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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

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: 'While the first part is required to make sure the API call is accepted and correct using –H as a statement for the headers, the second part simply states the actual creation of the group with the accompanying details.'

A block of code is set as follows:

{ 
  "id": "00g1emaKYZTWRYYRRTSK", 
  "created": "2015-02-06T10:11:28.000Z", 
  "lastUpdated": "2015-10-05T19:16:43.000Z", 
  "lastMembershipUpdated": "2015-11-28T19:15:32.000Z", 
  "objectClass": [ "okta:user_group" ], 
  "type": "OKTA_GROUP", 
  "profile": { 
    "name": "West Coast Users", 
    "description": "All Users West of The Rockies" 
  },

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: 'To create a new token, click the Create Token button.'

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