Okta Identity Platform [Private Offer Only]

We had a client based out of the UK who was a broadcasting company. Okta Platform was used for single sign-on. We had our Google Workspace with approximately 10,000 plus users and we managed the Okta Platform admin side, the SAML configuration and related tasks. Basically, it was SSO and assigning apps to users so that they could seamlessly log into the apps through their Google Workspace account via Okta Platform.

The client I was working with was in the entertainment industry and is a leading provider of broadcast services. They host many TV shows across the UK and across the globe. They have their own application and website running. We were able to sync Okta Platform with their Google Workspace.

From my perspective and experience, I was involved with the identity part of Okta Platform admin side. I was able to configure users and effectively sync the essential things in Google Workspace, which are organizational units, groups, and other elements. That was a sync that we used to work with. Okta Platform was our primary identity provider solution and we used to sync it with Google Workspace.

I also have previous working experience with Microsoft Entra ID, but I did not find it as effective as Okta Platform. Entra ID has lots of sync issues in their Active Directory and it is a nightmare for someone who is new to identity and access management. Okta Platform is user-friendly. I never faced any issues using Okta Platform. My experience has been good overall.

The benefits that I see are the user-friendliness and the ease of configuring it on the admin side. Additionally, there is a feature to track the logs of user activity, including when the user has logged in and what activity they have performed. It syncs in real-time, which is something that I really appreciated.

I cannot think of any such feature right now. Most of the features were pretty basic. In my limited experience, things have been great. I cannot really think of anything that can be enhanced. If they can focus on keeping it up all the time and focus on reducing the vulnerabilities that may exist, that would be great, but nothing that I can think of right now.

I have worked for about two years with Okta Platform. The last time I worked with it was in my previous organization. I joined a new organization two months ago. I stopped working with it two months ago, but I have two years of overall experience working with Okta Platform.

We had a user base of approximately 10,000 plus users. It was once in a blue moon that someone would report that they were not able to log in or were getting 404 errors. It has always been seamless, but there is always some uncertainty about when an app can get buggy. There were some outages, but I think they were fixed really quickly, so it was not a big deal for us.

We had a user base of approximately 10,000 plus users. It was once in a blue moon that someone would report that they were not able to log in or were getting 404 errors. Okta Platform handled the scalability well for our organization.

We never interacted with Okta Platform customer service because everything worked fine. The sales team may have been involved, but from the solution side, we never reached out to them. We used to reach out to Google Workspace mostly. I am not very sure about their support capabilities.

I have worked with Microsoft Entra ID as well. The first thing that you notice is the user interface. Okta Platform is a lot simpler, whereas Entra is a nightmare. Everyone in the industry agrees about this most of the time. Another thing is the overall ecosystem of Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, and LDAP. Configuring that is a nightmare because many things are outdated in today's systems and they do not sync well with the cloud. Okta Platform seamlessly integrates with everything. We can integrate it in our CI/CD pipelines, we can integrate it with Google Workspace, and it is very seamless. Configuring Okta Platform has been really easy for us, so we always preferred it.

When I stepped into the project, it was already set up. From what I know, it was straightforward and integrating it with Workspace was not a big issue.

I do not have details about setup costs because it was directly purchased by the client. We were on the solution side, not on the sales side.

We did not use Okta Platform for GenAI purposes, so I cannot comment on that.

We did not use it for containerized workloads for authenticating those workloads. It was a basic configuration for SSO into our Google Workspace accounts. We did not use Okta Platform for that. We had a different workflow for that. Basically, we used WIF for containerization purposes and we had a sync with GitHub as a workload identity pool. That was a different setup, but we did not use Okta Platform for authenticating the pipelines and containers.

We also had service accounts in our Google Workspace. Everything was synced. Service accounts have a different identity compared to user accounts. It was not very different. We used the same protocols of SSO.

Previously, before I joined the project, there were a lot of issues authenticating via the traditional Google methods. We had to integrate a lot of in-house apps and external third-party apps. That posed a security risk because if we provided access to all the Google access scopes directly to those apps, it would be a nightmare. We configured them via Okta Platform through our SSO, so that only the authorized personnel were able to log into those applications and not everyone could have access. I saw a lot of improvement in the overall security posture.

I do not have any recommendations. My experience has been fair. Okta Platform should focus on remediating the vulnerabilities in the ever-evolving AI landscape because the IDP is critical. If someone has access to the IDP, they can get access to the whole system. They should keep evolving. The review rating I have given for this product is 9.

My main use case for Okta Platform is for authenticating users, specifically in user authentication.

I use Okta Platform for authenticating users in web applications. I have used it for Naranja X, which is a mobile bank in Argentina that has about 11 million users on our platform, and we are using Okta Platform to authenticate users. Recently, I have also used it for Ernst & Young to authenticate employees to access the internal platform.

I do not have anything unique to add about my main use case with Okta Platform; I have a lot of users to connect to a platform. Normally, it is a simple use case involving authenticating users and two-phase authentication.

The best features Okta Platform offers include an API that is very easy to use for creating new customers, setting up, and customizing for our use cases. I do not see any unique features, but the basic features are well-done.

The API makes my work easier because it is very simple to use for our web and mobile applications to connect them. Our applications are built using Next.js with a back-end in Node.js or Python, and it was very simple to integrate. I have used Cognito and Auth0 before and do not see any big difference, but Okta Platform does the basic things well.

Okta Platform has impacted my organization positively by providing much better security, as it implements the best patterns for security. I do not need to worry about implementing authentication myself, which is very simple and much more efficient as a solution since I just call the API and everything is done. I do not need to have code replication across several services. The user experience for administration is very easy, making it simple to manage the platform, create a client, add or remove customers, and understand the logs of what is happening inside authentication. For end-users, it works and offers a very simple, comprehensive solution for authentication.

I would like to see Okta Platform become simpler for users, as I think that is the most important thing. I am an experienced engineer with 35 years of experience, but it could become simpler for new engineers who are just starting and building applications using LLMs. An IM supervisor integration with Cloud Code could improve integration with agent functions.

I cannot think of any improvements needed for Okta Platform at the moment; I think what it has is very great.

I have been working in my current field for about 35 years.

In my experience, Okta Platform is stable; I have had no downtime with the platform in our use case.

I have not conducted any specific evaluation for performance or availability with Okta Platform, but the performance is good, and everything is fast. You do not need to think about performance with Okta Platform; it just works.

Okta Platform's scalability seems good; I have 11 million users on the platform, with about 500,000 online at the same time, and everything works well without any issues regarding scalability.

I have not needed to contact customer support for Okta Platform because everything works for me. When there are issues, it has been another team handling the situation, and as far as I know, everything works fine without issues.

Before using Okta Platform, we previously utilized Auth0, and we switched from Auth0 to Okta Platform due to pricing reasons.

Before choosing Okta Platform, I evaluated other options including Auth0, Cognito, and Google Cloud IAM, as well as considering creating our own internal platform for authentication. After assessing the best options, I selected Auth0 and Okta Platform, and eventually switched to Okta Platform after their commercial team proposed a better price for our company.

I do not have metrics on the return on investment from Okta Platform, but I know that it works because everyone is happy with the solution implemented, even though I do not focus on the numbers for my organization.

Regarding Okta Platform's AI capabilities, you have an expectation of 100 percent accuracy and reliability. I think that is relatively easy if you have an IMCP for Okta Platform that guarantees everything is working. It is another aspect that should not require thought; it should just work seamlessly for authentication implementations.

Okta Platform helps secure access to APIs, containers, and Kubernetes in our architecture. However, I do not have any AI services in our production environment yet.

My advice for others looking into using Okta Platform is that it is a great solution that works well, but they should pay attention to the cost. With a lot of users on the platform, it could get expensive, so they should do the math to see if it works for their specific use case. Overall, for features, I think Okta Platform is satisfactory and usable without problems. I would rate this review a 9 out of 10.

For workforce identity management with Okta Platform, I mostly use it for the joiner, mover, and leaver process, and whenever it comes to the application, I am integrating SCIM provisioning to make the users aligned with the applications on the fly.

Regarding my main use case for Okta Platform, for access governance, I maintain all those certifications as well, and for non-human identities, I also manage them in Okta Platform itself.

Okta Platform's single sign-on and access provisioning features have helped my organization by being quite seamless. The user gets onboarded on the fly with Just-In-Time provisioning enabled, which helps propagate the users across the organizational applications.

The behavioral detection and threat detection features of Okta Platform are very good. They provide insights into the behavioral pattern of user access management and inform the administrator of any kind of intruder detections or threat analysis, making it very useful to use Okta Platform for maintaining identities.

Okta Platform has positively impacted my organization by bringing more automations with Okta Workflows, resulting in a drastic change in the manual efforts, as most things are being automated and Okta Platform is very convenient with their workflow management.

The impact on manual efforts with Okta Platform means that for some activities in my day-to-day business that used to take around an hour or two, it is now reduced to seconds, and I am getting things done much faster.

The needed improvements mostly pertain to the ISPM, especially in posture management.

This means that whenever there are changes or a change audit occurs, Okta Platform should provide details on what exactly is happening, who is making the change, what values are changed from past to the current one, providing more insight into the change audit process.

I find Okta Platform scalable, as it can easily handle more users or workloads as my organization grows.

I would rate the customer support a nine out of ten.