Earlier this year, Nudge Security released security posture management capabilities for Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, helping you harden your identity infrastructure by addressing app misconfigurations as well as risks related to identities and third-party integrations. Today, we’re extending these capabilities to Okta with our new Okta connected app. With this new, deeper integration, Nudge Security customers can further harden and protect their critical identity stack.

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SaaS identities and infrastructure have become a focal point for bad actors. Earlier this year, Okta reported an “unprecedented” spike in identity-based attacks against their customers, echoing Microsoft’s warning that sophisticated threat actors are increasingly targeting identity infrastructure, including their own.

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To contend with the pace and scale of modern identity attacks, security teams need to maintain essential security controls for critical apps like Okta. Like most SaaS providers, Okta offers its own native security and access settings as well as recommended security best practices to help safeguard against attacks—but configuring, monitoring, and maintaining these controls requires constant vigilance. SaaS security posture management (SSPM) capabilities, like those built into Nudge Security, continuously monitor Okta environments for issues and configuration "drift" that could introduce risk.

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Nudge Security already connects with Okta to provide visibility of Okta identities and to automate employee offboarding. Now, with the Okta connected app, you can also shore up Okta security posture risks proactively, including identity risks, app-to-app integration issues, risky security policies, and app misconfigurations, taking advantage of Nudge Security's robust set of custom Okta rules.

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With the new app integration, you can:

• Resolve Okta identity risks such as inactive privileged accounts, admin accounts with weak or missing MFA, and suspended admin accounts.
• Safeguard your Okta infrastructure against misconfigurations and risky policies such as excessive session lifetimes, disabled threat detection functionality, and missing behavior detection settings.
• Monitor Okta integrations and automatically revoke risky app-to-app connections.
• Prioritize findings with severity ratings and address configuration drift swiftly by kicking off automated remediation workflows.

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Let’s take a closer look.

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1. Configure the Okta connected app.

You can enable the Okta connected app quickly and easily to start seeing Okta security posture findings within Nudge Security.

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First, you’ll need to create a read-only token in your Okta tenant using an Okta read-only administrator account or a custom administrator account.

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Next, go to Apps > Connected Apps within Nudge Security and enter your Okta token to connect the app.

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2. Surface Okta misconfigurations, risky security policies, and identity risks.

Nudge Security generates security posture findings for Okta risks and misconfigurations that can expose SaaS data or allow unauthorized access to your critical resources.

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Detect Okta configuration drift.

Nudge Security helps you harden your Okta infrastructure by detecting configurations that fall out of alignment with Okta security best practices. For example, Nudge Security will check to make sure your Okta deployment is configured to require MFA for enrollment, limit maximum session lifetimes, enforce strong passwords, and require biometric user verification. You can tune these checks by muting and unmuting specific rules and findings.

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Take advantage of built-in Okta security controls.

Okta provides security policies and settings that can help mitigate attacks against your identity infrastructure, such as behavior detections, suspicious activity reporting, and threat insights. Nudge Security helps you make sure you’re taking advantage of these critical capabilities by generating security posture findings when they’re disabled. We also help you make sure you’re taking advantage of security policies offered through Okta, such as blocking certain types of suspicious activity and evaluating Okta risk scores for each request.

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Detect Okta identity risks.

Nudge Security helps you detect risks to your Okta user and group identities such as inactive privileged accounts, suspended admin accounts, accounts with weak MFA, accounts that have never logged in, and accounts with no roles.

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You’ll see these findings in a posture dashboard, summarized alongside risks and misconfigurations from your Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 environment, as well as upcoming connected apps as they become available.

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3. Evaluate and prioritize Okta security posture risks.

Nudge Security categorizes findings by risk level and displays top issues to help you prioritize. Click on any finding to review context, including risk severity and recommended actions, helping you make informed remediation decisions.

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4. Resolve Okta risks with nudge workflows.

Okta administrators and security teams can’t always resolve every finding directly, which is why our approach centers on engaging the right SaaS stakeholders to complete simple yet effective tasks. Nudge Security automatically determines which user is best suited to resolve a finding and enables you to “nudge” resolution owners with guidance tailored to each finding, streamlining the remediation process.

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For example, a misconfiguration in an Okta group’s permissions would be assigned to the group owner, while a user account with MFA disabled would be assigned to the individual user. The activity feed within the posture dashboard logs updates, showing you when issues are resolved, in progress, or require re-evaluation.

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5. Track your Okta security posture improvement over time.

As your team takes action to resolve findings, you'll see updates in a feed of recent activity. within Nudge Security’s posture dashboard. You can monitor and report on your security posture improvements by visualizing progress over time as you detect and resolve findings.

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Ready to learn more?

• Start your free 14-day trial of Nudge Security to get started.
• Join us on November 21 for a product demo to dig into how it works.