New innovative approach to security turns
targets into first responders, enabling administrators and end
users to make informed security decisions, faster
Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA), the leading independent provider of
identity for the enterprise, today at Okta Showcase announced Okta
SecurityInsights, a family of product innovations that provides
global organizations with personalized security detection and
remediation capabilities at the end user, administrator, and
customer network level. Okta is introducing two features of
SecurityInsights: UserInsight, suspicious activity reporting for
end users, and HealthInsight, customized, dynamic security best
practice recommendations for administrators. These end user and
administrator functionalities build on Okta’s investments in
ThreatInsight, network effect-driven protection that prevents
threat actors from compromising user accounts by identifying and
blocking malicious IPs pre-authentication. Collectively,
SecurityInsights enables large enterprises to take meaningful
action across their organizations to improve security.
Global enterprises have built rapidly-evolving, expansive
workforces that continuously adopt new technology and engage with
new markets. As a result, tens of thousands of employees,
contractors, and partners are interacting with and accessing
sensitive information. Aside from the efficiency hurdles, a
distributed and disparate workforce presents an increasingly
difficult security challenge, especially in the face of growing
attacks and breaches where everyone from the rank and file to the
executive suite could become attack targets. In a global threat
landscape in which 80 percent of attacks involve compromised or
weak credentials, enterprises must maintain a security posture that
accounts for dynamic and global workforces while still enabling
robust protection at scale. That means implementing and maintaining
access management best practices across global workforces and
simultaneously turning those potential victims of attacks into
first responders.
“Enterprises operating at tremendous scale are faced with the
seemingly impossible task of managing technology access, with each
application requiring individual policy configuration in order to
avoid potentially catastrophic risk. By centralizing identity,
these organizations can not only deploy new technology faster, but
do so securely,” said Diya Jolly, Chief Product Officer, Okta.
“HealthInsight goes even further to secure large scale
organizations, offering a tailored assessment of an organization’s
security posture as well as providing the unique ability to
automate policy responses across hundreds of apps. With
UserInsight, CISOs can harness their massive user base to
seamlessly report suspicious activity without impacting
productivity, turning security targets into first responders.
Collectively, SecurityInsights leverage the end user,
administrator, and network effects across Okta’s customer base to
help keep enterprises secure, regardless of their size or
complexity.”
Empowering Administrators
As global security and IT administrators implement policies that
govern identity and access management within their organizations,
the security landscape continues to evolve. Approaches that were
once the gold standard fall out of practice, with new approaches
being adopted regularly. To counter this shifting security playing
field, Okta has introduced HealthInsight, a new, dynamic offering
that monitors adherence to security best practices and provides
tailored configuration recommendations, like enforcing strict
password policies, creating a block list for known malicious IP
addresses, and requiring strong factors during factor enrollment.
Administrators can easily act on these recommendations right from
the HealthInsight console to help prevent credential-based
attacks.
In addition to implementing security best practices through
dynamic monitoring, Okta has also unveiled new, stronger
authentication capabilities for administrators, unlocking
passwordless access through FIDO2/WebAuthn factors, including
biometrics. These non-phishable factors go even further to empower
large organizations to protect themselves against account takeover
and potential data loss.
Engaging End Users and the Ecosystem
With UserInsight, an organization’s tens of thousands of end
users serve as the first line of defense against credential-based
attacks. Once attacks are identified, the Okta Identity Cloud works
seamlessly with technology partners including Security
Orchestration, Automation & Response (SOAR) and Security
Information & Event Management (SIEM) vendors, leveraging
identity to automate incident remediation workflows throughout an
organization. With millions of log entries in an organization’s
SIEM solutions, it’s impossible for security teams to monitor and
respond to every potential issue, but now users can share the
responsibility.
UserInsight’s suspicious activity reporting alerts end users to
anomalous activity within their account, including logins from new
devices and the enrollment or resetting of multi-factor
authentication factors. After being notified, end users have the
ability to report unrecognized activity to their organization’s
administrator, kicking off automated incident response workflows.
Leveraging integrations with SOAR platforms and other security
tools, Okta can automatically quarantine a user, preventing access
to apps with sensitive data until identity verification can be
confirmed through biometrics and Okta Verify Push, Okta’s mobile
authenticator application. Using Okta Hooks, an Okta administrator
can also automatically notify SecOps teams of potential account
compromise, through integrations with digital operations platforms
like PagerDuty.
“As a leader in pharmaceuticals, Allergan has grown through a
series of acquisitions to build a thriving global workforce that
includes tens of thousands of employees and contractors,” said
Sandy Dalal, Head of Identity and Access Management, Allergan. “We
understand the pivotal role identity plays in protecting our people
and our intellectual property, and rely on Okta to help us create
policies that empower our people and instill best practices. With
Okta, Allergan is able to not only standardize and centralize our
approach to identity, but actively improve our security
posture.”
Availability
Okta SecurityInsights features are available starting today for
Okta customers. For more information visit:
https://www.okta.com/securityinsights
To tune into Okta Showcase, register for the livestream here:
https://www.okta.com/showcase-livestream
About Okta
Okta is the leading independent provider of identity for the
enterprise. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to
securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the
right time. With over 6,000 pre-built integrations to applications
and infrastructure providers, Okta customers can easily and
securely use the best technologies for their business. Over 7,000
organizations, including 20th Century Fox, JetBlue, Nordstrom,
Slack, Teach for America and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the
identities of their workforces and customers.
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