The power of collaboration shines at Gartner IAM 2025 The Gartner IAM Summit in London (March 2025) highlighted a significant industry shift towards interconnected, real-time security, with overwhelming interest in the OpenID Foundation's Shared Signals Framework (SSF) and Continuous Access Evaluation Profile (CAEP).  Moving beyond theory, the…

If you’re building a SaaS product for the enterprise market, identity can no longer be an afterthought. It needs to be an essential part of your product strategy. In this post, we’ll walk through how the identity landscape is shifting and what enterprise buyers are demanding. We’ll also cover how you can use secure, standards-based integrations to…

It’s not so long since IT teams in higher education were viewed primarily as the folks who reset students’ long-forgotten passwords or restarted the projector when it froze during a lecture. Today, you’re cybersecurity guardians, responsible for protecting a more interconnected infrastructure than ever. The rise of cloud computing and hybrid…

I have been at Okta for over a year, and as someone working in identity and access management (IAM), it was time to earn my Okta certification. I knew getting certified would help validate my skills, and to be completely honest, as I started to see all my colleagues get Okta certified, I felt a little FOMO. Here’s a look at my experience — from…

You’ve probably heard the phrase “identity is the new perimeter.” It’s repeated often in security circles, and for good reason. In most companies, identity has long been considered a supporting function. It’s treated as a gateway to systems, a set of policies to manage access, and a line item on the security checklist.  But the landscape has…

The risk of conflicting access Imagine a finance employee who can both create and approve vendor payments. Without proper safeguards, this conflicting access, often called a toxic access combination, can lead to compliance violations, security breaches, and financial misconduct. Organizations need a way to enforce access controls proactively, but…

Employees require secure access to the apps and tools they depend on, anytime and from any device, regardless of location. For this to be possible, organizations need an identity security fabric that provides end-to-end protection to secure identities and seamless orchestration and integration across security tools to respond to threats in real…

In 2024, Verizon reported that 45% of data breaches in a recent year involved the use of stolen credentials. At the same time, 90% of identity stakeholders said incidents directly impacted their business. With the costs of security breaches exceeding  $4.8 million at the latest estimate, the need to securely manage identities is greater than ever…