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Okta Administration Up and Running - Second Edition

By : HenkJan de Vries, Lovisa Stenbäcken Stjernlöf
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 Okta Administration Up and Running

Okta Administration Up and Running

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By: HenkJan de Vries, Lovisa Stenbäcken Stjernlöf

Overview of this book

Identity and access management (IAM) is a set of policies and technologies used to ensure an organization’s security, by carefully assigning roles and access to users and devices. This book will get you up and running with Okta, an IAM service that can help you manage both employees and customers. The book begins by helping you understand how Okta can be used as an IAM platform, before teaching you about Universal Directory and how to integrate with other directories and apps, as well as set up groups and policies for Joiner, Mover, and Leaver flows. This updated edition helps you to explore agentless desktop single sign-on (SSO) and multifactor authentication (MFA) solutions, and showing how to utilize Okta to meet NIST requirements. The chapters also walk you through Okta Workflows, low-/no-code automation functionalities, and custom API possibilities used to improve lifecycle management. Finally, you’ll delve into API access auditing and management, where you’ll discover how to leverage Advanced Server Access (ASA) for your cloud servers. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to implement Okta to enhance your organization's security and be able to use the book as a reference guide for the Okta certification exam.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Part 1:Getting Started with Okta
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Part 2: Extending Okta

Using groups

Every user needs to gain access to mail accounts, file servers, Wi-Fi, applications, and so on. Managing this on an individual case-by-case basis can become very time-consuming and repetitive work. Using groups solves this problem by allowing users to be managed in bulk. Access rights can be updated and changed, and all users within the group receive these updates as one. It simplifies the work, delivers more insight into the management of the directory, and issues are more quickly resolved in larger pieces.

Groups have existed for a long time, and the concept is still very relevant. That’s why you can find group management in almost every application currently available. Okta is no exception and relies heavily on group management to consolidate user structures, application assignments, and policy enforcement.

Types of groups in Okta

An Okta org is always created with one default group – the everyone group. Even though this is a good name, the fact...

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