Okta, Inc., today at Oktane20 Live announced
new strategic partnerships with leading endpoint protection and
management providers VMware Carbon Black, CrowdStrike, and Tanium. The
new integration partnerships provide a broad set of device risk signals
to the Okta Identity Cloud, enabling enterprises to combine endpoint
risk detection with user identity to deliver unparalleled access
security. Made possible through the new Okta Verify application and the
Okta Devices Platform Service, these integrations pave the way to
enhanced risk analysis and access decisions in a Zero Trust environment.
"It's
clear that securing the modern enterprise involves thinking beyond the
perimeter and recognizing the ways people work today," said Todd
McKinnon, Chief Executive Officer, Okta. "Okta wants to enable anyone to
use any technology, and to do so securely. Our new partnerships with
endpoint security leaders like VMware Carbon Black, CrowdStrike, and
Tanium open the door to really innovative ways to deliver on the promise
of Zero Trust security. By feeding device risk signals into the Okta
Identity Cloud, we're able to drive truly comprehensive risk analysis
that combines deep device insights with Okta's user-centric insights,
ultimately delivering more secure outcomes for our customers."
New
partnerships with VMware Carbon Black, CrowdStrike, and Tanium augment
Okta's existing endpoint management integrations to provide enterprise
security teams more device context than ever before when creating access
and authentication policies. The new Okta Verify application is built
for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, Android, and Windows to embed Okta on every
device. This enables Okta to collect risk signals from devices
themselves as well as endpoint protection and management partners. This
is made possible through the recently introduced Okta Devices Platform
Service, which enables standardized integration capabilities. Okta's
agnostic approach to endpoint protection and management integration will
be used to expand the roster of supported endpoint protection and
management vendors.
Relying
on the Okta Devices Platform Service, the Okta Identity Cloud is able
to ingest those device risk signals to create a comprehensive risk
profile of an individual login attempt. Okta can now make access
decisions based on security posture signals from an individual's device,
using data delivered by both Okta Verify and leading endpoint
management and endpoint detection and response partners. Together with
partners, Okta can determine if the operating system is up-to-date,
whether or not the device is jailbroken, if the device contains any
malware, if the device is managed by IT, and whether or not a firewall
is disabled. Okta can then leverage these signals to make the
appropriate contextual response to an access request, such as denying
access or prompting for an additional factor.
"Mobile
and cloud technologies have driven new workforce behaviors that have
eliminated the traditional perimeter and require a new approach to
security," said Sanjay Poonen, Chief Operating Officer, VMware. "To that
end, we believe it's critical to secure endpoints, workloads, clouds,
and user identities. This partnership enhancement with Okta builds on
the already strong integration with VMware Workspace ONE for endpoint
management. By adding VMware Carbon Black for endpoint security to the
partnership, we're in a position to not only help protect and manage
devices, but understand and better secure user identities behind today's
diverse endpoint ecosystem. VMware and Okta are further working to
empower security and IT teams in a rapidly-changing attack landscape."
"The
paradigm shift to cloud services combined with an increasingly remote
workforce means the IT network, as we once knew it, no longer exists,"
said Peter Constantine, Chief Product Officer, Tanium. "To truly remain
secure, organizations not only need to verify a user's identity but also
ensure the health and security of the connecting device before granting
access to sensitive information. Tanium and Okta are combining
industry-leading identity and access management with unified endpoint
management and security to give enterprises the ability to define which
devices can access critical data, services, and applications, with
instant endpoint visibility."
To learn more about Okta's endpoint integrations, visit: https://www.okta.com/endpoint-security-and-management/