Author: Mark Smith

Over 25 years of experience in IT including over 10 years specialising in Identity and Access Management.

Pagination with Okta Workflows

Okta Workflows makes it easy to automate identity processes at scale – without writing code. Using the if-this-then-that logic, Okta’s pre-built connector library and the ability to connect to any publicly available API, anyone can innovate with Okta. When working with large result sets, its impractical to try and process them in one single block. Pagination … Continue reading Pagination with Okta Workflows →

Auth0 Integration with Okta Workflows – Part One

The Customer Identity Cloud (aka Auth0 Identity Platform), a product unit within Okta, takes a modern approach to identity and enables organizations to provide secure access to any application, for any user. Auth0 is a highly customizable platform that is as simple as development teams want, and as flexible as they need. In todays product … Continue reading Auth0 Integration with Okta Workflows – Part One →

Event Hook Filtering and Okta Workflows

Event Hooks are outbound calls from Okta, sent when specified events occur in your tenant. They take the form of HTTPS REST calls to a URL you specify, encapsulating information about the events in JSON objects in the request body. These calls from Okta are meant to be used as triggers for process flows within … Continue reading Event Hook Filtering and Okta Workflows →

Manage Short Term Users with Okta Workflows

Okta Workflows makes it easy to automate identity processes at scale – without writing code. Use if-this-then-that logic, Okta's pre-built connector library, and the ability to connect to any publicly available API to enable anyone to innovate with Okta. Workflows templates provide flow builders with pre-built, configurable flows for common identity automation use cases. Flogrammers can … Continue reading Manage Short Term Users with Okta Workflows →

Password Import Hook with Java Endpoint

This blog post is an additional add-on to Dany’s post on Office 365 / Azure AD seemless Users and Password’s Migration to Okta In this post, we will replace the Okta Workflows implementation of the hook endpoint with a Java service. Webhooks are user-defined HTTP callbacks and are usually triggered by some event. Okta’s implementation … Continue reading Password Import Hook with Java Endpoint →

Okta Workflows Connector Builder

Sample Use CaseHigh Level StepsStep 1 - Create Connector ProjectStep 2 - Set Up AuthenticationStep 3 - Create Connector FlowsStep 4 - Test Your FlowsStep 5 - Deploy Your ConnectorUsing Your Connector Okta Workflows makes it easy to automate identity processes at scale – without writing code. Using the if-this-then-that logic, Okta's pre-built connector library and … Continue reading Okta Workflows Connector Builder →