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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

Understanding the basics of end user functionality and customization

Before we can change any settings for end users to optimize the experience, we must understand what their interface looks like and what we can change. As mentioned before, when an end user logs in to the dashboard, they see all available applications. By default, they have a tab called Work, where they can add their own tabs and organize their applications.

On the end user dashboard, users can modify how apps are shown, add their own applications, and manage any credentials within the apps that are set up as Secure Web Authentication (SWA) applications.

Important note

Okta is currently switching over to a new look and feel for the dashboard. We will be referencing the new dashboard layout; we'll occasionally reference the old dashboard where necessary.

Let's go over the different sections of the dashboard:

Figure 6.1 – The end user dashboard

The left column is...