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What does Okta do?
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What does Okta do?

Identity theft is not a joke, Jim

Justin
Dec 21, 2020
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The TL;DR

Okta is an enterprise-focused identity provider: they take care of managing usernames, passwords, and permissions so you can focus on your apps. 

  • If you’ve ever used “sign in with Google” to log into an app, you’ve used Single Sign On (SSO) - a way to outsource identity to third-party providers

  • When you build SSO into your app, you use Identity P…

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