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Okta Announces Kickoff of Identity 25 Nominations
Following the remarkable success of last year’s Identity 25 report, Okta is excited to announce the launch of the 2025 Identity 25 nominations, expanding the opportunity for innovators across the identity landscape to be recognized by their peers and the public alike.
By Okta · Via Business Wire · November 21, 2024
NetHope and Okta: Securing Digital Protection and Cybersecurity for Nonprofits Worldwide
NetHope, a catalyst for collective impact that advances humanitarian, conservation, and international development efforts worldwide, has partnered with Okta, in a groundbreaking initiative aimed at enhancing cybersecurity resilience across the nonprofit sector. This strategic partnership, underpinned by a $2.5 million commitment from Okta for Good, Okta’s philanthropic arm, over five years will unlock more resources to strengthen the security posture of nonprofits. It will support a safer digital ecosystem for nonprofits worldwide by unlocking more resources to protect these organizations’ to increase their confidence in their security posture for the billions of vulnerable people they serve around the world.
By Okta · Via Business Wire · October 23, 2024
Okta is Reducing the Risk of Unmanaged Identities, Social Engineering, and MFA Overload for Enterprise Employees
Okta today announced new Workforce Identity Cloud capabilities to address top security challenges such as unmanaged SaaS service accounts, governance risks, and identity verification. As part of a unified approach, these innovations help protect business before, during and after authentication, providing greater control, visibility, and streamlined user experience.
By Okta · Via Business Wire · October 16, 2024
Okta Helps Builders Easily Implement Auth For GenAI Apps & Secure How Consumers Interact with GenAI Agents
Okta today announced a new Customer Identity Cloud product to help developers and organizations secure identity in GenAI applications, through secure identity standards and a seamless developer experience. With these new features, Okta customers will be able to easily implement support for typical patterns in GenAI applications.
By Okta · Via Business Wire · October 16, 2024
Okta Announces Finalists for SaaS Startup Competition to Build Identity Security Applications
Okta, a leading identity and access management company, today announced the three finalists for its inaugural Okta SaaS Startup Competition. These finalists, selected for their innovative use of identity-enabled workflows, will pitch their solutions live at Oktane24, taking place in Las Vegas from October 15-17, 2024.
By Okta · Via Business Wire · October 7, 2024
Okta Announces SaaS Startup Competition to Build New Identity Security Applications
Okta, a leading identity and access management company, today announced an inaugural Okta SaaS Startup Competition. The competition invites early stage startups, incorporated in the US, that are building applications using identity, privacy, and security enabled workflows to showcase their innovations.
By Okta · Via Business Wire · July 17, 2024
Okta to Host Investor Day Webcast
Okta, Inc. (NASDAQOKTA), the leading independent identity provider, today announced that it will webcast the Opening Keynote of Oktane22 and Investor Day on November 9, 2022. The company also announced today that it will release its financial results for its third quarter fiscal year 2023 ended October 31, 2022 after the U.S. market close on Wednesday, November 30, 2022. Each presentation will be webcast live on the investor relations section of Okta’s website at investor.okta.com. Details for each event are as follows:
By Okta · Via Business Wire · November 2, 2022
NetHope, USAID, and Okta Establishing an Information Sharing and Analysis Center with Support from CyberPeace Institute
NetHope, USAID, and Okta (NASDAQOKTA) are pleased to announce a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for establishing an Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) committed to supporting the increase of cybersecurity shared services and tools for the humanitarian sector. CyberPeace Institute, an independent and neutral NGO committed to assisting humanitarian NGOs to prepare against cyber attacks, also intends to join the MOU.
By Okta · Via Business Wire · September 8, 2022
Okta Welcomes Experienced Financial Executive Jeff Epstein to Board of Directors
Okta, Inc. (NASDAQOKTA), the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise, announced the appointment of Jeff Epstein, the former Chief Financial Officer of Oracle, to its board of directors, effective May 25, 2021. Jeff brings more than 30 years of experience in financial leadership at public, global enterprise technology, and marketplace companies. Jeff will serve as audit committee chair.
By Okta · Via Business Wire · May 26, 2021