Okta | What Is Okta?

so what is octa exactly that's a great question when most people think of octa they probably think of applications with single sign-on or multi-factor authentication and that's where we started but it's definitely not the end if those applications are based in the cloud is SAS apps odds are there in our octa integration network but most organizations are also building custom applications that might be used for their own employees partners and customers optic connects to both of these using open protocols like sam'l or Open ID connect for a consistent single sign-on experience and with a new ought to access gateway you can even do this with on-premises apps that are sitting behind your firewall pretty good so far chances are as you're building these custom applications you're also building api's behind the scenes and it's important to protect those to talk to API access management allows you to have that single sign-on experience directly with your api's it's basically a auth as a service it plugs into your existing API management portals or gateways but octa goes even deeper because every single one of these applications and api's is also running on servers or containers has advanced server access and able C to extend a single sign-on experience right down to those servers and containers themselves in order to do this whole thing well we need a consistent view of the user Octus Universal directory does exactly that it gives us context like their role in the organization what groups they're apart of even when and where they've authenticated this time and recently from there you can use products like lifecycle management so that when somebody joins or leaves your team or signs up as a customer you can make policies based on their group membership and profile which allow them to be provisioned into and out of any of these systems and on top of all this we've got our authorization policies take our MFA product and use it on the applications that need it this is totally flexible based on the group membership or even the application itself it's all up to you so there you have it ought to protects you from top to bottom whether you're in the cloud on premises deploying your own systems or integrating with others our vision is to enable any company to use any technology and we simplify it all to an admin dashboard backed by a powerful API that's octa the identity standard visit octa to learn more

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Length: 2min 24sec (144 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 31 2020