Directory integrations

If your organization is fairly new, there is a big chance that it was born in the cloud. Probably, you're only using cloud services and your user directory is 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. Many organizations like this are not ready to leave their Active Directory (AD)/ Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) behind. Not to 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 explained earlier, this becomes a problem when companies are moving toward cloud applications. Many cloud applications have their own directory...