Oktane20: Lifecycle Management 101

The rapid shift to remote, distributed workforces has forced IT professionals to quickly support new/expanded ways of working. In addition to extending access to resources and enhancing security from more locations and devices, IT now is challenged with rethinking already time-intensive onboarding and offboarding processes. According to a recent survey of IT leaders, these manual efforts sap budgets and productivity, and increase your security gaps. Okta can help you reduce the burden on IT and provide more security. In this live webinar, we’ll talk about the benefits of automating onboarding and offboarding and how Okta Lifecycle Management can help streamline many of the manual processes that you likely have in place today.

Telework involves way more than getting your employees up and running with video conferencing—it requires a massive shift in how people work and how you think about securing users and their devices.

Join the 10-minute webinar to learn:

- What two tactics the most successful IT orgs are prioritizing in 2020
- How to accelerate app deployment
- How to extend secure access controls to both new tools and existing tools in one place
- How to build a consistent, positive user experience for your remote workforce

A year ago, only about 3.4% of the total U.S. workforce worked remotely. Although it’s too soon to accurately count the uptick in remote work, suffice to say the number has grown exponentially since all of our lives were upended by the coronavirus pandemic.

Federal, state, and local government agencies have faced immense pressure to continue providing citizen services while also keeping their employees safe. But with such a quick and massive shift in the workforce, many agencies scrambled to cobble together work-from-home solutions. From issuing devices to deciding on collaboration platforms, they had to move fast to keep fundamental services running.

Thankfully, many agencies were able to quickly adapt – even more so due to efforts in the last two years to modernize core IT infrastructure. If this crisis had hit six months or a year earlier, many organizations would not have been in as good of a position as they are now to keep the status quo while working remotely -- but that doesn’t mean it was an easy transition, and there’s still work to do to support agency workers’ on-going productivity in this ‘new normal’.

Looking ahead, implementing a Zero Trust security model can help agencies mitigate cybersecurity issues and challenges they face with telework, both immediately and in the long-term.

While Okta has always supported remote teams, it was not anticipating the seemingly overnight shift to an entirely remote workforce in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This drastic change introduced new challenges and opportunities for our technology leaders. Learn how Okta's IT and Workplace leaders rapidly enabled an entirely remote workforce, how the company is leveraging best-of-breed technology to overcome distance and the impact this paradigm shift will have as the company plans a move back into the physical workplace.

Presented by:


Chris Flynn, VP, Employee Enablement
Brooke Lierman, Sr. Director of Workplace Technologies
Tom Caliwagan, IT Service Desk Manager
Lindsey Bly, Sr. Product Marketing Manager

Can Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) improve online customer experiences? Computer Weekly’s Bryan Glick quizzes Max Faun from Okta.

•How organisations are unintentionally creating poor customer experiences online
•Why data silos and disjointed experiences could be killing your profits
•How you can accelerate your organisation’s CX transformation

While distributed workforces are a new model for many security organizations, Okta’s security teams have been enabling and securing a substantial remote and mobile workforce for years. Join leaders from Okta’s Security Team and special guests to learn how Okta has addressed the unique challenges created by this distributed working environment, including:

Trends in security threats as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic
Understanding the risk posed by vendors
Protecting our people, including the extended workforce; contractors, partners and vendors

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

Passwords have been a constant throughout the internet era. As we’ve moved from desktops to smartphones, from on-premises infrastructure to cloud services, we’ve all relied on passwords to access and safeguard our data and resources across the applications we use on a daily basis.

But in this new digital age where data breaches are rampant, passwords are no longer good enough. Not only are they insecure, they are expensive and offer a poor user experience. Fortunately, there’s a better way to protect your applications and stop account takeover incidents.

In this session, we’ll discuss the benefits of passwordless authentication and explain how eliminating the password can help improve user experience, admin visibility and control, and scalability. We’ll also walk through key considerations and first steps as you embark on your passwordless journey.

Watch this webinar to hear a panel discussion with CSOs from Okta, CrowdStrike, Netskope, and Proofpoint on how they are staying on top in today’s threat landscape, navigating through the challenges that come with a predominantly remote workforce, and share best practices they’ve learned and adopted.

When Nasdaq’s legacy identity solution proves unequal to the task of keeping employee identities secure across an increasing number of internal, cloud, and mobile platforms, the company turns to Okta. With a single solution, Nasdaq solves security, reliability, and usability issues, freeing the company to take its place at the technological forefront of the financial industry.