Okta connects any person with any application on any device. It’s an enterprise-grade, identity management service, built for the cloud, but compatible with many on-premises applications. With Okta, IT can manage any employee’s access to any application or device. Okta runs in the cloud, on a secure, reliable, extensively audited platform, which integrates deeply with on-premises applications, directories, and identity management systems.
Another popular question is “What can Okta do for it?”.
With Okta, IT can manage any employee’s access to any application or device. Okta runs in the cloud, on a secure, reliable, extensively audited platform, which integrates deeply with on-premises applications, directories, and identity management systems.
How does Okta help IT admins reduce provisioning time for users?
This greatly reduces the provisioning time for new employees, and allows IT admins to continue to use AD or LDAP as their starting point for user access. When a user’s Security Group membership changes, the change is detected by the Okta Directory Agent and is relayed to the Okta Service. When this happens, the assignment rules are recomputed.
It has many awesome features which make our complicated work into simple one. Single sign on is one of them which makes okta unique by allowing users with one log on to many applications at a time which reduces the burden of remembering multiple passwords and also saves the time to login for each application.
Okta developed SWA technology for those applications which do not support SSO. With okta we can manage access to any application on any device with any person either it may be employees or partner, etc. Subscribe to our youtube channel to get new updates..!
When does Okta sync a user to the USG?
If a user and a USG of which it is a member belong to the same domain, Okta syncs the user to the USG during Just-in-Time (JIT) provisioning and imports If a user and a DG of which it is a member belong to the same domain, Okta syncs the user to the DG only during imports, not during JIT.
The Okta AD Agent connects to Okta’s cloud service using an outbound port 443 SSL connection. This connection is cycled every 30 seconds to ensure compatibility with any existing firewalls or other security devices.
To allow Okta to synchronize with AD, the delegated authentication setting for the AD domain must be off. The Okta Active Directory (AD) Agent needs additional permissions to write the new password to AD.
How do I use Okta with multi-factor authentication?
Use Okta to allow your users to sign in to other applications instead of requiring them to remember separate sets of credentials for each application or service. Users can simply sign in once and access your full suite of applications. You want to enforce multifactor authentication (MFA) when your users want to access sensitive data.
How do I transfer password sourcing from AD to Okta?
In the Settings list, click Integration. Scroll down and clear the Enable delegated authentication to Active Directory check box. This transfers password sourcing from AD to Okta.