ASA – a high-level overview

Throughout this book, we have only spoken about managing applications. With ASA, Okta expands its touch surface by securing access to the server infrastructure. By doing so, the road to zero trust becomes a reality for more parts of your business than just users, applications, and devices. Also, as cloud adoption becomes an increasingly important DevOps job, making sure automation is the driver to it all is where Okta fits in.

Managing servers in your organization as part of your infrastructure, or as part of your business model, means that your developers and/or administrators need to have access. This access is normally given using privileged accounts, either using the command-line interface (CLI) with Secure Shell (SSH) or with privileged accounts accessing the server with Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). These accounts are granted access based on the role of the accessing user, but over-privileged access can quickly become a problem. Commonly...