How to Improve Okta Security in Four Steps

Okta serves as the cornerstone of identity governance and security for organizations worldwide. However, this prominence has made it a prime target for cybercriminals who seek access to valuable corporate identities, applications, and sensitive data.

While Okta provides robust native security features and recommended best practices, maintaining proper security controls requires constant vigilance. Configuration drift, identity sprawl, and misconfigurations can provide attackers a way into Okta and other apps if left unchecked.

This article covers four key ways Nudge Security can help you proactively secure Okta as part of your efforts to harden your identity security posture.

1. Continuous Configuration Monitoring

Even if you have enabled all of the native security features in Okta and followed their security best practices guidelines, configuration drift can happen over time.

As part of its comprehensive SaaS security posture management capabilities, Nudge Security continuously monitors your Okta environment and alerts you if you’ve drifted away from security best practices or if the native security features are not enabled. You’ll be alerted to configuration risks like:

• Excessive session lifetime limits
• Disabled threat detection functionality
• Missing behavior detection settings
• Disabled threat insights functionality

2. Identity Risk Detection

As roles and responsibilities change and users join and leave the organization, you can end up with forgotten accounts and users with admin privileges that are no longer appropriate. Nudge Security continuously scans for these risks and notifies you of findings like:

• Inactive privileged accounts
• Admin accounts with weak or missing MFA
• Admin sprawl
• Former employees with lingering access
• Inactive accounts and those that have never logged in

3. Ensure Secure Access to Okta

Given Okta’s important role in securing access to business critical systems, attackers know that if they can gain access to Okta, they can often make their way into other systems with valuable data. Nudge Security helps maintain proper Okta account security by continuously:

• Ensuring MFA is required for enrollment
• Enforcing strong password policies
• Discovering OAuth grants and API tokens that grant access to Okta
• Detecting logins from multiple Okta users from the same device

4. Streamlined Remediation

It’s one thing to get alerted of security gaps, but yet another to ensure they are resolved. And, prioritization is critical to ensure that the most significant risks are mitigated first. When security issues are detected, Nudge Security doesn’t just raise alerts – it enables efficient resolution through:

• Risk-based prioritization of findings
• Detailed context and recommended actions for each finding
• Automated remediation workflows that engage the appropriate stakeholders
• Progress tracking on remediation efforts

Securing your Okta environment requires ongoing attention and proactive management. By implementing Okta security best practices, organizations can better protect their critical identity infrastructure and reduce the risk of security incidents.

Nudge Security provides the continuous monitoring, automated detection, and streamlined remediation capabilities needed to maintain a strong security posture for Okta and your other business critical SaaS apps.

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