate to Applications | Applications. Select the application you want...