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Okta Administration: Up and Running

You're reading from   Okta Administration: Up and Running Implement enterprise-grade identity and access management for on-premises and cloud apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800566644
Length 268 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Lovisa Stenbäcken Stjernlöf Lovisa Stenbäcken Stjernlöf
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with Okta
2. Chapter 1: IAM and Okta FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Working with Universal Directory 4. Chapter 3: Single Sign-On for a Great End User Experience 5. Chapter 4: Increasing Security with Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication 6. Chapter 5: Automating Using Life Cycle Management 7. Chapter 6: Customizing Your Okta GUI 8. Section 2: Extending Okta
9. Chapter 7: API Management 10. Chapter 8: Managing Access with Advanced Server Access 11. Chapter 9: Leveraging Access Gateway for Your On-Premises Applications 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using Okta Workflows

Okta Workflows is a GUI-driven no-code automation tool Okta released in 2019. This large pool of functionality allows Okta to be capable of managing different aspects of the user life cycle more granularly. This differs quite extensively versus the simpler automations we talked about in the previous section. Workflows allows you to incorporate dozens of applications, and your own functionalities as part of a workflow.

Important note

Workflows is part of the Advanced Life Cycle Management (ALCM) product from Okta and requires additional licensing. Not every Okta org will have these features.

Workflows can do a lot. Let's look at a few use cases:

  • The provisioning and deprovisioning of app accounts: Okta Workflows can automatically detect and act on newly added accounts. These newly joined employees with their Okta account will be assigned to the required applications, be granted the necessary entitlements, and even receive folder shares based...
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