Okta Introduces New Okta Privileged Access Product to Strengthen Security and Agility of Critical Computing Resources
April 07 2021 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
New product unites privileged access management
with enterprise identity to eliminate disparate systems and improve
Zero Trust security posture for organizations
Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA), the leading independent provider of
identity, today at Oktane21, announced Okta Privileged Access, a
new product that unifies identity management with flexible, least
privilege access controls for critical infrastructure to increase
development speed, operational agility, and improve Zero Trust
security at the deepest levels of enterprise technology
environments. With Okta Privileged Access, the complex management
of highly sensitive access to secure hybrid and multi-cloud
infrastructure resources is made simple and accessible. Watch all
of Okta’s product announcements at Oktane21.com.
The explosive adoption of technology across the enterprise over
the last few years has resulted in organizations using a wide array
of critical computing resources. However, the adoption of security
policies for these hybrid and multi-cloud environments lags behind
innovation. Traditional privileged access management (PAM)
solutions prove to be too brittle to adapt to the constantly
changing resource and user types that come with cloud-based DevOps
organizations. To meet today’s needs, modern enterprises require a
real-time, Zero Trust security strategy anchored in identity and
privileged access management spanning IT, security, and engineering
teams.
“Okta has had tremendous success helping customers secure access
to their applications, APIs, and servers. Today, we’re taking that
to the next level with Okta Privileged Access,” said Diya Jolly,
Chief Product Officer, Okta. “We’ve taken our centralized,
identity-centric policy framework to completely shift the
traditional shared account and credential model of legacy PAM,
enabling just-in-time access through ephemeral credentials. With
Okta Privileged Access, enterprises can efficiently achieve Zero
Trust security at the deepest levels of the enterprise from
databases and containers to fleets of servers.”
Securing Critical Computing Resources with Identity
Okta Privileged Access unites flexible, least privileged access
requirements with identity to enable organizations to accelerate
and strengthen Zero Trust security posture. Fine-grained, user, and
role-based security policies can be applied seamlessly from a
central system to manage who can access what at the infrastructure
level. Further, compliance outcomes become streamlined by tying
session logging to specific users in a centralized view. Okta
Privileged Access can be deployed to production faster than any
alternative and builds on Okta’s proven success in securing
critical infrastructure with Okta Advanced Server Access.
Benefits of Okta Privileged Access include:
- Increase risk mitigation: Minimize the attack surface
area of privileged accounts and credentials by offering
just-in-time, least privilege access controls.
- Reduce operational burden: Unite privileged access with
identity to enable the retirement of legacy PAM products and
error-prone manual operations.
- Enable velocity at scale: Deploy with automation to
remove barriers to cloud adoption and help support the delivery of
highly available, resilient, performant, and secure production
software.
“Thousands of servers power Zoom’s frictionless communications
experience,” said Gary Chan, Head of IT Infrastructure and Employee
Services, Zoom Video Communications, Inc. “And with millions of
people turning to Zoom each and every day, security is very
important for us, even at the deepest layers of our technology
stack. Okta helps us to secure our core infrastructure at scale
with a flexible, identity-centric solution for privileged user
access and management.”
The Power of Identity: A Unified Approach to Access
Management, Privileged Access, and Identity Governance
Okta is proud to deliver a comprehensive single control plane
for access management, identity governance, and privileged access.
Okta’s unified platform meets enterprise challenges by bringing
together core identity use cases in one centralized experience.
Okta’s unified approach to access management, identity
governance, and privileged access delivers:
- A single control plane: Leverage a single platform for
identity governance and privileged access as well as one system to
collect audit logs for compliance – making setup and management
easier, while offering the best user experience.
- Faster time-to-value: Achieve security, productivity,
and compliance outcomes more quickly and effectively than any
alternative through a SaaS delivery model that provides
frictionless management across any hybrid or multi-cloud
environment.
- Seamless automation: Enable end-to-end identity
governance processes across applications, infrastructure, and APIs
at any level of scale using Okta’s extensible APIs and no-code
Workflows.
Availability
Okta Privileged Access will be available in Q1 2022. For more
information, visit:
https://www.okta.com/products/okta-identity-governance-and-okta-privileged-access/
Any unreleased products, features or functionality referenced in
this release are not currently available and may not be delivered
on time or at all. Product roadmaps do not represent a commitment,
obligation or promise to deliver any product, feature or
functionality, and customers should not rely on them to make
purchase decisions.
About Okta
Okta is the leading independent identity provider. The Okta
Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right
people to the right technologies at the right time. With more than
7,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure
providers, Okta provides simple and secure access to people and
organizations everywhere, giving them the confidence to reach their
full potential. More than 10,000 organizations, including JetBlue,
Nordstrom, Siemens, Slack, T-Mobile, Takeda, Teach for America, and
Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their
workforces and customers.
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