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 Okta Administration Up and Running

You're reading from   Okta Administration Up and Running Drive operational excellence with IAM solutions for on-premises and cloud apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837637454
Length 306 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Lovisa Stenbäcken Stjernlöf Lovisa Stenbäcken Stjernlöf
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1:Getting Started with Okta
2. Chapter 1: IAM and Okta FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Working with Universal Directory 4. Chapter 3: Using Single Sign-On for a Great End User Experience 5. Chapter 4: Increasing Security with Adaptive Multifactor Authentication 6. Chapter 5: Automating Using Lifecycle Management 7. Chapter 6: Customizing Your Okta GUI 8. Part 2: Extending Okta
9. Chapter 7: Okta Workflows 10. Chapter 8: API Access Management 11. Chapter 9: Managing Access with Advanced Server Access 12. Index 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Automating Using Lifecycle Management

In this chapter, we will look at how we can use some of the knowledge we gained in previous chapters for a complete user lifecycle. We will look at how we can use integrations for user provisioning, such as setting up a Human Resources Information System (HRIS) as a sourcing service. We will also dive deeper into editing a user’s profile, for instance, with expression language.

For the groups we learned about in Chapter 2, Working with Universal Directory, we’ll now learn how to use automation to get them to work for us.

By automating the on- and offboarding flows, we not only save time for new hires, HR, administrators, and system owners – we also increase accuracy, but most importantly, security. This is done by making sure tasks aren’t skipped or forgotten by using automation.

These are some of the skills you will learn:

  • Automating user provisioning
  • Provisioning rich profiles
  • Setting up group...
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