How Okta RUINED My Life For 2 Years...

Don't use Okta. Wait, you want to know more? How about the utter mishandling of user information and complete disregard for transparency?

Even funnier, it was revealed that the September/October breach was actually much more serious than was originally believed and leaked everyone's information. All while I was editing this video.

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👋 Outro: Khaim - Neon Lamp

🛡️ Learn more about protecting yourself from Okta:

Chapters:
0:00 Hey, how's your work life?
2:11 Story Time
5:34 Phone (Number) Requirement
7:54 Okta & the Lapsus$ Hackers
9:04 Pulling the Plug & Pricing
11:20 Don't wait for the next Okta failure.
14:35 Outro

[JonathanRose]

Honestly, it sounds a lot like your IT team just royally messed up the implementation. I’ve used Okta before and it was fine, just like any other SSO. Obviously the hack is a problem and worth keeping in mind when making a choice, but the bulk of the other issues sound like it’s your IT teams fault

[JessicaFEREM]

imagine paying $6k for something that could've been free *and better*

[dczoekj]

No amount of money/services would help those people that are tech illiterate. I am a bit annoyed that because 1 person does not know how to use the web, 99 people must change their way of work.

[Tweekism]

Its $5 per user per month, so it's $5 x 100 users x 12 months. So it's $6000 BEFORE they start adding on any extra services they need, meaning that's probably a low estimate.

[langnostic]

We're using Okta products all over the place, not gonna say where. I have to login in 3 TIMES, my laptop login, immediately to okta login in macos, then login to okta AGAIN, IN THE BROWSER for VPN access, cuz everything is tied to okta ...
Logging into my work machine is so slow 🐌

[JCO]

Log into my Microsoft account? Don't have that, so will have to log into my Linux account. Except - you don't need an account with Linux - you just use it (and own your computer rather than renting it).

[mx]

Microsoft Auth with extensive authentication policies costs money too but it's included in the better license packages.
It does offer a ton of controls, I am very with it as a sysadmin.

[chillySwt]

As someone who's working in this field, man, your IT department was very incompetent 😅 everything was configured in a way that made the IT team's life easier but the end users' very hard. Okta can be configured so seamlessly than users don't even think too much about what programs they're using. Okta is ranked #2 in IAM, this is not an unknown company. The issue is that it's pretty complex and the IT team needs to actually put some effort in learning the system and it looks like they're very lazy in your company 😅

[Akab]

7:50 okay that one made me laugh 😂 but it's actual good advice for once

[mohamadzx]

OK why don't you hope that simple logins implement their own sso

[musicalneptunian]

What? I will always be your friend. I am your friend till the end.
Yours
Chucky

[frustratedalien]

I have to install its stupid SSO app because of my company. I lol'd when I joined this company

[leej]

If you joined DistroHacking more often we could be friends.