2021

Workforce Identity

Identity-First Security
Why prioritize identity and access 61% of all breaches involve stolen
management? credentials
Identity is key to securing all access points across (Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report 2021)
employees, contractors, partners and customers to
protect against threats - internal and external. Using
identity as the central control point for delivering Security outcomes achieved when
access to enterprise resources, organizations are using IAM
enabled to:
Prevent account Mitigate account
− Ensure users are authenticated and devices are takeover lockouts
secure
Adhere to Minimize
− Broker access to all critical resources, including
compliance error-prone
SaaS apps, on-prem apps, APIs, networks, and manual
requirements
infrastructure onboarding/off
− Ensure the right amount of access for the right Secure boarding tasks
amount of time long-term
distributed/re Align access to
− Ensure access is removed automatically when mote work risk levels
required
− Prevent lateral movement in the event that Okta’s solution
identity is compromised
The Okta Identity Cloud helps organizations deliver
− Rapidly mitigate the risk of compromised strong identity access controls across their entire
credentials ecosystem - maximizing security, while minimizing
If an organization is not 100% certain about the the impact on the workforce.
legitimacy of the user initiating the access request, By centralizing controls and leveraging thousands of
any other form of security or access controls the pre-built integrations across both resources and
organization may have in place becomes irrelevant. other security tools, teams can more easily deploy
This is why Identity and access management is the and manage intelligent access for any resource
core security solution that organizations start their type, on-premises or in the cloud, and end users can
Zero Trust journey with. more easily get access to the tools and data they
need, when they need them.
− Protect all of your people and resources
“Identity-first security has reached critical
− Deliver seamless user access
mass.”
Gartner, Top Security and Risk Management Trends 2021 − Easily integrate with your preferred tech stack

Technology-forward organizations use Okta to evolve their businesses

340k FedEx team members 69% increase in MFA 90% reduction in time and Eliminated 400 monthly help
globally use Okta to access adoption across the 3,000+ costs to prepare desk tickets after deploying
700+ SaaS and legacy on-prem employee company in under company-wide compliance Okta to 120k users across 50
apps 2 weeks reports countries