The Open Banking market is expected to grow to $43.15 billion by 2026. It is rapidly becoming the security cornerstone for enterprises adopting cloud technology and building the next generation of business, partner, and consumer services. Open Banking has the potential to reshape the competitive landscape and consumer experience of the banking…

Executive summary The lines between users inside and outside your organization are blurring. Modern organizations are finding it advantageous to consolidate and simplify Identity structures to provide all users the information they need, where and when they need it. SecureITsource and Okta have partnered to take a closer look at real customers and…

What Is the Domain Name System (DNS)?  The domain name system (DNS) makes it possible for browsers, apps, and servers to load internet resources. Think of it like a phonebook—except instead of associating a person’s name with a phone number, it maps a domain name (e.g., okta.com) to an internet protocol (IP) address that can be understood by…

COVID-19 has transformed all parts of life. The way we do business, our purchasing preferences, and our personal aspirations and life goals have changed dramatically. For me, I now work from home, I order EVERYTHING online, and we decided to accelerate our family plans of moving to the mountains and building a multi-generational home for our…

Today’s pre-packaged, grab-and-go products and services are designed to satisfy our growing desire for instant gratification. In the digital era, everything is always on and available at our fingertips, which has created high expectations for consumers interacting with brands online.  The consumerism of online services has created an insatiable…

Introducing Okta + NetMotion: Future-proof and Secure Remote Access for a Post-COVID World We’ve entered into a new era of identity. As organizations have had to become increasingly flexible in supporting distributed, remote teams, they’ve also had to put an increased focus on security. With workforces worldwide becoming more mobile and dynamic—a…

Today’s cyber-attacks target people, not infrastructure. Threats are constantly evolving to target the weakest point in an organization's attack surface– the end user. In fact, more than 90% of advanced threats target users through email. Not only that, but the growth of remote workers introduces more security risk than ever before as users…

There are a number of deployment challenges that might drive an organization to enlist Okta’s Professional Services team, including short timelines, complex environments, or a lack of specialized expertise. With a range of solutions available, including customized options (plus standardized methods, processes, and tools developed over the course…

Put simply, personal data is information that relates to 1. an identified or identifiable person or 2. an identified or identifiable legal entity (where such information is protected similarly as personal data under applicable data protection laws and regulations). While regulations use different terms with slightly varying definitions, “personal…

Container technology—often referred to simply as “containers”—is a mechanism for packaging an application so that it can run in isolation from other processes. Getting their name from the shipping industry, containers are units of software, made up of code and dependencies, that enable applications to run quickly, reliably, and uniformly,…