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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

Creating layered and app-specific policies

Another way of creating layered policies is by applying MFA to specific applications. You can choose to either do this for signing in to Okta, for signing in to the application, or both, as mentioned earlier. The reason why you might want to add MFA policies to an application, even though you have already enabled it to sign in, can be the following:

  • An administrator of an application needs to authenticate with a factor with higher security than what is rolled out for signing in to Okta, to get access to that application.
  • A C-level (top management role) user needs to authenticate with a factor with higher security than what is rolled out for signing in to Okta, to get access to an application with business-critical information.
  • You need to enforce extra security for certain applications outside of the office network.

To add MFA to an application, navigate to Applications | Applications. Select the application you want...

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