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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

API Access Management fundamentals

Using APIs is beneficial because they are automatable and can be programmed to do just what is needed. In many cases, APIs are used by users to help their work be more automated and remove repetitive tasks. By connecting the APIs from different applications, users can all of a sudden see their data in different places, interact with it, and manipulate it where and how they want and like.

On the other side, developers and IT teams might invest in creating custom services and or applications to make their life, or that of their colleagues, better. Creating these applications usually entails adding APIs to open up data streams to collect and bring it all together.

Lastly, if your organization's business model is to build services or web products, chances are they'll be using APIs to connect to other applications, partners, systems, and so on.

All of these APIs require different needs, approaches, and management.

According to Okta...