What exactly does Okta do?

Okta, Inc. is a publicly traded identity and access management company based in San Francisco. It provides cloud software that helps companies manage and secure user authentication into applications, and for developers to build identity controls into applications, website web services and devices.

Where is Okta located?

San Francisco
Okta is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and has 14 office locations across 10 countries.

Is Okta legit?

Okta Identity Management has a solid reputation in the IDaaS space and their service backs it up. Their robust support for multiple identity providers, coupled with how well they do everything else expected from an IDaaS solution, pushes Okta Identity Management to the top of the list.

What is Okta tool?

Okta is a platform in the Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) category, which means that it gives you and your colleagues access to all other (company) software with one login. Okta is available on your computer, laptop, mobile phone or tablet, allowing you to access your applications anytime and anywhere.

Is Okta a VPN?

Okta uses the native VPN capabilities that are built into the mobile operating system to leverage existing VPN solutions and enable easy access to on-premises resources.

Why is Okta popular?

Microsoft customers also choose Okta for identity because of its strong partnership and broad integration with Microsoft products including Office 365, Windows 10, Azure Active Directory, SharePoint, and Intune. Okta’s cloud-based identity solution works great with Microsoft and other technology vendors.

Who makes Okta?

Todd McKinnon
Todd McKinnon is the CEO and co-founder of Okta, the leading provider of enterprise identity, which he co-founded in 2009 with Frederic Kerrest.

Who is the CEO of Okta?

Todd McKinnon (Jan 2009–)
Okta/CEO
Okta CEO Todd McKinnon used much of a recent all-hands meeting with employees to talk about the importance of taking vacation. He asked them to email him with their upcoming plans, and said he received close to 1,000 notes in his inbox.

Who runs Okta?

Okta CEO Todd McKinnon told his wife in 2008 that he was bored at Salesforce and tried to convince her that it was the perfect time to start a new tech company. At the time, McKinnon had just been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, and he had a six-month-old daughter.

Why is Okta good?

Okta helps organizations connect different populations and geographies without the need to set up Active Directory Trusts, modify firewall policies, or invest in more infrastructure to connect them all together.

Is Okta free?

Okta Cloud Connect is free for FRT-Okta-FreeTrial-General-EML and includes the following: Perpetual license & unlimited user count.

Can Okta replace VPN?

However, with Okta’s identity management features and Cloudflare’s edge network, you can replace your VPN entirely. You just connect Okta to Cloudflare, and every request to your applications behind Cloudflare will be authenticated by Okta.