Okta Administration Up and Running: Drive operational excellence with IAM solutions for on-premises and cloud apps - Softcover

Vries, HenkJan De; Stjernlöf, Lovisa Stenbäcken

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1837637458 ISBN 13: 9781837637454

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2023

Synopsis

Learn the foundation of Zero trust, IAM and Okta - combined with step by step instructions on how to do a foundational configuration of your own tenant.

Key Features

• Learn how to use Okta for complete identity and access management in your organization
• Use single sign-on, multifactor authentication, and life cycle management for enhanced security
• Set up, manage, and audit API access policies

Book Description

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 for Joiner-Mover-Leaver flows. As you make progress, the book explores Okta’s single sign-on (SSO) feature and multifactor authentication (MFA) solutions. To enhance the lifecycle management, you'll also walk through Okta Workflows and enhance it with Okta Identity Governance. 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.

What you will learn

• Foundations to zero trust, IAM and Okta
• Overview of all features in Okta
• Hands on instructions how to integrate to directories and applications
• Practical recommendations how to manage policies for SSO and MFA
• How to and examples on how to work with Groups and Group rules for Joiner-Mover-Leaver events
• Managing your Okta tenants with APIs and managing you APIs with Okta
• How to extend your Okta experience with Workflows, OIG, OAG and ASA

Who This Book Is For

If you are an IT consultant, business decision-maker, system administrator, system and security engineer, or anyone who wishes to use Okta to plan, design, and implement identity and access management solutions, this book is for you. A basic understanding of authentication and authorization is necessary.

Table of Contents

1. IAM and Okta
2. Working with Universal Directory
3. Single sign on for a great end user experience
4. Increased security with Adaptive Multi factor Authentication
5. Automate using lifecycle management
6. Customizing your Okta GUI
7. Okta Workflows
8. Okta Identity Governances
9. API Access management
10. The right access with Advanced server Access
11. Leveraging Access Gateway for your on-premise application

About this title

About the Author

HenkJan has extensive experience with Okta, being an Okta partner engineer for over 5 years. With a long history of both implementing and supporting many Okta customers, he understands what long term requirements look like, but also the day to day management within organizations. Currently, he is strategically supporting customers to reach all their Okta potential. HenkJan is a certified consultant and is currently part of the exclusive SME group within Okta. Besides his business-related reach, he also enjoys helping unknown and uncontracted customers on several community boards, and by doing so, he has been named an Okta Advocate in 2019 and an Okta Community Leader in 2020.<br /><br />Lovisa has been with Devoteam for over 4 years, working with multiple cloud vendors during that period. Starting out as a Project Manager, gaining certifications within G Suite and Salesforce, it was a natural step to start helping customers with their complete cloud setup, including Okta. Apart from customer work, she also has experience with management, both in resources and budget. With several Okta implementations under her belt and an Okta Professional certification in the bag, she now heads the Okta practice within Devoteam.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1837637458
• ISBN 13: 9781837637454
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 306