Okta is an identity and access management company headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. Founded in 2009 by Todd McKinnon and Fred... See Okta open jobs and get referred by a verified employee on RefOpen.
Okta is an identity and access management company headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. Founded in 2009 by Todd McKinnon and Frederic Kerrest, both formerly of Salesforce, the company provides cloud-based software that controls how people sign in to applications and what they are permitted to do once authenticated. It listed on the Nasdaq in 2017.
The company describes itself as an independent identity provider, meaning it is not tied to any single cloud or productivity platform and can sit in front of applications from many different vendors at once. Its business is organised around two main product lines. The Workforce Identity Cloud secures employee and contractor access to internal systems, providing single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, lifecycle management that provisions and deprovisions accounts as people join and leave an organisation, privileged access controls and directory integration. The Customer Identity Cloud, built largely on the Auth0 platform acquired in 2021, gives software companies the tools to handle registration, login, authorisation and account security for their own end users, so product teams do not have to build authentication themselves.
Okta's platform integrates with several thousand applications through a pre-built catalogue, which is central to its market position: the value of an independent identity layer grows with the number of systems it can connect. The company also invests in emerging authentication standards, including passwordless sign-in and passkeys, and in identity threat protection that monitors sessions for indicators of compromise after login rather than only at the point of authentication.
Customers span technology, financial services, healthcare, government and education, and include a substantial share of large enterprises alongside smaller software companies. Identity has become a focal point of enterprise security as organisations moved to distributed cloud applications and remote working, since stolen credentials are a common route of attack, and Okta positions its products accordingly as security infrastructure rather than convenience tooling.
The company sells on a subscription basis, priced per user and per product module, with growth driven by expanding the number of products sold into existing customers as much as by winning new ones. Okta implements and contributes to open identity standards including SAML, OpenID Connect and SCIM, which allow identity data and authentication to move between systems from different vendors, and it maintains developer tooling and software development kits inherited and extended from Auth0. It competes principally with Microsoft, whose Entra ID product is bundled into widely held enterprise licence agreements, alongside Ping Identity, CyberArk and the identity offerings of the major cloud providers. Okta also publishes an annual report on application adoption drawn from aggregated, anonymised usage across its customer base.
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Okta operates in cybersecurity, is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, employs around 5,001-10,000 people. 108 Okta roles have been posted on RefOpen in the last 30 days.
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