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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)
1
Section 1: Getting Started with Okta
8
Section 2: Extending Okta

Chapter 5: Automating Using Life Cycle Management

In this chapter, we will look at how we can use some of the knowledge we gained in previous chapters for a complete user life cycle. We will look at how we can use integrations for user provisioning, such as setting up a Human Resources Information System (HRIS) as a mastering service. We will also go deeper into editing a user's profile, for instance, with Expression Language. For the groups we learned about in Chapter 2, Working with Universal Directory, we'll now learn how to use automation to get them to work for us. Lastly, we will deep dive into the different kinds of hooks offered within Okta, as well as how we can utilize workflows.

These are some skills you will learn:

  • Automating user provisioning
  • Provisioning rich profiles
  • Setting up group rules
  • Setting up self-service options
  • Using workflow capabilities
  • Using Okta Workflows