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Device Trust with MDM/EMM Integration in Okta A friendly, ground-up guide to the idea that access should depend not only on who a person is, but also on which device they are using. You will learn how Okta tells a company-managed device from a personal one, how it works together…
Custom Widgets & Sign-In Pages in Okta The sign-in page is the front door of your company. It is the first thing every customer and employee sees, and it is also the most attacked page you own. A first-principles guide to branding, extending and safely operating Okta's sign-in experience, from…
Common Advanced-Level Mistakes in Okta A patient, plain-language tour of the mistakes that experienced Okta administrators and architects still make: in policies, authentication, administrator access, tokens, integrations, provisioning, automation, environments, monitoring, and recovery. For each one you will learn why it happens, what it costs, how to spot it, and…
Configuration Drift Detection in Okta A patient, plain-language guide to noticing when your Okta settings have quietly wandered away from what you intended. You will learn what drift is, where it comes from, how to define a trustworthy baseline, how to compare and classify differences, how to use Okta's own…
Bi-Directional Sync Conflict Resolution in Okta When two systems can both change the same person's record, someone has to decide who wins. A first-principles guide to how data moves between Okta and the systems around it, why it collides, and how to design rules so that collisions are rare, visible,…
Building a Custom SCIM Server in Okta A friendly, ground-up guide to creating your own SCIM service so that Okta can create, update, and remove people and groups inside an application that has no ready-made connector. You will learn what SCIM is, what Okta sends, what your server must answer,…
Behavior Detection Rules in Okta A correct password and a correct code do not always mean the right person is signing in. Behavior detection teaches your sign-in system to notice when something about a login looks unusual, and to respond in proportion. A first-principles guide to how the rules work,…
Automated Policy Testing in Okta A single changed rule can lock out a whole company or quietly let the wrong people in. Automated policy testing checks every important rule every time something changes, so mistakes are found by a machine on a quiet afternoon instead of by customers on a…
B2B Multi-Tenant CIAM Architecture in Okta A friendly, ground-up guide to designing identity for a product that serves many business customers at once. You will learn what a tenant really is, how to keep every customer's people and data apart, how each business can bring its own corporate sign-in, how…
Audit Log Retention & SIEM Integration in Okta A patient, plain-language guide to keeping Okta's record of events for as long as you need it, and to sending that record into a security monitoring system where it can be searched, correlated, and turned into alerts. You will learn what the…