Articles tagged identity
Winners of the AI and Identity Okta Hackathon 2023
In late September, in partnership with DevPost, we announced the AI and Identity - Okta Hackathon 2023, and invited developers across the globe to “build an app that integrates identity standards with a flair of AI.” We were excited to see how participants would respond to the challenge, and we were not disappointed! Consider these key numbers: Total Hackathon Registrants: 576 Total App Submissions: 22 Total Eligible Submissions: 9 At the close of the competition...
Unlock Identity Expertise with Our New Developer Podcast!
Do you enjoy podcasts? I find that, like audiobooks, podcasts can transform boring tasks into an opportunity for entertainment and education. I’m delighted to announce a new offering from Okta’s Workforce Developer Advocacy Team: our monthly podcast! Listen and learn with the Workforce Identity Developer Podcast The audio version of the Workforce Identity Developer Podcast is available on Casted, where you can also explore Auth0’s ongoing Authorization in software podcast and Identity Unlocked podcast as...
Join Us for Developer Day 2023
We’re thrilled to bring back Developer Day in 2023! Developer Day is an event for developers designed by developers. This year we’re happy to announce this event is a free, two-day virtual event, so you can join us wherever you are! The event focuses on using identity to power secure applications, so join us to create a safer world for your application users. Check out more in this teaser video Developer Day 2023 event Authentication...
Developer Day 2021: Celebrating the Future of Identity
It’s been a big year for Okta and Auth0. Our two companies have officially joined forces over the past few months, and we are excited about the chance to shape the future of identity together. It’s great to celebrate our combined developer communities at the first Developer Day event. I look forward to exploring more ways we can collaborate with our Auth0 counterparts and far-flung global communities through future events and activities. On Tuesday, 8/24,...
Join the Okta Identity Engine Early Access Hackathon 2021 Challenge
Amaze us! Build something unique and wonderful with early access to our new Okta Identity Engine Limited GA release. Here’s how you can get involved. You’re invited to participate in the Okta Identity Early Access Hackathon, which is happening now! Our virtual hackathon began on August 3 and will run till September 14, 2021. You still have more than a month to take the new Okta Identity Engine (OIE) out for a spin and share...
Identity: A First Class Architectural Citizen?
When I decided to transition away from being a Principal Enterprise Architect into a specialized identity engineering role, a number of my colleagues asked me why. My answer has always been this: Because, for the last five or six years, every project I’ve done has been an identity project—we just didn’t know it when we started. That response is usually met with a nodding head and a resigned, weary shrug. Too often, it fails to...
Navigating the ASP.NET Core Identity Landscape
These days, users of web application expect a personalized, secure experience. They want to make sure that they can easily get to their own information, and that no one else can access it. Developers of these web applications want a simple way to manage users and be assured that they have secured their users’ information from prying eyes. For developers of web applications written in ASP.NET Core, there are several choices for managing user identities....
REST Service Authorization with JWTs
Many companies are adopting micro-services based architectures to promote decoupling and separation of concerns in their applications. One inherent challenge with breaking applications up into small services is that now each service needs to deal with authenticating and authorizing requests made to it. Json Web Tokens (JWTs) offer a clean solution to this problem along with TLS client authentication lower down in the stack. Wils Dawson and I presented these topics to the Java User...
Demystifying OAuth
It seems that OAuth 2.0 is everywhere these days. Whether you are building a hot new single page web application (SPA), a native mobile experience, or just trying to integrate with the API economy, you can’t go far without running into the popular authorization framework for REST/APIs and social authentication. During Oktane15, Karl McGuinness, our Senior Director of Identity, demystified the powerful, yet often misunderstood, world of OAuth 2.0 and shared details on Okta’s growing...