Okta eats own dog food on WFH, tightens supplier access after Lapsus$ breach

John Leonard
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Okta eats own dog food on WFH, tightens supplier access after Lapsus$ incident
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Okta eats own dog food on WFH, tightens supplier access after Lapsus$ incident

Okta contracts are 100% work from home, says senior solutions engineer Craig Hinchliffe

Okta could be said to have had a 'good pandemic', demand for its SaaS identity and access management (IAM) services soaring with the need to secure WFH. The company itself has fully bought into ...

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