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2021 State of Physical Access Control Report

The inevitability of change compounded by an unprecedented global pandemic revealed that organizations continue to struggle with the tension between planning and investing in the physical access control infrastructure needed to meet the evolution of threats. This is among the key findings of the latest survey-based...

Safely Returning to the Workplace

Security professionals have been thrust to the forefront of return-to-work planning as the crisis continues to create a complex set of security and safety challenges. Preparing to return to the physical workplace means adapting to new requirements, implementing new procedures and leveraging technology to alleviate...

Adapt to the Cloud Operating Model

Download the eBook to discover all you need to know about this new DevOps-driven paradigm.

Best Practices: Enforcing Least Privilege Access for Linux Servers

This whitepaper provides a number of best practices to seamlessly extend Okta to your Linux servers in an elegant manner designed for scale and automation. Download the whitepaper to learn more.

Automating Infrastructure Identity with Okta Advanced Server Access

Read this guide to learn how your organization can create a single umbrella of authentication that covers on-premise and multiple off-premise or hybrid clouds.

The Biggest Advance In Security Since Certificates

PASSWORDS ARE FATALLY FLAWED. EVERYONE KNOWS IT. Eliminating passwords completely is the only answer – not using stronger passwords, password vaults, or adding friction with multi-factor authentication. But eliminating passwords is just the beginning. Don't Stop At Passwordless Authentification. Implement...

No Blindspots Toolkit

The evolution of IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) has introduced a new spectrum of benefits for enterprises. The speed, scalability, and ease of set up have made the virtualized computing services of public cloud extremely attractive to enterprises. Unfortunately, the very nature of these dynamic, distributed, and...

Cloud Workload Security

In this eBook, we offer a detailed exploration of four key requirements that we think are critical to cloud workload security based on the Forrester Wave: Cloud Workload Security, Q419 Report. By reading this eBook, you’ll gain an understanding of these areas of importance, and you’ll see why we think Forrester...

Enterprise Guide to AWS Security 2020

Moving to the cloud offers your enterprise a variety of benefits, including increased flexibility, agility, and modern DevOps delivery practices. It also opens you up to new security threats and vulnerabilities. 95% of industry professionals agree—there are good reasons to be concerned. However, with the right...

EMA Evaluation Guide to Privileged Access Management (PAM)

This EMA Evaluation Guide is intended to provide actionable guidance on the key elements to consider when selecting a PAM solution and how to ensure the investment achieves organizational requirements for security and usability. Download this guide now to better understand how modern PAM solutions offer among the...

Cloud Identity and Access Management

Read this guide to learn how your organization can gain visibility of the full cloud IAM picture to assess, prioritize, and remediate improper permission combinations that grant unintended or overly permissive access.

Why Passwords Stink

There are hundreds of billions of passwords in the world today, with more being created every day. In fact, the average business user maintains an astounding average of 191 passwords.1 Unfortunately, these passwords represent a fundamentally weak link in most organizations because they will always be...

IAM Best Practices for Higher Ed IT Leaders: Governance vs. Automation

As budgets continue to be in flux, and IT and security teams in higher education institutions must reduce risk using fewer resources, automation—a key business enabler—is becoming paramount. The main benefits IT leaders are hoping to achieve by completely automating their IAM practices are reduced security...

Forrester Best Practices: Identity Management And Governance

The Forrester Report outlines 10 core functional areas of identity management and governance (IMG) and provides the best practices for building and operationalizing an effective IMG program across each functional area. Key Findings of the report: Rightsize user roles to overcome overprovisioned group...

Gartner Market Guide

According to Gartner security and risk management (SRM) leaders responsible for identity and access management (IAM) and fraud detection should "Target a SaaS or cloud-based deployment first, dropping back to on-premises only if there are specific needs that cannot be overcome or addressed." Key Findings of...