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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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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

Setting up group rules

Group automation, or group rules, can be considered the best way to simplify administrators' work with Okta. Anything that requires setup and maintenance and is repetitive work can be automated with Okta's group rules.

Setting up group rules allows you to manage your workforce in bulk and allows you to manage the following:

  • The user directory
  • Application provisioning and single sign-on assignments
  • Security policy assignments
  • Directory and application group pushes

Because of the 360-degree view of a user in Okta, and its assigned groups, administrators can easily deliver quick setup, automation, remediation, and application management when using Okta groups. By allowing users to come in from different sources, and have their groups be added to Okta too, you can make sure the users are correctly assigned and managed by using Okta's group rules.

The strength lies in the simple options for the multitude of functions...

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