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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 self-service options

Users have their personal dashboards to see and manage their applications. For applications integrated with SAML or OIDC, they would be automatically signed in when clicking on any of them. For SWA applications, where admins have set that end users will enter their own credentials, they will be prompted to do so the first time they click on an icon. After they are logged in, Okta will ask whether the login was successful. If the answer is yes, the credentials will be stored. If not, the end user will be able to try again.

The end users can re-arrange their applications by simply clicking and dragging. To find applications quickly, you can arrange applications in different tabs or simply use the search bar at the top of the page.

With the Add Applications feature for end users, they are able to add private applications, or corporate-owned applications if this is enabled. Navigate to Applications | Self Service in the admin console. In the topmost...