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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

Setting up group rules

Group automation, or group rules, can be considered the best way to simplify administrators' work with Okta. Anything that requires setup and maintenance and is repetitive work can be automated with Okta's group rules.

Setting up group rules allows you to manage your workforce in bulk and allows you to manage the following:

  • The user directory
  • Application provisioning and single sign-on assignments
  • Security policy assignments
  • Directory and application group pushes

Because of the 360-degree view of a user in Okta, and its assigned groups, administrators can easily deliver quick setup, automation, remediation, and application management when using Okta groups. By allowing users to come in from different sources, and have their groups be added to Okta too, you can make sure the users are correctly assigned and managed by using Okta's group rules.

The strength lies in the simple options for the multitude of functions...