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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

The end user dashboard and Okta plugin settings

Now that we have looked at what settings we can configure for the login experience, let's see what we can do for the experience inside Okta.

Admin settings for the dashboard

If you navigate to Settings | Customization, you will find an array of different settings that you can use. It's here where you can find some of the settings the user can also see when they go to Settings on their dashboard. The settings are divided into different tabs:

Figure 6.16 – Categories of customization

The categories are as follows:

  • General
  • End-user dashboard
  • Custom Sign In
  • Custom Error Pages

In this section, we will look at the first two; let's start with General.

In the User Account section, you can manage settings for how users can change their personal information and/or password information. If this information is managed by another application, you can write a message...