IAM and Okta
Okta is an important, platform-agnostic set of services to help organizations with efficient and modern Identity and Access Management (IAM). One of Okta's most important strengths is its ability to work with a variety of platforms and integrate its features and services into various platforms' own solutions to provide seamless IAM. This strength has made Okta the leader in its field, and important to us when managing our organization's systems, to ensure easy and efficient user account management.
In this chapter, we'll learn about Okta and its features. This information will serve as the foundation with which to approach this book and pick up the skills we require to integrate Okta into our systems and learn how to use it in the best way possible. In this chapter, we'll explore the following topics:
- The origins of Okta
- Exploring Okta
- Okta's basic features
- Okta's advanced features
