Directory integrations

If your organization is fairly new, there is a big chance that it was born in the cloud. You may be only using cloud services and your UD might be in one of your applications, perhaps your collaboration platform. You will probably want to use Okta as your new identity directory going forward. But for other organizations, your users may have been living in a separate directory for ages, and you might have multiple hardware and infrastructure connections to that directory. The most common directory services are Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), and many organizations like this are not ready to leave them behind. Don’t worry – Okta can integrate with multiple directories and synchronize users, groups, attributes, and passwords.

Previously, this directory setup was sufficient, but with the shift in perimeter that was explained in Chapter 1, this can become a problem when companies are moving toward...