Overview
What is The Okta Identity Cloud?
Okta is an enterprise grade identity management service, built in the cloud. IT can manage access across any application, person or device. Whether the people are employees, partners or customers or whether the applications are in the cloud, on premises…
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Wonderful End User Experience with The Okta Identity Cloud
Making SaaS application user management easier than ever!
Okta is the best tool in market to modernize your IAM
Good product for big and scalable project
Tried and True
Okta: An extra security blanket every major company needs
Efficient Product and an Old Player in the Market Going Strong
Focusing on Identity and Security
Straight-forward Centralized Application Software
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Popular Features
- ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO) (152)9.595%
- Multi-Factor Authentication (142)9.292%
- ID-Management Access Control (144)9.191%
- Password Management (138)8.888%
Reviewer Pros & Cons
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Pricing
Single Sign on
$2.00
Multi Factor Authentication
$3.00
Single Sign on Adaptive
$5.00
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Features
Identity Management
Identity management software manages information about the identity of software users and controls access to corporate resources
- 9.1ID-Management Access Control(144) Ratings
Authorization or restriction of access to information depending on role
- 9.5ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)(152) Ratings
The ability to login to the system once, gaining access to all systems without the need for logging in again
- 9.2Multi-Factor Authentication(142) Ratings
Using multiple, independent components to gain access
- 8.8Password Management(138) Ratings
Self-help capabilities the help users recover forgotten passwords, etc.
- 8.9Account Provisioning and De-provisioning(129) Ratings
Capabilities for creating user accounts based on roles, group memberships and business processes
- 8.2ID Management Workflow Automation(79) Ratings
Automated sequence of tasks to simplify processes
- 8.4ID Risk Management(106) Ratings
Identification, evaluation, and prioritization of risks with procedures to minimize, impacts of unplanned consequences
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What is The Okta Identity Cloud?
The Okta Identity Cloud Features
Identity Management Features
- Supported: ID-Management Access Control
- Supported: ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)
- Supported: Multi-Factor Authentication
- Supported: Password Management
- Supported: Account Provisioning and De-provisioning
- Supported: ID Management Workflow Automation
- Supported: ID Risk Management
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The Okta Identity Cloud Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone |
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(101-125 of 198)Auth0 was a perfect tool to kick off our SSO feature
- The account management and support teams are very communicative and helpful. They teach us about new features we didn't know we could use!
- The documentation is phenomenal. I often use it as an example when improving our own documentation.
- Auth0 is easy to use for someone who is technical but not an engineer. The plugins allow us to accomplish certain tasks without having to use the API, but it's great to have the API at our disposal as well.
- We'd love improved search functionality on the platform. For example, we have hundreds of SAML connections for our clients and have to scroll page by page to find the one we want to look up.
- More proactive onboarding and training would've been helpful for my team when we got started using SSO.
Great product, for some use cases
We've been able to go from using an external social OAuth provider to five in just a few days--that included removing our integration with that specific social provider and replacing it with Auth0. Once set up, Auth0 makes it super easy to add more providers. Now we have GitHub, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and can add more as our customers request.
- Authentication
- Managing users
- Authorization
- Integration with basically any provider you can think of--mainly social but not limited to social
- Pricing
- If you're on the free tier, the first-party support isn't the best. It's OK, but you can definitely tell that you're more "on your own" in that tier. Having said that, there are a lot of docs--first- or third-party written--so it's not a huge deal for most cases.
- Vendor lock-in--once you use Auth0, you're really tempted to just stick with them, even if it gets a bit pricey, since it's very easy to just go all-in on using them.
We've found the docs to be super helpful, and there are tons of examples, both on the official website and elsewhere, so you can be pretty sure that whatever use-case you may have, someone already faced it, and written about how to achieve it using Auth0. Being a market leader, and the de-facto auth-as-a-service player really goes a long way here.
With Auth0, customer identity is a solved problem. Use it, love it, then focus on your business.
In the future, we're looking to expand Auth0 to accommodate staff identity and other use cases outside of teaching. This could including general access for non-tutoring staff, membership accounts (which are currently managed by a separate SAAS), and more. This would consolidate Auth0 as our IDP across the board, which it's well-positioned to do so based on early indications. We would also look to benefit from some of the integrations with third parties, to easily federate with SAAS services and simplify access management for our staff.
- The developer experience is top-notch.
- The pricing is affordable and scalable.
- The core functionality is comprehensive and mature.
- Some functionality (eg. SAML2 add-ons) was tricky to configure and required lots of trawling through documentation, trial & error, and sheer persistence.
- Customer success is only interested in helping you if you are a corporate or paid member (they will otherwise refer you to the community forum).
For staff identity, the plot thickens somewhat, but by our initial impressions, Auth0 looks great here too, at least for straightforward use cases.
Auth0 Developer Perspective
We implemented wrapper support to interact with the Auth0 APIs to fetch, update user information, and also verify the user's identity during login. Currently, we have 10 Auth0 tenants configured on our client's Auth0 account. The community support was commendable during the initial phase of the implementation. As it was not quite straightforward, we faced a lot of doubts that were very well resolved by the community members.
But the community support is very active, and the issues are mostly resolved soon.
- Awesome documentation--you will find more or less everything there
- Great community support--people are quick to respond and provide good solutions
- The admin panel is very clean and easy to use
- More support on the Java SDK
- Support for social login in the Java SDK
- More freedom with the login template integration
Great for Small/Medium Projects with Limited Technical Support
- They have very detailed examples of how to implement Auth0 into existing code.
- They have several ways to customize the "out of the box" login/signup functionality.
- Their Sales Team are very responsive and knowledgeable.
- When using the free account (during development), there is very limited access to assistance and troubleshooting. This is when it's needed most.
- Additional examples on each of the "Settings" and "Configuration" sections would be helpful.
Auth0 is taking the pain out of authorization!
- Hosted login pages work well and take a lot of work out of building an auth system.
- Auth0 works well for emailing one-time login codes to users so they don't need to remember passwords.
- Auth0's integration with Google sign-on makes integrations very easy for organizations that already use Google Apps.
- The online documentation is very easy to follow, but is sometimes outdated.
- Better integration with Caddy web server would be fabulous.
- Better support for generic javascript redirects would be nice.
It's good.. Need improvement on several areas
Currently using only Google from Social Provider, since we have technical issues for customization with other providers and Auth0 was not that helpful. Customizing Auth0 requires enterprise-level plan which our budget won't allow, that's why we are using Auth0 only for Google provider.
- Social provider.
- Flexibility for using across multiple technologies.
- Role based access control.
- Database level customization requires an enterprise plan which is costly.
- Support needs to be developed, engineers are literally crying if we ask for remote desktop support to solve issues.
- Pricing should be introduced like pay for what you use on services level.
Auth0 is awesome and if you aren't using it (or at least something similar) you should be.
Unfortunately, the project was paused indefinitely before it could be completed due to a shift of priorities, but the Auth0 implementation was incredibly easy and relieved us of a lot of headache that would come with handling authentication and authorization ourselves.
Their documentation is extensive, detailed, and easy to understand, implementation can be done in hours (for more experienced users, maybe even minutes), and the service is rock-steady stable.
I would never not recommend Auth0 to a friend or colleague setting up a new app or service.
- Implementation is easy
- Extensive documentation for pesky edge cases
- Broad range of features to cover all use cases
- Explaining why incorporating a 3rd party service for authentication is necessary to less technical users is challenging, especially when discussing additional costs
It's so easy to install that there is no reason not to, and maybe if everyone used it we wouldn't have to worry about so many breaches/hacks from shoddy authorization practices.
It's probably not as important for an internal application, where services like Azure AD, etc., are sufficient and public users are not registering
My first time using AUTH0
- JWT Tokens
- Roles
- Types of users
- Different ways to login or register
- More customization of login page, how it looks.
- Options to add more social networks on register.
- Login URL
Easy access to OAuth features
- Easy integration with PHP
- Code examples for different cases
- Easy single sign on and mutifactor authroization
- Some code examples are outdated.
Auth0 Review
- Easy to understand
- Great IAM
- Automation of script is easy
- Good Support
- Need to work on RBAC and ABAC
- Need to provide more documentation so that user can understand this in a better way
Great SSO authentication system without a lot of effort
- JIT (just-in-time) user migration. Auth0 lets you use simple Node scripts to check for users in an old data store when a user signs in.
- Pre written libraries for almost any tech stack or language
- The docs are focused on specific use cases. If you need something different it can be difficult to find the information you need.
- You're building a brand new web service and don't want to deal with authentication
- You want to add social or OTP authentication to an existing web service
- You want to add SSO functionality to your exiting products
Auth0 is a very good option to forget about User Management
- It's an already created Authentication Platform
- No more thinking about implementing the login/logout process
- Can use other method of authentication besides user/password
- There should be more examples how to put the functionality to work on already made web apps
- More easy to use second factor auth
Auth Charitra
Implementation is very simple, scalable, reliable and secure. Developer can easily learn and implement as documentation is proper and helpful.
- Scalable
- Secure
- Easy to implement
- Multi tenancy
- Password Flow with multiple connection
- IAM
Auth0: Not quite perfect but these guys are on the right track
- Secure Auth - for obvious reasons.
- Identity and Access Management.
- SSO via enterprise federation.
- User Management - give people access to the things they need and not the things they don't.
- The User Management UI can be a little tricky at first and isn't quite as intuitive as it could be.
- Federated auth is always painful regardless which tool you want to plug in the AD.
auth zero should be auth infinite
- Moves configuring and mainining security needs out of both the end system and negates the need to keep security information locally.
- Integration with google
Internal Auth0 success
- Good set of APIs
- Multiple options for authentication sources
- Fairly clear web administration interface
- Would be better if the base templates helped with real cases instead of hello world. i.e. a react app with react-router and history as used by most of the react wrap-bootstrap admin templates.
- Sometimes hard to figure out how to get simple information such as username or other details out of the authenticated session
Web app authentication to backend web services (ex: nodejs services)
It is not a user db however, just an authentication ticket, so still have to save most user info internal
The roles system is fairly difficult to adapt to dynamic data security models
All About Okta from IAM person perspective.
- Multi factor authentication.
- Okta universal directory.
- IP zone restrictions.
- Okta Integration Network.
- Agent based configuration for SSO.
- Need more customisation.
Okta have an option to manage or maintain different set of directory managed users in single place.
Okta MFA is very easy to understand from end user perspective.
Okta Admin need not to be a knowledgeable person in Okta tool. Whomever knows about SSO concepts can easily get started working on the tool.
OKTA: The SSO
- MFA factors: it provides an additional security layer for our org
- Unlimited could data for user onboarding
- Application implementation: easy setup and cofig
- High price
- Additional fields should have provided while integrating AD.
Great Service! Must get!
- SSO
- Easy to use
- Great workflows
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- N/A
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A FedRAMP single sign on alternative
- Ease of setup and configuration
- Customer service response
- SLA
- Easy to navigate interface
- User app dashboard
- Little troubleshooting guidance when encountering smart card authentication errors
- Better troubleshooting steps when encountering SAML errors
- A better explanation of the LDAP interface connection settings
- More flexibility in importing and using AD fields
Invisible, Reliable, Unparalleled
- Only allows members of our brokerage into the group
- We can collaborate with each other in a cloud-based mastermind
- Decreased need for repetitive staff or overlap
- Okta Identity Cloud is in the background of what we do, it is not marketing itself to the users
- Our Okta Identity Cloud passport was not well explained at the beginning
Excellent investment for remote-working strategy
- Flexible range of integration points.
- Browser plugin is easy to use.
- Supports Duo authentication and so it can be used to add multi-factor authentication to applications that do not support it.
- Support for mapping roles to privileges on an app in custom integration (eg. SAML) is not mature.
Okta Identity Cloud - Simplified Single-Sign-On for the enterprise
- Active Directory integration.
- Single sign on.
- Multi factor authentication.
- Simple application integrations.
- Better documentation on integrations.
- Better configuration options needed for different environments, e.g. staging, dev.
Ideal solution for single sign on
- Single sign on
- Two way authentication
- Seamless access across various applications
- Can be cheaper
- Licensing cost can have various options