A growing organization’s employees, customers, and contractors need trusted access to enterprise applications, and increasingly, via their desktop and mobile devices. Often, helpdesk administrators usually depend on standard real-time software to ascertain the right access levels to provision or deprovision users.

These tools usually leave security gaps and downsize employee productivity legs, as well as extend the average response time to users who move within, and out of the organization. Access requests, audits, and a lack of automation eventually result in a reliance on email, tickets, support, and spreadsheets. Thus, access permission and levels get tangled up, and it becomes increasingly difficult to manage a role, geography, department, and any other mix of user attributes.

Majority of the assignment and resources accessed are manual and require extensive IT involvement: a typical scenario is one where users submit an access request ticket, and IT checks the access level with the software before approving access to the app. This stacks up for IT teams that oversee a fluid workforce and a large number of applications.

• Your company has a new marketing hire requires access to all marketing-related applications on their first day on the job
• Sixty contractors are laid off until further notice. Okta can reinstate their original app access when they are recalled
• An employee is going for leave in 10 days. Okta Lifecycle management service can automatically suspend access when ten days elapse
• A sales employee is promoted to an executive role. Okta can approve access to new apps and cancels all access to the previous apps when their job title changes

• Group Membership Rules: Based on specific user attributes including position, geography, and department, and a user can be assigned to a specific group thus entitling the user to certain entitlements and app privileges
• App-as-Master: Pre-installed provisioning connectors to CRM, AD, ERP, or HRIS applications allowing to use user attributes in Universal Directory, in addition to these application updates as needed. Admins can determine the priority of the profile masters in Okta
• Attribute-Level Mastering: The ability to maintain various user attributes from differing authoritative sources [CRM, LDAP, HR, AD, etc.]. Multiple sources can define a user’s attributes
• Access Request Workflow: Multi-step access request workflow that allows users to request for additional apps that are not part of the app catalog. Request are instantly sent to the relevant authorities within or outside of IT
• Onsite Provisioning Agent: The onsite provisioning service from Okta extends it’s provisioning capabilities to include onsite web applications and robust applications that work behind corporate firewalls. Also can leverage the SCIM 2.0 standard
• Access Reports: Create reports easily around app access, app assignment, and deprovisioning of users. These reports can be filtered to focus on applications, users, or particular dates. Okta is one of the leading identity cloud services that organizations rely on to get their most important projects completed. Customers use their products in a variety of ways to solve their most challenging access and security challenges, manage access efficiently, build better products, and streamline security

• SSO capabilities, MFA security layer.
• Automatic provisioning of accounts, apps, and SAML authentication
• You don’t have to worry about remembering passwords
• Single login support