Okta Completes Acquisition of Auth0
Okta announced this week that it has completed its $6.5 billion acquisition of Auth0. The deal will combine two major players in the identity and access management (IAM) sector.
Okta specializes in software and APIs that enable businesses to manage how their users access online systems. Auth0, i...
Passwordless: how will it change the future of authentication?
According to some security professionals, passwords will disappear as an authentication mechanism. Instead, we're heading to a passwordless future. However, a group of security professionals don't believe in passwords disappearing that quickly. What direction are we heading?
For many, the passwo...
Okta finetunes access management with Privileged Access
Okta has announced Privileged Access. The service enables companies to manage access more precisely and easily than is possible with traditional PAM products.
The new access module was announced in a press release from Okta. Privileged Access combines identity management with flexible least priv...
Okta signs agreement to acquire Auth0 for 6.5 billion dollars
The deal makes Okto more complete in providing Identity to the Internet. To persons and machines.
Okta announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Auth0, a leading identity platform for application teams. The deal will be based on a stock transaction valued at approximately $...
Okta launches new open-source design system
The architecture of the new system stresses Okta's core values of accessibility and inclusion, according to the company.
This week Okta launched its new design system, both for its own corporate and brand use, but also as an open-source project under the Apache 2.0 license. The new platform, Ody...
Major growth in security apps and apps for remote work in 2020
Applications that assist employees in working from home have taken off in the past year. Yet the effect of the corona pandemic was not visible in all applications.
This is according to the Business at Work report from Okta. The credentials management company looked at the behaviour of its users ...
Okta hits new cloud reliability landmark
Okta officially announced that its customers would enjoy 99.99 percent uptime at no extra cost. The cloud-based identity management company has reached a new level of reliability for its customers. While the enhanced level of cloud reliability will, undoubtedly, benefit all clients, it is a calcula...
Okta aims for a passwordless future, adding more use cases
During Oktane Live, Okta unveiled the future plans for its identity platform. Initially, a significant event in San Francisco was supposed to create extra buzz for these announcements. After all, there are quite a few changes and extras planned that could use some in-person explanation. However, du...
‘Use of data, development and security tools is on the rise’
Over the past year, data, development and security tools have become more popular. The number of apps per organization increased by six per cent compared to the previous year. That's what Okta told Techzine after analyzing anonymized customer data.
According to Okta's data, the use of tools to a...
With DynamicScale, Okta focuses on apps with a lot of traffic
E-commerce websites and enterprise applications sometimes have to handle a lot of traffic, but are not always able to do that. Cyber security vendor Okta has updated its Identity Cloud solution to make this possible.
With the Identity Cloud, companies can manage access to
their systems. If a use...
Okta holds the key to future identity management
Recently we were at an event of Okta, a fairly young
company. With the rise of the cloud, this party saw a new role for access and
identity management. The platform is, as it were, a very large cloud that
integrates with almost all applications, so that users can log in from any
device and the mana...