Okta

Okta gives us a peace of mind when it comes to our data safety by helping avoid any kind of unauthorized access to our systems and devices. It has been a simple and very effective experience setting up access authentications that allows us to ensure completely secure access. Okta gives is complete control on access to all our systems and help us understand who is having access to what.

I have build end to end access control solutions in Okta several times. It is best in class today.

We had a terrible experience with Okta. Our sales rep left out very important details that would have dissuaded us signing up. First, the SSO paywall for 3rd parties is so massive and of course they left out that detail. For $12k per year, our costs would exceed $50k in 3rd party charges, just to connect the core apps we use on a daily basis. Second, they said Okta would work seemlessly for our customer service reps, who check in on email accounts and different software services that we use; however, after talking to 3 customer service reps, we found out that we could not achieve this using Okta, making this all-or-nothing deal fall short of our needs. Thirdly, they insisted that we pay them to get support on the product that they sold us on. I would highly recommend first googling "SSO wall of shame" and thinking twice about signing with Okta. They are hounding us to pay for year 2 when we did not even launch it in year 1. Steer clear of these guys, they will bait and switch and they only care about signing new customers.

We really like using Okta and have had great feedback from our clients. The authentication features allow us to protect our network and access to programs. Users have been able to easily adapt to single sign on.

Overall it's a good cloud engine where you can manage all of your devices efficiently and improve productivity.