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Authentication Options (4)

Authentication User experience: Process of providing credentials and logging into multiple systems is easy and intuitive for users 415 reviewers of Okta have provided feedback on this feature.
Multi-Factor Authentication: Provides support for Multi-Factor authentication, so users are required to provide multiple factors to authenticate. For example, something they know, Something they have or something they are. 401 reviewers of Okta have provided feedback on this feature.
Federation/SAML support (idp): Based on 286 Okta reviews. Can serve as the identity provider to external service providers so that when the user logs into a service, instead of providing credentials to the service provider, the service provider trusts the identity provider to validate the credentials.
Federation/SAML support (sp): As reported in 276 Okta reviews. Can serve as the Service provider from an external service so that when the user logs in externally they have seamless SSO to internal applications from a service provider.

Access Control Types (5)

Endpoint access: Based on 309 Okta reviews. Provides ability to control access to PC's, Mobile devices, and other endpoint devices.
Local Access: Based on 337 Okta reviews. Controls access to legacy applications, web based applications, network resources and servers while employees are on the companies local area network.
Remote Access: Controls access to legacy applications, web based applications, networks resources while employees are outside the local area network. 344 reviewers of Okta have provided feedback on this feature.
Partner Access: Controls access to users that are not company employees that are either within the companies local area network or outside the network 249 reviewers of Okta have provided feedback on this feature.
Supports BYOD users: As reported in 262 Okta reviews. Enables users to use their own device to access company applications.

Administration (13)

Ease of installation on server: As reported in 271 Okta reviews. Installation process is easy and flexible.
Password Policy Enforcement: Options for resetting and enforcing password policies This feature was mentioned in 313 Okta reviews.
Administration Console: As reported in 264 Okta reviews. Provides Administration tools/console that are easy to use and learn for routine maintenance tasks
Ease of connecting applications: Easily provisions new systems, platforms or applications using configuration and not customization. This feature was mentioned in 324 Okta reviews.
Self Service Password Administration: As reported in 312 Okta reviews. Users can set, change passwords without interaction from IT staff
Reporting: Based on 83 Okta reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Standard and customized report creation to ensure appropriate access rights have been assigned
Mobile App: Based on 96 Okta reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Provides mobile application that alerts administrators of potential issues and allows administrators manage access rights
Ease of set up for target systems: Based on 87 Okta reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Support for wide variety of cloud and on premise apps to automate provisioning for existing and new applications procured
APIs: Based on 81 Okta reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Provides appropriate application interfaces to enable custom integrations for unique business requirements
Smart/Automated Provisioning: As reported in 58 Okta reviews. Automates account/access rights creation, changes and removals for on-premise and cloud apps
Policy Management: Enables administrators to create access policies and applies policy controls throughout request and provisioning processes This feature was mentioned in 57 Okta reviews.
On-premise identity repositories supported: Based on 52 Okta reviews. Variety and Quality of integrations (ie Active Directory, LDAP)
Ease of Connecting Applications: Based on 65 Okta reviews. Easily provisions new systems, platforms or applications using configuration and not customization.

Platform (7)

Multiple Operating system support: Supports Endpoint access control to multiple operating systems This feature was mentioned in 316 Okta reviews.
Multi-Domain Support: As reported in 280 Okta reviews. Allows user authentication to be honored by all the hosts in two or more domains
Cross Browser support: Support access to browser based applications across required browser types 313 reviewers of Okta have provided feedback on this feature.
Fail over protection: Provides required failover mechanisms to ensure if one server, network, etc fails users are still able able to authenticate 254 reviewers of Okta have provided feedback on this feature.
Reporting: Based on 247 Okta reviews. Contains pre-built and custom reporting tools to required to manage business
Auditing: Based on 243 Okta reviews. Provides mechanism for auditing authentication for trouble shooting purposes.
Third Party Web Services support: Can call and pass credentials to third party web services. 261 reviewers of Okta have provided feedback on this feature.

User on/off Boarding (6)

Self Service Access requests: Based on 92 Okta reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Users can request access to an application and be automatically provisioned if they meet policy requirements
Smart/Automated Provisioning: Based on 88 Okta reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Automates account/access rights creation, changes and removals for on-premise and cloud apps
Role Management: Based on 92 Okta reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Establish roles that create a set of authentication rights for each user in the role
Policy Management: Based on 90 Okta reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Enables administrators to create access policies and applies policy controls throughout request and provisioning processes
Access Termination: Based on 88 Okta reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Terminate access to multiple applications based on dates
Approval Workflows: Based on 82 Okta reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Allow business stake-holders/managers to approve or reject requested changes to access via a defined workflow

User Maintenance (3)

Self Service Password Reset: Based on 103 Okta reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Enables users to reset passwords without administrator interaction. Enforces password policies when resetting.
Bulk Changes: Based on 84 Okta reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Change users and permissions in bulk
Bi-directional Identity Synchronization: Based on 76 Okta reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Keep identity attributes consistent across applications whether the change is made in the provisioning system or the application

Governance (2)

Network Management (4)

Network Segmentation: Allows administrative control over network components, mapping, and segmentation. 32 reviewers of Okta have provided feedback on this feature.
Network Mapping: Based on 32 Okta reviews. Allows visual display of networks segmented components and their connected resources.
Security Analytics: As reported in 34 Okta reviews. Utilizes behavioral analysis to improve security procedures and documentation.
API/Integrations: As reported in 33 Okta reviews. Application Programming Interface - Specification for how the application communicates with other software. API's typically enable integration of data, logic, objects, etc. with other software applications.

Security (4)

Security Automation: Allows administrative control over automated security tasks. 35 reviewers of Okta have provided feedback on this feature.
Application Security: As reported in 37 Okta reviews. Protects application access and data. Prompts additional authentication for suspicious users.
Workload Protection: Based on 32 Okta reviews. Protects computing resources across a network. Prompts additional authentication for suspicious users.
Data Protection: Protects informatin stored on premises and in the cloud. Prompts additional authentication for suspicious users. This feature was mentioned in 36 Okta reviews.

Identity Management (3)

Adaptive Access Control: Provides a risk-based approcach to determining trust within the network. 32 reviewers of Okta have provided feedback on this feature.
Identity Scoring: Calculates risk based on user behavior, permissions, and requests. This feature was mentioned in 31 Okta reviews.
User Monitoring: Based on 36 Okta reviews. Monitors users attempting unauthorized access to databases, applicaitons, and othe network components.

Access Control (4)

Role Management: As reported in 58 Okta reviews. Establish roles that create a set of authentication rights for each user in the role
Access Termination: Based on 61 Okta reviews. Terminate access to multiple applications based on dates
Remote Access: As reported in 60 Okta reviews. Controls access to legacy applications, web based applications, networks resources while employees are outside the local area network.
Partner Access: Based on 53 Okta reviews. Controls access to users that are not company employees that are either within the companies local area network or outside the network

Functionality (13)

SSO: Provides a single access point for users to access multiple cloud products without multiple logins. This feature was mentioned in 71 Okta reviews.
Multi-Factor Authentication: Provides support for Multi-Factor authentication, so users are required to provide multiple factors to authenticate. For example, something they know, Something they have or something they are. This feature was mentioned in 72 Okta reviews.
Supports Required Authentication systems: Supports required 3rd party Authentication Technologies. Example systems: bioMetric, passwords, key cards, token based systems, etc. 64 reviewers of Okta have provided feedback on this feature.
Self-registration and self-service: Based on 97 Okta reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Enables a seamless customer experience with self-registration and self-service functions, including account creation and preference management.
Authentication: Based on 104 Okta reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Verifies user identity with authentication, which may include multiple multi-factor authentication methods.
Scalability: Based on 100 Okta reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Scales to support growing a customer base.
Customer data linking: Based on 96 Okta reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Integrates with directories or other data stores that house customer data to create a complete view of a customer.
User provisioning: Simplifies or automates user provisioning, deprovisioning, and other user role changes. This feature was mentioned in 159 Okta reviews.
Password manager: As reported in 161 Okta reviews. Offers password management tools to end users.
Single Sign-on: As reported in 171 Okta reviews. Offers single sign-on functionalities to end users, allowing them to authenticate once and be given access to all of their company accounts.
Enforces policies: Enforces user-access policies based on individual, role type, group membership or other factors to prevent unauthorized access to company systems and data. 158 reviewers of Okta have provided feedback on this feature.
Authentication: Authenticates users prior to granting access to company systems. 172 reviewers of Okta have provided feedback on this feature.
Multi-factor authentication: Based on 165 Okta reviews. Offers multi-factor authentication methods to verify a user's identity.

Type (2)

Reporting (4)

Tracking: Based on 144 Okta reviews. Tracks user activities across protected systems.
Reporting: Provides reporting functionality. This feature was mentioned in 143 Okta reviews.
Access & Permission Change Reporting: Log and report all modifications to user roles and access rights. This feature was mentioned in 31 Okta reviews.
Compliance & Audit Trail Export: As reported in 31 Okta reviews. Provide standardized reports for regulatory compliance and audits.

Monitoring (5)

Remediation (2)

Generative AI (2)

Agentic AI - AWS Marketplace (3)

Authentication & Authorization - Identity and Access Management (IAM) (1)

Administration & Governance - Identity and Access Management (IAM) (2)

Generative AI - Identity and Access Management (IAM) (3)

AI‑Driven Access Anomaly Detection: As reported in 31 Okta reviews. Identify unusual access patterns using machine learning models.
Automated Policy Tuning: Based on 31 Okta reviews. Dynamically adjust access policies based on risk and AI-generated insights.
Predictive Role Recommendations: Suggest appropriate user roles based on usage patterns and peer behavior. 31 reviewers of Okta have provided feedback on this feature.

AI Authentication Risk Management - Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) (5)

Adaptive MFA: Possesses AI-driven triggers to determine when to require MFA or stronger authentication rather than always requiring it.
Anomaly Detection: Builds profiles of known devices/environments per user and flags deviations such as new devices, new networks, and/or suspicious locations as higher risk.
Fraudulent Login Detection: Spot fraudulent behavior, such as account takeover attempts, credential stuffing, bots, and brute force attacks through the use of AI.
Adaptive Authentication Policies: Uses machine learning to analyze past authentication events and suggest optimizations to security policies (e.g. thresholds, triggers) or to adjust rules over time.
Risk-Based Authentication: Leverages AI to assign a risk score to a login attempt based on context, device, IP, historical patterns to dynamically decide whether to prompt for MFA, additional challenges, or allow seamless login.