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PCR catches up with Ben King, CSO EMEA at Okta to find out more about its Digital Trust Index. Okta, an identity and access management company recently published the Digital Trust Index. The survey captured the sentiments of more than 13,000 office workers, including over 2,000 in the UK, to …
Read More »Okta’s Auth0 acquisition will combine developer and enterprise expertise
Okta, Inc. has acquired Auth0, an identity platform for application teams. Auth0 will operate as an independent business unit within Okta, led by Auth0 Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder Eugenio Pace, reporting directly to Todd McKinnon, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Okta. “Identity is one of the most strategic …
Read More »Okta announces new products and enhancements for Oktane21
Okta has introduced Okta Privileged Access and Okta Identity Governance for identity governance and administration (IGA). The Okta Integration Network has also expanded across four main areas, including risk and fraud, customer data orchestration, data privacy and compliance, and the software development lifecycle. These new integrations leverage identity to help …
Read More »The New Okta Developer Experience: Secure Applications, APIs, and Infrastructure
Okta, Inc.’s new Okta Starter Developer Edition provides developers tools to embed Okta authentication, authorisation, and user management into applications at scale. The new Okta Starter Developer Edition is now available at no cost for up to 15,000 monthly active users. It delivers coverage for multiple applications and includes access to …
Read More »Digital trust in businesses remains fragile as UK consumers increasingly aware of data misuse
Businesses are struggling to maintain trust in a digital world, as 88% of Brits would not use services or purchase products from an organisation they distrust, and 64% have serious reservations about using a brand they haven’t heard of before, according to new research from identity firm Okta and YouGov. The Okta …
Read More »PCR Nov isue Life in the Channel: Okta’s Stevie Dennis
Stevie Dennis, Regional Alliances Manager UK&I at Okta, gives her take on learning from experience, post Covid remote working relationships and embracing diversity Tell us a bit about your experience in the channel and your current role at Okta Working in the Alliances team at Okta is my perfect job! …
Read More »Apptio acquires SaaSLicense
Apptio, Inc., has completed its acquisition of SaaSLicense, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) discovery, optimisation, and management product. The SaaSLicense platform connects to customers’ single sign-on (e.g., Okta), financial (e.g., NetSuite), and SaaS (e.g., Zoom, Box, Slack and Tableau) systems and automatically detects all SaaS software usage and spend across an Organization. …
Read More »Okta welcomes new president worldwide field operations, Susan St. Ledger
Okta, Inc. has appointed Susan St. Ledger as president of worldwide field operations. St. Ledger will join Okta’s executive management team and report to Todd McKinnon, CEO and co-founder. St. Ledger will start at Okta on February 1, 2021 and Charles Race, Okta’s current president of worldwide field operations who …
Read More »Okta appoints Alvina Antar as CIO
Okta Inc. has appointed Alvina Antar as its new Chief Information Officer. Antar formerly headed up subscription-management company Zuora, where she spent six years as the company’s first ever CIO, leading it through a successful IPO in 2018 and seeing its revenue grow from $30 million to $300 million. Prior to …
Read More »How can we can elevate Women in STEM?
Having undergone the struggles of growing up in war-torn Afghanistan, Okta developer Sara Daqiq, argues that more female representation is key towards the progression of the industry… Stats today show that only 15 per cent of Engineering graduates are female. STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) has, in the past, been male dominant, which in …
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