People & Org
Name of our newly merged organization encompassing ODA, OV FastPass, and Device Assurance.
What is Device Identity and Access (DIA)?
By deploying FastPass and Device Assurance, our customers are primarily looking to achieve this modern security model.
What is Zero Trust?
On macOS, Okta Device Access achieves its seamless login screen integration by utilizing this specific Apple architecture plugin model.
What is an Authorization Plugin (or AuthPlugin)?
We partner with this team to ensure that when a user gets a new feature, there is a helpful guide on Help.Okta.com.
Who is the Documentation/Info. Dev team?
This capability ensures that a device meets specific security criteria, like OS version or disk encryption, before granting access.
What is Okta Device Assurance?
Three-letter acronym represents the team focused on extending identity to the machine login level.
What is ODA (Okta Device Access)?
Customers use this specific Okta product to ensure that an employee's laptop has a firewall enabled before granting them access to Salesforce.
What is Okta Device Assurance?
To ensure that our mobile authenticators are actively shielded from reverse engineering, runtime tampering, and code inspection, we integrate this app protection and obfuscation platform into our build pipelines.
What is Digital.ai (formerly Arxan)?
We partner with QA to embrace this specific methodology—moving automated testing and validation as early into the development pipeline as possible.
What is "Shift-Left" testing?
Customers aiming for the highest level of strict compliance use FastPass because it satisfies this specific, heavily regulated authentication standard mandated by many government frameworks.
What is Phishing-Resistant MFA ?
To standardize how we estimate engineering effort across the organization, our teams are transitioning to this specific mathematical sequence for Jira ticket sizing.
What is Fibonacci sizing?
This customer shares a product/service name with Okta’s Product name.
What is Disney?
To intercept the Windows lock screen and inject our Okta Desktop MFA prompts, the ODA Windows client is built by implementing this specific, low-level Microsoft COM interface.
What is a Credential Provider (or ICredentialProvider)?
This team works with us to ensure that the user interface for Okta Verify looks clean, accessible, and intuitive.
Who is Product Design (or UX/UI)?
This specific cryptographic standard ensures that an authentication session is strictly bound to the hardware it was requested from, preventing session token theft.
What is DPoP (Demonstrating Proof-of-Possession)?
The DIA pillar, along with the rest of Core Identity, ultimately rolls up to this SVP of Engineering.
Who is Stefan Krantz?
This professional sports organization uses Okta to manage identity not just for its corporate office, but to securely connect all 30 of its clubs, players, and stadium operations.
What is Major League Baseball (MLB)?
I deliver push on Android Devices
What is Firebase Cloud Messaging/FCM?
This team takes our technical architectures and translates them into pitches and Go-To-Market strategies for buyers.
Who is Product Marketing (PMM)?
Team is celebrating my departure (aka sunset)
What is Okta Mobile?
I recently joined DIA pillar (internal xfer) and now working on expanding OV to a new platform
Who is Renaud Lepage?
This leading federal government contractor specifically uses Okta FastPass to help them meet strict cybersecurity compliance requirements, including controls for NIST 800-171 (CMMC).
What is ManTech?
To ensure sensitive identity data and tokens remain strictly encrypted at rest on devices, Okta Verify utilizes SQLCipher, which is maintained by this specific applied cryptography company.
What is Zetetic?
For FastPass to evaluate complex, context-based routing, our client apps must maintain a tight integration with this foundational, policy-driven Okta backend platform.
What is OIE (Okta Identity Engine)?
In our macOS ODA architecture, this specific enhancement to Platform Single Sign-On ensures that cryptographic keys used to bootstrap user sessions are securely generated and bound directly to Apple’s tamper-resistant co-processor.
What is PSSO Secure Enclave? (Also accept: Platform SSO with Secure Enclave)