Identity 101 Index | Okta (2024)

FAQs

Who is Okta's biggest competitor? ›

The top alternatives for Okta single-sign-on-sso tool are OneLogin with 41.91%, OneAll with 21.64%, AWS Single Sign-On with 5.31% market share.

Azure AD Connect can only sync 1-way from AD to Azure AD

Creating a user in Active Directory then syncs to Azure AD, but it does not go the other way. The Okta AD agent can sync both ways so users can create and manage users in Okta, and then have them written back to Active Directory.

Okta and AuthO are two widely known enterprise identity and access management (IAM) solutions. While both have overlapping features like user management, authentication, and more, they function in a different way.

The Okta Identity Engine is a platform update to Okta's authentication service to give you increased control over how you protect your apps and resources.

Okta's fiscal 2025 second-quarter revenue increased 16% year over year to $646 million, management reported to investors last week. This was driven by a 17% year-over-year increase in its subscription revenue (98% of total revenue).

Okta's popularity stems from being one of the first solutions to push a cloud-based Identify as a Service offering. Other Identity providers, such as AD and Ping, started as legacy on-premise Identity Providers that required customers to install software onto servers on their infrastructure.

User experience limitations: While Okta provides a user-friendly interface, some users may find the user experience less intuitive or visually appealing compared to other identity and access management solutions.

Why You Can't Replace Active Directory With Okta. Unfortunately, Okta cannot serve as a total replacement to Active Directory. This is because AD serves as the identity provider for Windows systems, applications, file servers, and networks. Okta then uses those AD identities to federate users to web applications.

The ownership structure of Okta (OKTA) stock is a mix of institutional, retail and individual investors. Approximately 74.33% of the company's stock is owned by Institutional Investors, 3.78% is owned by Insiders and 21.88% is owned by Public Companies and Individual Investors.

Auth0 core strength is customer identity. With Auth0, Okta has the best product for both use cases. According to Todd, the founder of Okta, workforce identity is a $30B market and customer identity is $25B. The customer identity space effectively doubles Okta's addressable market.

Is Microsoft using Okta? ›

Office 365 continues to be the most popular application deployed using Okta for identity.

Okta provides secure access to your Cisco VPNs by enabling strong authentication with Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). Our MFA integration supports Cisco ASA VPN and Cisco AnyConnect clients using the Okta RADIUS server agent.

Google Workspace's suite of productivity and collaboration tools, combined with Okta's identity management capabilities, offers a powerful solution for remote and hybrid teams.

Okta Expression Language is based on SpEL and uses a subset of the functionalities offered by SpEL. Expressions can reference, transform, and combine attributes before storing them on a user profile or passing them to an app for authentication or provisioning.

The full story: “Our name, Okta, comes from a meteorological term,” said Okta CMO Ryan Carlson. “An 'okta' is a unit of measurement used to describe cloudiness. The number of oktas in the sky can range from zero to eight: if it's zero oktas, it's a clear blue-sky day; eight oktas means it's completely overcast.

Okta's adaptive MFA provides strong authentication across all applications, and supports more third-party MFA factors like U2F, YubiKey, Smart Cards, Google Authenticator and more. Okta requires no on-premises MFA servers, and is easy to use for both administrators and end users.

(NASDAQ: OKTA), the leading independent Identity provider, today announced that it has been recognized as a Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Access Management for the seventh consecutive year. Additionally, Okta placed highest for Ability to Execute among all vendors for the third consecutive year.

The choice between Ping Identity and Okta may come down to the specific needs of your business, factoring in company size, complexity, and future growth potential. In these scenarios, Ping Identity's robust, integrated platform is the best strategic partner for the long-term.

Okta is a secure identity cloud that links all your apps, logins and devices into a unified digital fabric.