Teams
It is the role/oncall rotation dealing with access approvals, random questions, fires and general chaos.
What is cloudboss?
It helps us ensure we don’t collide changes to the same cells.
What is Lockta?
It is the first office where Techops expanded into outside of the US
What is the London office?
It is the account which includes EU1, OK1, OK2, OK3, OK4, OK6, Ok7
What is the aws-prod account?
It is the network security product we use to VPN into Okta’s boundary
What is global protect?
It is the short name of the observability team.
What is Olly?
It is a continuous delivery platform used for releasing software
What is spinnaker?
It is the year S3 was launched by AWS
What happened in 2006?
It is the cell which was split out of ok1
What is ok3?
It blocks anyone from accessing an account even if they have the password
What is 2FA?
This team is primarily focused on our microservices and components, which includes Aerial, LDAPi, Skyhook, and Okta Personal amongst others.
What is IDaaS Ecosystem SRE Team?
It is the automation tooling setup being sunsetted in favor of Spinnaker
What is autopilot?
They are two separate but related hardware vulnerabilities in modern processors that allow unauthorized access to sensitive data from memory in mid 2017 to early 2018.
What are meltdown and spectre?
It was the original name Todd and Freddie chose for Okta before it became Okta
What is saasure?
They are cybersecurity configuration guidelines implemented by DISA for the DOD
What is STIGS?
They technically don’t own any of the careers and help ops teams with projects
What is Agile?
It is the language of choice for ckp
What is GoLang?
It used to be used to execute DB failover before Serenity
What is uprising?
Okta is always on
What is Okta’s northern star?
Is the group which accessed a third-party support provider's employee's computer in 2022
What is Lapsus$?
It is the new name for Spera.
What is ISPM?
It is a cloud-based data platform that acts as a data warehouse, data lake
What is snowflake?
They are the month and year when Okta went public
What happened in April 2011?
It was the reason for data corruption incident caused by AWS in 2018?
What is Bitflip?
It is a powerful solution that elevates your security infrastructure and helps provide controlled access to your critical systems, applications, and data
What is OPA?