Tag: Roles
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Role Analysis with Okta ISPM – Are My Groups and Roles Being Used Effectively
Okta Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) performs analysis on groups and roles which can be used to tune access via groups/roles and reduce risk. This article explores how to use ISPM for role analysis. Background Roles and a role-based identity system have been the Holy Grail for identity governance and administration (IGA) practitioners and products…
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Automating Realm Creation in Okta with Workflows
The new Realms feature in the Okta Workforce platform and the Secure Partner Access (SPA) product built on top of it are designed to make management of discrete user populations simpler. Realms can be managed via the Okta Admin Console. But what about when you want to automate the process, such as onboarding a large…
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Assigning Administrators to Realms in Okta
Realms were introduced into Okta to provide an alternative mechanism for delegated administration with discrete user populations. A key aspect of this is the administration – you may need to have different types of administrator roles for the users in the realm, but also allow cross-realm roles. In this article we explore configuring administrators for…
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Requesting Roles Through OIG Access Requests
This article looks at how Okta Identity Governance (OIG) can be used to provide a role-request feature in Access Requests. The example used is roles for Salesforce. What Roles? If you’re familiar with the Okta Identity Cloud data model, you will know there are users, groups and applications but no roles (other than roles to…