Okta Privileged Access: Hashicorp Vault Secrets Migration

This article is to help to migrate Hashicorp vaults' secret into the Okta Privileged Access vault. This solution is provided as a guide and it can be further enhanced or extended to use for any other third party vault. The given tool is developed in java using Spring Boot framework. This tool has a property … Continue reading Okta Privileged Access: Hashicorp Vault Secrets Migration →

Advanced Server Access PLUS step-up MFA for sudo with RADIUS

Okta’s Advanced Server Access (ASA) eliminates password and SSH-key challenges with just-in-time, ephemeral certificates, improving security and user experience. While ASA doesn’t support transactional MFA, Okta’s RADIUS agent with the libpam_radius module enables sudo step-up MFA. The guide details RADIUS agent setup, server configuration, and sudo entitlement adjustments for enhanced security.

Okta Privileged Access: How to Backup and Restore

This article is to help with Backup and Restore process for Okta Privileged Access (OPA) components managed and maintained outside of the Okta infrastructure. Backing up your Okta PA server agent and Gateway configurations is a proactive safeguard against downtime, and other unwanted negative impacts to your business. OPA does not have capabilities to back … Continue reading Okta Privileged Access: How to Backup and Restore →

Okta Privileged Access : User Identity Creation alert

This article is to send a notification to the security team if a new user id is being created on any Okta PA protected resources. This will help the security team to identify new identities directly created on protected servers which are not discovered and being managed by the vault in Okta Privileged Access - … Continue reading Okta Privileged Access : User Identity Creation alert →

Okta Privileged Access – Determining and Highlighting Risk in Roles and Policies

Okta Privileged Access provides a flexible framework for controlling who can access what privileged resources and how. This includes resource groups for managing resources, security policies for controlling access, administrative roles to manage them, and principals to use them. Invariably configuring the PAM solution will introduce risk. But how to monitor and manage the risk … Continue reading Okta Privileged Access – Determining and Highlighting Risk in Roles and Policies →

Okta Privileged Access and Access Certification – Getting Roles into the Group Description

As with many SaaS applications in Okta, application entitlement can be managed via Okta Groups pushed to Okta Privileged Access (OPA). This means membership in OPA policies and roles is based on Okta Group membership and thus can be governed by access requests and access certification for those groups. In this article we look at … Continue reading Okta Privileged Access and Access Certification – Getting Roles into the Group Description →

Okta Privileged Access and the Reports API – Who has Access to What and How?

With the release of Okta Privileged Access, an API has also been released to provide programmatic access into objects managed by it, such as servers, secrets and gateways. There is a set of Access Reports APIs to allow for external reporting on who has access to what and how. This article explores the APIs, the … Continue reading Okta Privileged Access and the Reports API – Who has Access to What and How? →

Leveraging Zero Standing Privileges and Shared Account Access with Okta Privileged Access

We all appreciate that a Zero Standing Privileges model is the best approach when it comes to privileged access - if a compromised account doesn't have standing privileges, then the attacker is limited in what they can do. But the reality for many organisations is that there are still shared accounts with elevated privileges that … Continue reading Leveraging Zero Standing Privileges and Shared Account Access with Okta Privileged Access →

Introducing Secrets Management in Okta Privileged Access

This article explores the new secrets management capability within Okta Privileged Access. Introduction to Secrets ManagementThe Vault, Secrets and FoldersResource Administration and Security PolicyAn Example of Generic Secrets ManagementThe configuration in Okta and Okta Privileged AccessOkta Users and GroupsResource Groups and ProjectsDefining Top-Level Folders as the SecretAdminDefine Secrets PoliciesManaging Folders and SecretsUser (Linux Sysadmin) ViewConclusion … Continue reading Introducing Secrets Management in Okta Privileged Access →

Okta Privileged Access and Okta Access Requests

Okta Privileged Access (OPA) leverages with wider Okta Workforce Identity Cloud capabilities for many use cases. One of these integrations is with the Okta Access Requests components, that comes as part of the Okta Identity Governance (OIG) product, but also ships in a limited form with OPA. This article explores the two common use cases: … Continue reading Okta Privileged Access and Okta Access Requests →