Introducing Okta Identity Governance: Intelligent Identity Management for All Users and Resources
April 07 2021 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
New product aims to modernize the identity
governance and administration market with a cloud-first approach
that streamlines user access across the full spectrum of resources
from applications to infrastructure
Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA), the leading independent provider of
identity, today at Oktane21, announced Okta Identity Governance, a
powerful new product that offers a modern, cloud-first approach to
identity governance and administration (IGA). Okta Identity
Governance delivers self-service identity governance and
administration for all users within the extended enterprise through
a single control plane to meet compliance requirements without
sacrificing speed in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Watch all
of Okta’s product announcements at Oktane21.com.
The acceleration of cloud adoption and the new, dynamic nature
of workforces today has dramatically changed the paradigm of user
access. Management of access to an increasing number of resources
is now standard business in transformed workplace environments.
While organizations must enable access to an increasingly higher
volume of disparate applications for workforces to operate
productively, access to sensitive information cannot come at the
cost of security. Enterprises have previously turned to IGA
solutions to resolve complex identity governance challenges.
However, traditional IGA systems were designed for on-premises
applications and infrastructure, are costly and unnecessarily
complex to deploy, and do not meet the needs of today’s dynamic
cloud environments. Okta Identity Governance delivers the most
critical capabilities of identity governance and administration in
a modernized solution for a cloud-first world.
“Identity solves the most complex IT challenges across the
enterprise and teams want a unified, integrated platform that
governs every user and every resource,” said Diya Jolly, Chief
Product Officer, Okta. “We are proud to expand our platform to the
IGA market and believe with identity at the core, we can offer the
most intelligent and efficient path to securing user access and
mitigating risk for all users, applications, and data. Okta
Identity Governance cuts across all resources from APIs and
applications to servers, analyzes the right level of access to
critical resources, and ensures that access stays in line over
time. It also brings the right level of automation to reporting and
access certification campaigns, freeing our customers of painful
data wrangling and expensive consultants.”
Democratizing Access with Delegation and Self-Service
Okta Identity Governance gives enterprises a modern approach to
solve complex user access and compliance issues, building on Okta’s
proven success in automation and user management. Okta Identity
Governance harnesses popular workplace tools to promote delegation
and self-service, streamlining the evaluation and decision-making
of who should have access to what resources and when. IT and
security can now offer end-users a modern experience for
application access requests through platforms like Slack. The
result is boosted productivity and increased adoption of governance
strategies, allowing IT to meet continually bigger challenges for
the organization.
Benefits of Okta Identity Governance include:
- Increased user productivity and IT efficiency: Enable
great “Day 1” experiences for users with automatically provisioned
birthright applications based on attributes. Free up IT resources
with self-service access and approval workflows for users via
modern chat, mobile, and web interfaces.
- Better security and compliance outcomes: Automatically
suspend access to resources based on user status changes in HR
systems and directories. Maintain a system of least privilege to
prevent accumulation of elevated or privileged access, and produce
quick audit evidence and reporting for sensitive resources.
- Increased cost savings and agility: Easily adapt to new
users and resources by utilizing open standards and extensible
API-based interfaces. Eliminate the cost of maintaining on-prem
systems.
The Power of Identity: A Unified Approach to Access
Management, Privileged Access, and Identity Governance
Okta is proud to deliver a comprehensive single control plane
for access management, identity governance, and privileged access.
Okta’s unified platform meets enterprise challenges by bringing
together core identity use cases in one centralized experience.
Okta’s unified approach to access management, identity
governance, and privileged access delivers:
- A single control plane: Leverage a single platform for
identity governance and privileged access as well as one system to
collect audit logs for compliance – making setup and management
easier, while offering the best user experience.
- Faster time-to-value: Achieve security, productivity,
and compliance outcomes more quickly and effectively than any
alternative through a SaaS delivery model that provides
frictionless management across any hybrid or multi-cloud
environment.
- Seamless automation: Enable end-to-end identity
governance processes across applications, infrastructure, and APIs
at any level of scale using Okta’s extensible APIs and no-code
Workflows.
“T-Mobile is constantly transforming its technology to empower
our employees with modern tools to best serve customers and keep up
with their dynamic expectations,” said Warren McNeel, Senior Vice
President of Product and Technology, T-Mobile. “Okta’s powerful
automation is a core part of our IAM strategy and enables us to
offer our employees seamless, secure access to critical resources
in remote or in-office workplace environments. Both the business
and customers benefit when automation is closely united with
identity. Okta Identity Governance further streamlines user access
across a wide array of devices, applications, and digital
processes.”
Availability
Okta Identity Governance will be available in Q1 2022. For more
information, visit:
https://www.okta.com/products/okta-identity-governance-and-okta-privileged-access/
Any unreleased products, features or functionality referenced in
this release are not currently available and may not be delivered
on time or at all. Product roadmaps do not represent a commitment,
obligation or promise to deliver any product, feature or
functionality, and customers should not rely on them to make
purchase decisions.
About Okta
Okta is the leading independent identity provider. The Okta
Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right
people to the right technologies at the right time. With more than
7,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure
providers, Okta provides simple and secure access to people and
organizations everywhere, giving them the confidence to reach their
full potential. More than 10,000 organizations, including JetBlue,
Nordstrom, Siemens, Slack, T-Mobile, Takeda, Teach for America, and
Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their
workforces and customers.
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