Identity Management as the Key to IT Modernization

Technology has revolutionized how we interact with the world around us. The critical systems we rely on are pervasive in every imaginable format and on every connected device. Unfortunately, our security practices haven’t kept pace with this evolution and every day people and companies fall victim to identity theft, data breaches and irate customers and employees.

In this talk, we’ll look at the industry approaches to authentication and authorization, the tradeoffs that come with each strategy, and how we can, and why we must do better. By changing our mindset and building on a reliable foundation of well-established standards, we can protect our systems and users now and into the future.

Identity has never been more important. From yesterday’s legacy solutions to today's sprawling hybrid IT environment, centralizing and automating identity access, security and governance is a challenge. A modern, identity-aware infrastructure is essential for today’s enterprise to proactively address current and future security risks and compliance needs, while effectively meeting the evolving strategic needs of the business.

You invested in your current identity solution to strengthen security and improve operational efficiency, but is your current solution able to address the evolving needs of your business?

Tune into the webinar featuring Darran Rolls, SailPoint CTO and Mark Settle, Okta CIO to discover:

- How to future-proof your security infrastructure with identity access and governance.
- Best practices to improve end user productivity, strengthen compliance and security, and reduce IT and helpdesk operational costs.
- Industry trends and how modern identity access and governance solutions will evolve.

2020 marks the start of a new era in government IT. Even compared to a few months ago, the governments’ operational needs and security priorities have undergone a paradigm shift. Federal, State, and Local government IT leaders are quickly scaling work from home support to unprecedented levels, despite many organizations lacking needed infrastructure and security controls for a perimeterless work environment.

Join government and industry experts to discuss how agencies are adapting to the changing environment to meet the needs of the immediate crisis. Equally important, we’ll ask how these circumstances can inspire long-term change in how employees, partners, and contractors to securely connect.

Our live panel will discuss:

- Security: Scaling agency remote workforces
- Access: Delivering access on-prem and in the cloud and keep the environment secure with VPN enhancements or alternatives
- Collaboration: Improving agency collaboration across shared resources

The explosion of devices and communication channels in recent years presents government with a serious dilemma: How do agencies interact with citizens who increasingly rely on smartphones and tablets for public services?

Citizens expect government agencies to meet them on their terms, and today that means a quality customer experience (CX) that’s digital, seamless and unfolds on any channel, device or platform they choose. More importantly, customers also expect their business with agencies to be private and secure. Agencies that can’t meet these demands risk losing citizens’ confidence and trust, but developing secure, frictionless CX is easier said than done.

Fortunately, modern, cloud customer identity and access management (CIAM) can help improve the citizen experience and build trust in your solution. Attendees joined Okta for a live webinar to explore how agencies can strengthen their CIAM strategy.

Many organizations have plans to support some level of a remote workforce, but, as we’re discovering, these plans didn’t often include essentially abandoning on-premises environments and pushing the entire workforce into remote offices and homes basically overnight. Even as companies shut down their facilities, IT pros are working overtime to figure out how best to support this shifting paradigm.

In this webinar you'll learn:
- How to get your work from home environment underway or expanded
- Where you may have holes in your current policies and technologies
- Ways to help accelerate and secure your deployments

A lot has changed since organizations first adopted federated identity-based solutions. Applications, data, and IT resources have moved outside the corporate network to IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS based solutions, each acting as its own resource domain with policies, authorization models, and sessions. Organizations are rethinking their identity and security architectures to address the shrinking perimeter based on zero trust principles.

While we have modernized some of the key standards and protocols with OpenID Connect and SCIM, we haven’t really revisited the core IdP/SP relationship to address the needs of the modernize enterprise, including solving challenges like continuous auth in a best of breed world. In this session, we’ll explore the challenges and opportunities for a modern identity and access control plane is a cloud and mobile-first world.

Technology is constantly on the change,Microsoft is no different. Discover how Okta integrates with Microsoft products such as Office 365 and Windows 10, including Okta’s integration with AAD Conditional Access, Windows AutoPilot and Windows Hello for Business. Learn how to reduce your on-prem footprint, customize your O365 life cycle functions and automation using Okta Workflows and move to a modern approach to adopt your Microsoft tools of today and tomorrow.

Presented by:
Venkatesh Gopalakrishnan, Director of Product Management, Okta
Snegha Ramnarayanan, Sr. Security Specialist, Okta
Vijay Pitchumani, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Apps, Okta

Is managing your users' lifecycles challenging? Do you rely on scripts, manual processes and tickets? In this session we cover the basics of lifecycle management and discuss pertinent features in the Okta Lifecycle Management product. Specifically, we address how to integrate authoritative sources and automate onboarding/offboarding. We'll show a demo of Lifecycle Management and hear from Merz Pharma about how they use the technology.

Presented by:
Nima Attarzadeh, Senior IT Consultant Digital Media Global, Merz Pharma GmbH & Co. KGaA
Sonali Singh, Solutions Engineer, Okta
Sarah Farnsworth-Kumli, Associate Solutions Engineer, Okta

In this talk you'll learn about the latest developments with the OAuth and OIDC specs directly from the standards group. The latest additions to the specs enable richer experiences and better security for applications using OAuth.

FedEx solutions connect people and possibilities. Connecting people with goods, services, and ideas creates opportunities and improves lives. FedEx believes that a connected world is a better world, and that belief guides everything they do. FedEx team members are at the core of the connected world and securing the devices, applications, and services used by those team members is not only critical to the success of their business - it’s a requirement. In this session, learn how the FedEx Cybersecurity team is deploying the Okta Identity Cloud using a Zero Trust Security approach to more than 500k team members.

Presented by:
Pat O'Neil, Cyber Security Fellow, FedEx
Trey Ray, Manager Cybersecurity, FedEx
Ryan Rudnitsky, Sr. Customer Success Manager, Okta
Prashanth Karne, Cybersecurity Principal, FedEx

In this webinar, leaders from Okta’s Security Team and special guests discuss how Okta addressed the unique challenges created by this distributed working environment, including trends in security threats, the risk posed by vendors, protecting people including extended internal and external workforce, partners, and vendors.

Presented by:
Christopher Niggel, Senior Director of Security and Compliance, Okta
Yogesh Badwe, Senior Director of Information Security, Okta
Vijay Rao, VP of People Operations, Okta
Sheel Patel, Director of Strategic Sourcing, Okta

Discover how Okta's IT and Workplace leaders rapidly enabled an entirely remote workforce, how the company leverages best-of-breed technology to overcome distance, and how this paradigm shift will impact employees as the company plans to move employees back into the physical workplace once it’s safe.

Presented by:
Chris Flynn, VP of Employee Enablement, Okta
Brooke Lierman, Senior Director of Workplace Technology, Okta
Tom Caliwagan, IT Service Desk Manager, Okta

Learn from Okta’s IT leadership about how the company’s 100% cloud-based architecture played a critical role in supporting business agility and sustaining workforce productivity for both IT and employees during this transition.

Over their 100-year history, Nexteer Automotive welcomed technology advancements and innovations. They continue this journey in the era of digital transformation to fuel productivity, efficiency and innovation.

While modernizing IT led to automation and productivity gains it also significantly increased their attack surface in a time when cyber threats are all too common. The complexity of legacy infrastructure, on-prem apps, and adoption of cloud apps, produced a multitude of end-user entry points. This complicated both security and user lifecycle management.

Join CISO Arun Desouza from Nexteer to learn how they used identity as the lynchpin to connect disparate systems and applications. He will discuss how they used identity management to:

- Reduce reliance on servers and complex architecture requirements of AD FS and MIM while deploying O365 with Azure AD.
- Improve user lifecycle management by provisioning employees into all on-prem and cloud apps using HR-as-a-Master.
- Integrate identity with network security infrastructure to reduce breaches and gain immediate visibility to when and where threats take place.

Don’t want to miss this opportunity to hear how Nexteer used identity architecture to connect everything and improve ease of use, scalability, automation and productivity.

About the speakers:

Arun Desouza is Chief Information Security & Privacy Officer at Nexteer Automotive Corporation. Previously, he served as CISO and Director, Strategic Planning and Information Security at Inergy Automotive Systems. Arun’s expertise includes security strategy, risk management, identity management, cloud and privacy.

Sibrina Subedar is a Director of Product Marketing at Okta. She spent 12 years at Cisco in many roles including Customer Advocacy & Product Management and working across many technologies like routing, switching, security, VoIP. The following 3 years at NetApp she started with product management on security products.

Cost savings, storage, ease of updates. The allure of the cloud is hard to ignore, with some reports citing over 90% of organizations using cloud services in some manner. But all the benefits of the cloud disappear if you can't keep your data and users safe. In a perimeter-less world, it's identity that becomes the heart of security. Join us to discover why modern security starts with identity first and how identity can help overcome cloud frustrations.