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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The Okta Identity Cloud has the Key!
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Okta makes our resource access better so we can we can serve our customers more efficiently
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%
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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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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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(1-25 of 29)The Okta Identity Cloud review from global NGO
- Provisioning
- User data mapping
- User access auditing
- Admin user interface
- Master data management
- Reporting
The Okta Identity Cloud review by an enterprise customer
- Integrated very well in Cloud Applications
- Enhanced security with multifactor authentication
- Single sign on of all our applications
- Enhanced user management with assigning the right applications for their need
- Integration with SAP and Azure needs more improvement
- Needs more improvement with the Mobile version of the tool
- Documentation on break fixes is not sufficient
When it comes to SAP, integration with The Okta Identity Cloud was a little tedious.
Great platform!
- Storing of information
- Securing data
- Compiling our systems and tools in folders
- User interface
- It would be nice if we can add themes.
- Faster security verifcation
The Okta Identity Cloud: Amazing single-console sign on saves wasted time on password issues.
- Single Sign On
- Waste Less Time
- Once in a while, there are some glitches that still require me to login manually.
One satisfied customer
- Easy to integrate
- Documentation
- Reliable
- API first approach
- Usability of Adaptive MFA features (Self-service)
- Disaster Data Recovery support (Not available)
Excellent developer experience at a price
- User database and management
- Hosted login and logout
- SDKs for almost every framework
- Many tutorials and guides
- More in-depth guides for other frameworks like Svelte
- More competitive pricing (eg. vs AWS Cognito, Azure AD B2C)
- Pricing details beyond 10K MAUs
One point authentication solution
- Real time accurate push authentication notifications
- Password recovery management
- Accessibility on any platform
- Approve authentication device dependency
- A specific authentication can only be granted for maximum time frame of 24 hours. One had to re-authenticate an access session after 24 hours.
Easy and customizable platform
- RBAC is simple, straight forward and easy to manage
- Integrations of Social Login are simple to configure and the Auth0 documentation shows step by step how to configure it
- Rules/Hooks provide customization to the Auth0 flow, making it a great solution to define how we allow our users to login into our applications
- Backup policy! As of today, Auth0 does not provide a centralized way of backing up the information and users in the tenants. From a B2B perspective, this could be a great tool, because it would simplify the backup and data recovery process for the Auth0 customer
- Import users as a strategy that creates a new user is weird, from a Data Recovery perspective
- No dashboards to monitor the status of logins, users and data flow between web application and Auth0. This coud be a great tool to customize by our needs, as a way to visualize data and create reports
Okta Checks All of the Boxes
- Identifies location when signing into systems
- Ensures data privacy
- At times, SSO verification takes several minutes when we need it done ASAP, but this is very rare.
Having a good time using Auth0
- No-code user management and authentication solution
- Social login provider integration
- Built-in username-password user database
- Occasional downtime and slowness
- Easier access to database for export to a data warehouse
- Login experience is hard to customize
Auth0 wouldn't really suit you if you already have a working system with your own user database. It might be less appropriate for privacy-intensive applications, as the user data isn't really data you'd like to share or have outside of your own infrastructure.
- Intuitive dashboard which allows management of applications, users, and auth-flows.
- Great documentation.
- Great developer community which the Auth0 team is actively engaged in.
- Top of the line customer support.
- Price point for ALL features can get a bit pricey. But they have a startup plan which helps big time. Developer plans start at $23/mo and do not include all features.
- Actions, rules, hooks, and email customization are great features, but the UI is a bit tough sometimes, not very responsive to screen size and code editors are cut off in a difficult place to maneuver.
- Maturity of the platform.
- Documentation.
- Available SDK's and libraries.
- Sample code.
- API Explorer.
- A standard mechanism to back up all tenant data would be great.
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.
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
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.
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
Best solution for Workforce Identity and CIAM requirements!
1. Staff Single Sign-On
2. Customer authentication
3. Customer federation
For staff SSO, we have pretty much all of the Okta Identity Cloud SKUs except for Advanced Server Access and Access Gateway and the main purpose of Okta Identity Cloud was initially for Single Sign-On, but we're also now leveraging the LCM capability for SCIM provisioning against supported cloud services.
For the customer side, we leverage Okta Identity Cloud UD for application authentication and we also leverage the software to allow us to federate with our customers (Okta Identity Cloud acts as the SP).
- Okta Identity Cloud makes it very easy to configure Single Sign-On using either SAML2 or OIDC by leveraging either a pre-built integration within the Okta Integration Network, or creating a custom integration if there isn't one (or you require more flexibility than what the pre-built one offers). We have configured SSO in single-digit minute(s) when using Okta Identity Cloud compared to other products.
- With Okta Identity Cloud there is no on-premise infrastructure to manage in order for it to function, as it is all hosted in the cloud in AWS. Only agents are hosted within your network, if you require such functionality, but they require very low maintenance. Network security is high as the agents make outbound calls to Okta Identity Cloud, so no inbound connectivity is required for them.
- There is no hidden cost with Okta Identity Cloud, and they are constantly releasing functionality into the platform that fits into existing SKUs. Over the five years that we have used them, they've only changed SKUs a handful of times and none have been disruptive.
- For those of us who use and know Okta Identity Cloud, it is the de facto standard to use for Staff SSO capability. I come from an IBM background and I would rather use Okta Identity Cloud any day than go back to using TFIM for federation. Please don't even mention ADFS!
- Okta Support is very responsive and there is a support portal to raise tickets against. Alternatively there are also numbers to call should you prefer to talk to someone.
- Okta Identity Cloud has a great set of APIs for automating administration activities, and courtesy of their developers there is also a good set of SDKs and sample code on how to integrate Okta Identity Cloud using various programming languages.
- Prior to the introduction of Okta Identity Cloud's workflows feature, trying to customize the platform to meet business logic was quite difficult, if not impossible. That was one of the downsides of using a service like Okta Identity Cloud compared to say a product like ISIM from IBM.
- Trying to track down causes of provisioning errors (or any other issues) can be quite challenging as an admin using just the data available from the system log. It usually will require some sort of support ticket but fortunately, the support team are very responsive.
- At present, Okta Identity Cloud lacks governance features such as segregation of duties, recertification, role-based access control, along with approvals. Should you require these features, you would need to handle them outside of Okta Identity Cloud such as within a service management tool and then leverage APIs to automatically perform the task in Okta Identity Cloud, or manually assign to an admin.
- The Okta Identity Cloud administration console is not mobile friendly at the moment, which is a pain if you are looking to do some quick administration task away from your workstation.
From an end-user perspective, Okta Identity Cloud is very easy to use and the end-user portal can be configured to be the central source of all shortcuts. All of this is available from anywhere and any device should your organization allow it.
From an admin and security perspective, Okta Identity Cloud provides the capability to simplify the application access experience through Single Sign-On, and through its LifeCycle Management capabilities it also enables automated handling of Joiner, Mover, and Leaver requirements. The Adaptive MFA capabilities allows us to leverage Okta Verify, but also FIDO/WebAuthN compliant keys and allows us to enable passwordless authentication within the organization while still maintaining a high level of security.
Okta Identity Cloud currently lacks any identity governance capability, so that task would need to be handled either manually or via another platform at the moment.
Simple to deploy and easy to use
- SSO is extremely convenient.
- The password remembrance is very nice for those sites where true SSO is not available.
- Nice integration with AD and other items for group management and provisioning.
- The password manager is a bit clunky.
- Could use a form fill option for webinar registrations and the like.
If a company were to be wholly on-premises and AD-connected, there's not much reason to have Okta or any other cloud-based SSO.
I can't imagine IAM without Okta
- Flexible authentication policies and authenticator options.
- Continuous improvement of the platform on top of an already robust featureset.
- Easy integration with thousands of SaaS and on-premise web applications.
- Device trust option for Windows devices depends too heavily on on-premise infrastructure.
- Departed users can be challenging to manage through admin console.
Okta could improve on reporting and governance features. I would like to see better efforts to enable access certification.
Okta does simply the best job
- Ease of use.
- It can host and manage multiple different software.
- Very simple and clean interface.
- The log out time (due to security) can be a bit of a pain.
- No help center for customer support.
The best SSO and MFA solution on the market
- The adaptive MFA is really flexible to each organization's needs. Being able to adjust MFA requirements based on location and application helps protect the data that needs to be protected, but allows for ease of use for other applications that don’t require as stringent protections.
- Multiple levels of administrative rights allow organizations to distribute responsibilities to different teams and allowing them to assist in the administration. Examples are an IT Help Desk Team and an Application Security Team.
- Set up is actually quite simple. Some applications do require a little more assistance, but for the most part, its applications are easy to integrate.
- Session cookies have been frustrating. Rather than having an expiration date, they are activity based. Some applications will reject assertions is the Okta session is too old, so having a perpetual cookie messes things up. The option to change this is something that is desired.
- Connections to Active Directory are excellent, but there is little control over syncing. It’s either manual or every hour. Change based syncing would help simplify things.
Auth0: Safe and secure SSO experience
- SDKs in every possible technology
- Excellent customer success engineering support
- Developer friendly integration processes
- Logging of user activity on on-premise appliance based deployments.
- Better support for embedded login which allows the client's portal to manage login experience as per their choice.
- Better version upgrade management of application.