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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

Chapter 6: Customizing Your Okta GUI

So far, we have focused a lot on the administrator panel and all the features that make Okta a leader in its field, but none of Okta's capabilities would matter if the user experience wasn't good. We will now look a little more at the user experience and what we as admins can do to change it. To start, we will look at the different features end users have. After that, we'll go into how we can customize the user dashboard, with a logo and colors. We will go through what different administrator settings there are to configure the dashboard. While looking at the admin settings, we will also see how to modify what is sent from Okta, such as emails and SMS messages. Lastly, we will investigate how you can customize the login page and how to manage and host a custom login widget on your own login page. The following topics are covered in this chapter:

  • Understanding the basics of end user functionality and customization
  • The user...