Okta - Identity management and SSO

Okta logoOkta enables easy access for employees while allowing control for IT, who can provide Single Sign-On (SSO) to apps and support Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). This enables employees to reclaim their day and be more effective.

Okta gives IT an easy way to manage accounts and secure access through automated provisioning of apps with device management and flexible policy management.

Okta runs in the cloud on a secure, reliable, audited platform and integrates with on-premise applications, directories and identity management systems.


Identity and device management

Mobility management

Okta is a mobility management system that puts user identities at the centre, securing mobile access while ensuring a positive user experience.

Okta allows you to define access policies based on a user's identity and a device's status. It providing centralized control of how and when users can access enterprise resources and lets you shut down access from unauthorized devices.

As Okta is a core identity provider, the system can act on known user attributes and contextual data to restrict access from end-points that don't meet an organization's security requirements. This provides an advantage over traditional enterprise mobility management (EMM) solutions, which depend on proprietary SDKs or complex on-prem gateways to provide conditional access.

Okta facilitates BYOD and allows employees to enroll devices on their own in a secure manner. 

 

Universal directory

Okta allows you to deploy a flexible, cloud-based user store to customize, organize, and manage any set of user attributes.

Okta provides one view of users and groups. IT can easily search and sort, or drill down to individual users for details. The integrated system allows IT to directly import groups, set up algorithms to manage downstream apps and even align attributes between your Okta profile and profiles on other apps. 

 

Single sign-on

Free employees from password chains - Okta facilitates a single set of credentials giving users access to enterprise apps in the cloud, on-premise, and on mobile devices.

The Okta Application Network offers the most standards-based integrations available for single sign-on. Users can add any application that has a web-based login page in minutes. 

 

Provisioning

Automate user onboarding and off boarding with seamless communication between directories and cloud applications. Okta allows IT departments to streamline  provisioning and keep user information in sync across all apps.

 

Adaptive multi-factor authentication

Secure all apps and VPNs with a robust policy framework, a comprehensive set of modern second-verification factors and adaptive, risk-based authentication that integrates with all apps and infrastructure.