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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

Automating user provisioning

Previously, we've looked at several things that together become a complete user provisioning process. Groups, directory integrations, and so on, all come together for complete onboarding and offboarding. Let's look at how we can put it all together.

As mentioned in Chapter 3, Single Sign-On for a Great End User Experience, there are different kinds of integrations available in the Okta Integration Network (OIN), and many of the applications have System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) possibilities. SCIM is an open standard to use for managing user identity information. With SCIM, there is a defined schema and a REST API for Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD) operations. To say it more simply, SCIM is a protocol to store user information in a way that identity data can easily be shared with multiple applications.

Let's look at it with an example. If an end user quits, and an administrator deactivates their account in Okta...