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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 everything we need to know about using different kinds of factors, setting up policies for them, both for signing in and for specific applications. We also deep-dived into Okta's features around contextual MFA, where your factor policies can be adaptive. You now understand how to set up zones and how to use them in different settings. Lastly, we also looked at the possibility to use MFA for VPNs and similar solutions.

In the next chapter, we will look into Okta's life cycle management features, such as automations and workflows. Also, basic but powerful features such as provisioning and Human Relations (HR)-as-a-master concepts will be thoroughly explained and we will show how they are set up.