Imagine effortlessly syncing your Okta configuration across multiple tenants, or between preview and production, with just a few clicks.

Imagine making changes in your policies and groups with confidence, knowing you have a safety net to catch errors before they impact user access.

Imagine reverting a bad change in minutes and having your configuration backed up at all times.

Now, what if I tell you that all of these things are actually possible?

We’re thrilled to announce that Salto now supports Okta, the fastest-growing identity and access management platform.

Just as Salto has streamlined configuration management for Salesforce, NetSuite, Jira, Zendesk, and other business apps, we're now bringing that same operational agility to Okta admins.

Streamline your Okta configuration management

To explain our platform in one sentence: Salto empowers your team to manage Okta configuration with tools and practices used in software development. That means more agile processes, fewer mistakes, and faster release times.

Here’s how it works:

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Salto fetches your Okta configuration data, so you can see everything in one place and understand how your groups, policies, and other elements relate to each other.

Want to know what group rules are using that group? Easy:

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With the new level of visibility, you can compare two Okta tenants, see the differences between them, and push a desired change across in a few clicks:

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By applying DevOps practices to configuration management, Salto can help organizations cut out hours of manual work and significantly reduce human errors, downtime, and compliance risks in Okta.

And if you want to implement version control or a proper CI/CD pipeline for your Okta changes, Salto can support that too.

The biggest advantage of Salto: you don’t need to be a highly skilled DevOps engineer to use it. Salto is a no-code platform with relatively quick onboarding that doesn’t require any previous DevOps experience.

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Make changes in Okta with confidence (and configuration backup!)

Okta admins say that one of their most pervasive fears is making a change that will lock people out of their work systems and interrupt the business. And because there’s no “undo” button, you have to spend hours investigating and reconfiguring—with everyone breathing down your neck.

This is true even if you use a preview sandbox to test changes. Your preview is rarely a mirror of production: no matter what you do to keep them in line, they just tend to drift apart. Even a small difference in a global policy or another element is enough for the change to behave differently.

With Okta, you need to be able to recover very quickly. Salto’s ability to revert any configuration change in a matter of a few clicks is what admins particularly love about our platform.

Because your Okta configuration is now fully documented and versioned in Salto and Git, if an update goes poorly, you can roll back to the previous state.

It’s also possible to add approval gates for all changes and enable email alerts just for the critical ones (e.g., your rules and policies), adding an extra layer of protection to Okta.

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Automate and secure your Okta changes

In addition to stress-free configuration backup, there are many other benefits of using Salto:

• Save time and automate manual work

Salto streamlines manual processes such as deploying changes cross-tenants, documenting configurations, clearing technical debt, making bulk changes, and more.

• Don’t break anything while testing policies, groups, and apps

With the ability to promote changes from preview to production in a few clicks, you can test your Okta policies, groups, and apps safely—and never have to rebuild configurations from scratch again.

• Get full visibility into Okta

With Salto, it’s easy to avoid mistakes and understand the implications of every change—because you can view all configuration elements and dependencies between them in one place.

• Ensure secure change management practices

It’s difficult to control changes in Okta when so many hands touch it. But with Salto’s monitoring and approval features, you can enforce policies and keep things secure.

• Automate your deployments with CI/CD

Salto integrates with Git and CI providers of your choice, so you can collaborate on and automate your deployments.

• Enable a “hybrid” approach to making changes

Salto continuously updates its view of your Okta configuration, including the changes made natively or via other tools by everyone on your team—so you don’t have to limit yourself to a single way of managing your tenant and you can onboard your team gradually.

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Salto makes your org more effective

Salto enables IAM teams to work faster, which also translates into cutting costs and reducing certain risks.

For your IT organization, having Salto means:

• Reducing the risk of Okta downtime disrupting the business
• Reducing security and compliance risks for Okta
• Reducing the overall cost of your identity and access management: with automated change management, your team can successfully handle the full workload and will have less tech debt to pay down—and you won’t have to hire as many new people.

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To see our platform in action and for more information about Salto for Okta, talk to us.