Author: Dany Leclerc

With a wealth of experience driving some of the largest Mission Critical End Points deployments across Transportation, Retail, Healthcare and Field services, Dany has spent over a decade focusing on Security and Cloud computing in both Europe and Australia. Dany chose to join Okta, the leader in the Identity Access Management and Customer Identity, after the pandemic accelerated the drive toward digital transformation, demanding an increased focus on securing Identity.

Extend your End Point Security posture with Okta Chrome Enterprise Device Trust Connector 

Okta continue to extend the security posture of enterprise end points with the release of a new dedicated integration with Google which offers Device Assurance Policy on ChromeOS and a new set of device signals from the Chrome browser itself that includes access policy based on the type of Browser and so much more! Requirements: … Continue reading Extend your End Point Security posture with Okta Chrome Enterprise Device Trust Connector  →

Setting up Okta Workflows with your Okta WIC/CIS tenant

If you have an Okta Workforce Identity Cloud or Okta Customer Identity Solution tenant then you are eligible for 5 Free flows to use within the Okta Workflows Platform. This article is to guide you step by step on how to set up Okta Workflows with your Okta tenant. Prerequisite: Okta Workforce Identity Cloud or … Continue reading Setting up Okta Workflows with your Okta WIC/CIS tenant →

Enforcing device assurance on unmanaged devices (BYOD)

One of the biggest challenges for organisations is being able to increase the security posture of their employee's BYOD devices while respecting their privacy and improving their user experience. Okta announced recently the new feature called Okta Device Assurance which allow organisations to increase the posture of their BYOD's users leveraging Okta Verify Application. Until … Continue reading Enforcing device assurance on unmanaged devices (BYOD) →

Zoho ManageEngine Service Desk Plus Lifecycle Management with Okta Workflows

Setup Instructions This document is designed to provide the required configuration to enable Okta Workflows to provision and deprovision users to ManageEngine / ServiceDesk as Requesters and Technicians. Step 1 – Create Okta Groups Go to your Okta tenant’s administration console, go to Directory > Groups and create the following groups: Requesters Technicians These groups … Continue reading Zoho ManageEngine Service Desk Plus Lifecycle Management with Okta Workflows →

Microsoft Office 365 Guest users’ lifecycle managment with Okta Workflows

One of the many automation use cases that Okta brings to the Microsoft ecosystem is its capability to manage the lifecycle of identities. In this Article I will guide you how to provision and deprovision Office 365 Guest accounts automatically when a user gets onboarded until their offboarding as an exemple, leveraging Okta Workflows and … Continue reading Microsoft Office 365 Guest users’ lifecycle managment with Okta Workflows →

Okta Custom Domain Configuration with Let’s Encrypt Certificates

UPDATE 11/09/2023: Okta has now the let's encrypt option built in. You can register your customer domain as per below. If you had a let's encrypt domain certificate simply delete the domain and register it again following the steps below: This guide will walk through the process of changing your Okta URL to a custom … Continue reading Okta Custom Domain Configuration with Let’s Encrypt Certificates →

Okta Sign On Error Message Customizations

With the increase of Adaptive MFA use case and all the different combination of posture presented to evaluate the sign in into a resource, organisations require to customize their messaging to their end users to provide context and reduce the login experience friction. Keep in mind that for security reason we may not want to … Continue reading Okta Sign On Error Message Customizations →

Office 365 / Azure AD seemless Users and Password’s Migration to Okta

In today's world, more and more organizations are looking at simplifying their Identity and access management solution in order to better secure their identity but also to reduce cost while improving the user experience. One of the use case we see more and more is organizations using Okta to centralise their users coming from mutliple … Continue reading Office 365 / Azure AD seemless Users and Password’s Migration to Okta →

Okta End-to-End Passwordless and true SSO Experience into Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktops (AVD)

As we evolve through the new "normal", most organizations are looking to extend their digital user experience to frictionless in order to increase workforce productivity while working from anywhere. This is where Identity and Access Management plays a fundamental part to it and one of the key capability to enhance user experience is "PasswordLess". At … Continue reading Okta End-to-End Passwordless and true SSO Experience into Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktops (AVD) →