Okta Workflow Office Hours

For those Okta customers that are using Okta Workflows, this might be of interest to you. What is Workflow Office Hours? Workflow Office Hours is a one hour virtual session for Okta customers that are interested in: Talking to the Workflows specialist team about potential use cases for Okta Workflows Share what they are working … Continue reading Okta Workflow Office Hours →

Okta Workflows How-To: Anything as a Source with Pagination

OverviewAnything-as-a-Source ConstraintsPagination OptionsPagination LogicManaging Page SizeManaging Bulk-Load RequestsPre-RequirementsStep 1 – Configure Custom Identity Source AppAdd ApplicationConfigure ApplicationUpdate Identity Source ProfileStep 2 - Add Required Scopes to AppStep 3 - Configure Azure ADStep 4 - Configure the Sample WorkflowDownload Sample FlowsImport Flows and Table DataUpdate and Active FlowsLoad Sample UsersStep 5 - Run the Sample WorkflowImport … Continue reading Okta Workflows How-To: Anything as a Source with Pagination →

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 →

Creating a Twilio Messaging Connector with Workflows Connector Builder

Okta has just made generally available its Workflows Connector Builder and I am writing this post to celebrate. Okta's Workflow Connector Builder delivers the powerful concept of reuse to your Workflows. It allows you build connections and actions once for re-use throughout all of your Workflows. Additionally, it gives vendors the opportunity to build and … Continue reading Creating a Twilio Messaging Connector with Workflows Connector Builder →

Okta Workflows How-To: Anything as a Source

See my latest Anything as a Source blog here: https://iamse.blog/2023/06/01/okta-workflows-how-to-anything-as-a-source-with-pagination/ Workflow ArchitectureOkta Workflow Controls the SynchronizationCustom Identity Source Controls the SynchronizationEnd to End EnablementPre-RequirementsStep 1 - Configure Custom Identity Source AppAdd ApplicationConfigure ApplicationUpdate Identity Source ProfileStep 2 - Integrate your Custom Identity SourceStep 3 - Configure the Sample WorkflowAdd Required ScopesImport Sample FlowsImport Sample DataUpdate … Continue reading Okta Workflows How-To: Anything as a Source →

Bring Your Own Messaging Provider: WhatsApp OTP with Inline Hooks & Workflows

Okta's Identity Engine introduced an Inline Hook for Telephony effectively allow you to replace Okta's inbuilt SMS solution with your own provider. This empowers customers to manage their own numbers and providers around the world allowing for cost and delivery optimisation. It also paves the way for adding additional channel options for OTP messages. Messaging … Continue reading Bring Your Own Messaging Provider: WhatsApp OTP with Inline Hooks & Workflows →

Understanding AWS IAM and Integrating with Okta and Workflows

I've been looking into application entitlements and the Amazon Web Services (AWS) users, groups and entitlements has perplexed me for some time. I've had the opportunity to explore it, try to understand it and build some integration between Okta Workforce Identity Cloud (via Okta Workflows). This post is a summary of my findings. AWS and … Continue reading Understanding AWS IAM and Integrating with Okta and Workflows →

New in Workflows: Security Operations Solution Packs

Okta Workflows has just released a number of templates focused on Security Operations Centre (SOC) processes. These Workflow templates are designed to help solve specific identity-based automation challenges for the Security Operations team using a bundled collection of pre-built and fully customizable flows. The categories include: Security Awareness Identity Automation + Response Incident Investigation + … Continue reading New in Workflows: Security Operations Solution Packs →

Learn How to use Workflows for Inline Hooks

ImportantCreate Inline Hook With this release of low-latency flows, Okta has laid the groundwork for supporting any web hook that is time sensitive. Traditionally, organizations have to spend engineering effort to build, deploy, host, and manage their own system in order to enrich a user's profile (token or session), or notify/remediate a security threat. Those … Continue reading Learn How to use Workflows for Inline Hooks →

Low Latency Flows

Okta Workflows doesn't guarantee execution latency. Usually flows run very fast. However, Workflows is a multi-tenant system and doesn't have a latency SLA. Flows execution times depend on: Complexity of the flow (including built-in waits) Lag between increased demand for system resources and Okta adding extra capacity Latency or rate limiting by third-party APIs Because … Continue reading Low Latency Flows →