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  • Okta Privileged Access and Okta Access Requests

    Okta Privileged Access (OPA) leverages with wider Okta Workforce Identity Cloud capabilities for many use cases. One of these integrations is with the Okta Access Requests components, that comes as part of the Okta Identity Governance (OIG) product, but also ships in a limited form with OPA. This article explores the two common use cases:…

  • Okta Privileged Access – A Look at the Data Model

    This article provides a simplified view of the data model used in Okta Privileged Access (OPA). Note that this is a logical view of data objects and their relationships, and the term “object” is used very loosely (more like data types). Also this is based on the current Early Access product and may change with…

  • Okta Privileged Access – A Technical Introduction

    The new Okta Privileged Access product was featured in the recent Oktane23 conference. The product became Generally Available on Dec 1 2023. This article is a brief technical overview of Okta Privileged Access (OPA) looking at the components, functions and managed resource types of the product. It is written to provide a backdrop for other…

  • Extracting Okta ASA Audit Log with Okta Workflows

    The audit logs in Okta Advanced Server Access (ASA) can be viewed in the ASA administrative interface or extracted via the ASA Audit V2 API (and this is what the integrations with SIEM tools do). But what about the situation where you just need to extract all the logs and process them somewhere? You could…

  • Managing Multiple AD Users in the AD-Joined Feature of ASA

    Okta recently released the AD-Joined feature for Okta Advanced Server Access. This feature extends ASA secured RDP access to Windows servers in an AD domain, leveraging user credentials also stored in Active Directory. The feature supports both traditional password-based access and passwordless access using AD certificates, with the flexibility of having a mix of both…

  • Can ASA Work With a Shared User Directory and Linux Servers?

    Using a shared user directory for user authentication across server farms has been a common pattern since the 1990’s. Microsoft adopted it with Active Directory, but we’ve had NIS deployments for many years. Can Okta Advanced Server Access (ASA) work where user authentication is delegated to a central shared directory? Yes. This article looks at…

  • ASA PreAuthorization with Okta Workflows

    This article explores how standard Okta self-service access requests and Okta Workflows can be used to implement Just-In-Time access to Okta Advanced Server Access. It assumes some understanding of Okta, Okta Workflows and Okta Advanced Server Access objects and capabilities. Just-In-Time Access with Okta Advanced Server Access A common request with Okta Advanced Server Access…

  • Troubleshooting Okta Advanced Server Access (ASA)

    This post looks at the tools to use when troubleshooting issues with Okta Advanced Server Access (ASA). It’s not a “if you see this error, go do this” article – Google is great for that! This will look at where to go look for diagnostic info to help troubleshoot issues. Revisiting the Okta Components and…