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Okta, Inc.

Okta, Inc.

American information technology company

Okta, Inc. (formerly SaaSure Inc.) is an American identity and access management company based in San Francisco.[2] It provides cloud software that helps companies manage and secure user authentication into applications, and for developers to build identity controls into applications, website, web services, and devices.[3] It was founded in 2009 and had its initial public offering in 2017, reaching a valuation of over $6 billion.[4]

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Products and services

Okta sells 10 products,[5] including Single-Sign-On, Universal Directory, Advanced Server Access (formerly ScaleFT[6]), API Access Management, Authentication, User Management, B2B Integration, Multi-factor-Authentication, Lifecycle Management, and Access Gateway.

Okta sells six services, including a single-sign-on service that allows users to log into a variety of systems using a single centralized process. For example, the company claims the ability to log into Gmail, Workday, Salesforce and Slack with one login.[7][8] It also offers API authentication services.[9]

Okta's services are built on top of the Amazon Web Services cloud.[10]

Okta primarily targets enterprise businesses. Claimed customers as of 2020 include Zoominfo, JetBlue, Nordstrom, MGM Resorts International, and the U.S. Department of Justice.[11]

Okta runs an annual “Oktane” user conference, which in 2018 featured former US President Barack Obama as a keynote speaker.[12][13][14]

Operations

Okta is headquartered in San Francisco.[15] It also has offices in San Jose, Bellevue, Toronto, Washington D.C., Chicago, Bengaluru, London, Amsterdam, Sydney, Paris, and Stockholm.[16]

History

Logo until 2022

Okta was co-founded in 2009 by Todd McKinnon and Frederic Kerrest, who previously worked together at Salesforce.[17]

In 2015, the company raised US $75 million in venture capital from Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, and Sequoia Capital, at a total initial valuation of US$1.2 billion.[18]

In 2017, Okta's initial public offering priced at $17.00 per share, trading up on its first day, to raise an additional US$187 million.[19][20] At the time of its IPO, Sequoia Capital was the biggest shareholder, with a 21.2 percent stake.[21]

In January 2019, Okta's CEO announced that the company has over 100 million registered users.[22]

In August 2020, Okta announced that it plans to let most of its employees work remotely on a permanent basis as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.[23]

In March 2021, Okta signed a definitive agreement to acquire Auth0 for $[clarify]6.5 billion.[24] The deal closed in May 2021.[25]

In December 2023, Okta acquired security firm Spera for approximately $100–130 million.[26]

Security incidents

On March 9, 2021, hacking collective "Advanced Persistent Threat 69420" breached an Okta office network through a security failure in the company's Verkada camera setup.[27] They were able to download security footage from the cameras.[28] One member of the group, Maia Arson Crimew, also revealed that the group had gained root shell access to the network.[29] In a blog post the next-day, Okta Chief Security Officer David Bradbury minimized the root shell as an "internal support tool" of the camera manufacturer Verkada.[28] However, the shell would have given the hackers full access to execute any commands on the network, and Cloudflare admitted that a similiar hack by the group on that company's network provided them with the same level of access.[30] Bradbury also said that the threat was contained to an isolated network.

On March 22, 2022, the hacking group LAPSUS$ posted screenshots claiming to be from Okta internal systems.[31] The next day, Okta concluded that a maximum of 366 of their customers data may potentially have been impacted, further stating that the breach originated with a computer used by one of Okta's third-party customer support engineers to which the hackers had access.[32]

In December 2022, Okta's source code was stolen when a hacker gained access to their GitHub repository.[33]

In early October 2023, Okta was notified of a breach resulting in hackers stealing HTTP access tokens from Okta's support platform by BeyondTrust. Okta denied the incident for a number of weeks, but later recognized that a breach had occurred.[34] Customers impacted by the Okta breach included Caesars Entertainment, MGM Resorts International, 1Password and Cloudflare.[35][36][37] On November 29th, 2023, it was known that the security incident affected all Okta customers.[38][39]

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