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Okta Eliminates Passwords, Backed by New Okta ThreatInsightOkta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA), the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise, today announced that organizations can replace passwords with stronger authentication for employees, partners and customers with the launch of Okta's new contextual access management features. By combining signals such as device, location and network context, with threat intelligence from across Okta's ecosystem through new ThreatInsight functionality, organizations will be able to use Okta's contextual access management to eliminate the login password as a primary factor of authentication. ThreatInsight will be available in both Okta's new Adaptive Single Sign-On (SSO) and enhanced Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA (News - Alert)) products. "The best password is no password at all. Today's threat actors are targeting the weakest point of your company's security - your people - and too many are successfully compromising employee accounts due to poor or stolen passwords," said Todd McKinnon, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder, Okta. "Over the past few years, we've invested heavily in new security technologies that provide the right level of protection for the many apps and services an organization uses today, which can vary by company, app, user and scenario. Now we're using both those signals across a user's login context as well as insight from across our ecosystem to improve an organization's ability to set stronger access controls and make faster, more intelligent decisions when there may be a concern - allowing companies to replace the password with stronger, simpler authentication."
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response team "Brown-Forman is one of the largest American-owned distilled beverage companies, responsibly building alcohol brands such as Jack Daniel's, Woodford Reserve and Korbel. We're committed to providing a safe, inclusive workplace and a secue customer experience. Ensuring the right people have access to sensitive company resources is at the heart of making that happen," said Elias Oxendine IV, Global Director of IT Security, Brown-Forman Corporation. "Okta's new ThreatInsight and behavioral signals give us insight into every authentication attempt, helping us to simplify the user experience and more quickly take action if something appears amiss. With Okta, we can better protect the most important and often most vulnerable part of our security - our people."
Okta's contextual access management allows companies to eliminate the
password Examples of how IT administrators could set contextual access policies both for people in their enterprise ecosystem and in their digital products for customers include:
"National Bank of Canada services millions of clients in hundreds of branches across Canada. As an organization, we have clear objectives, one of which is to simplify the customer experience," said Alain Goffi, Vice President, IT Infrastructures, National Bank of Canada. "Okta's smart authentication and contextual capabilities enable us to give our clients a seamless, secure online experience."
New Adaptive SSO product, enhanced Adaptive MFA Okta Adaptive SSO will provide the same seamless, simple authentication experience for users with the ability to integrate with a third-party enterprise mobility management solution, such as AirWatch (News - Alert) or MobileIron, for device trust. Okta SSO and Adaptive SSO will also allow organizations to use PIV card support, and take advantage of insights from Okta ThreatInsight.
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