Introduction

In today’s digital era, identity management is crucial for organizations of all sizes. Managing user access, entitlements, and security is not only a compliance requirement but also essential for protecting sensitive assets and maintaining operational efficiency. Okta Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) is a comprehensive solution designed to streamline IAM processes while ensuring compliance. Okta IGA offers worry-free solutions that make your organization’s compliance easier with modern IGA tools.

Okta IGA offers two components:

• Access Certification Campaign: Okta Access Certification Campaign enables organizations to understand who has access to what resources and to make sure users access to those resources are reviewed and certified periodically by designated approvers to meet the audit ad compliance.

Eg: A quite prevalent scenario in most FinTech Companies: If there is a financially significant app in the org being accessed by a certain group of users, then the Access Certification campaign helps the admin to produce a report that showcases who has access to what, who have been accessing the significant entitlements in the application to meet internal and external audit requirements.

Benefits

• Detecting risks related to accessing secure assets has become easier than ever.
• Enables organizations to align and adopt the Zero Trust Framework and strengthen their security posture to stay ahead in the modern digital market.
• Enables organizations to review and revoke access deemed to be accumulated or unauthorized leading to reduced license costs.
• Increased Audit readiness, Compliance, and Data regulatory requirements

• Access Requests: Okta Access Requests provide users with self-service request access to apps and resources. It orchestrates automated access request fulfillment by eliminating error-prone rubber-stamping manual processes. It also lowers the burden of IT teams by being responsible for fulfilling low-risk access requests.

Eg: A newly onboarded user in Okta can request access to birthright apps like Outlook, Slack, etc. by using the Access Request Flow app chiclet available on the end-user dashboard without waiting for IT Team to provision manually.

Benefits

• Increased employee productivity from day 1 by automating the provisioning of birthright apps based on roles.
• Reduced IT and Support Teams overhead by replacing the error-prone manual access fulfillment with an automated provisioning process.
• Extends flexibility by offering integrations with chat and collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams & Slack, and ticketing software like Jira & ServiceNow.
• Improved requestor’s (end-user) experience as it allows them to request access to apps via Slack and Microsoft Teams.
• Improved approver’s experience by letting them review and approve requests via Slack and Microsoft Teams, delivering quick request fulfilment.

Conclusion

In today’s digital landscape, effective identity governance and administration are imperative and go beyond standard IAM practices by administering the identities, meeting compliance requirements and audits for compliance reporting. By practicing IGA, organizations can adopt the Zero Trust Architectural Framework to maintain security, compliance, and operational efficiency. Okta IGA is a comprehensive solution that empowers organizations of any size to manage user identities and accesses effortlessly. As businesses thrive to evolve towards the cloud-centric architecture, Okta IGA serves to be an invaluable tool in the identity and access management landscape.