Okta, Inc. is an identity security company focused on helping organizations manage and secure access across workforce and customer environments. Its platform centers on authentication, authorization, lifecycle automation, governance, and threat response for employees, contractors, partners, customers, and increasingly AI agents and other non-human identities. The company positions identity as a control layer that helps organizations reduce risk while improving access experiences.
Okta, Inc. serves both IT and security teams and application developers through its Okta and Auth0 offerings. Its products are designed to work across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, and hybrid environments, giving organizations a way to centralize identities, apply policy-driven access controls, automate provisioning and deprovisioning, and extend secure login and authorization capabilities into modern applications and digital services.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Okta, Inc. offers identity capabilities for workforce access, customer identity, privileged access, lifecycle administration, governance, and continuous threat detection and response. Its platform is built to secure human and non-human identities, including AI agents, while helping organizations enforce least-privilege access, reduce credential-based risk, and streamline identity operations across distributed environments.
The company emphasizes interoperability. Okta, Inc. supports integration with existing directories, enterprise applications, cloud services, and security tools through the Okta Integration Network, while also providing APIs, SDKs, and developer tooling through Auth0. It extends identity controls into hybrid environments with support for on-premises applications and adds no-code automation for identity-centric processes, allowing customers to connect identity workflows across business and IT systems.
Products and Services
- Okta for AI Agents: Helps organizations discover, onboard, protect, and govern AI agents from a single control plane, including visibility into agent ownership, permissions, and lifecycle controls.
- Single Sign-On: Provides a unified login experience that gives employees, contractors, and business partners secure access to cloud and on-premises applications through one set of credentials.
- Adaptive MFA: Adds contextual, phishing-resistant authentication using policy-based signals such as device posture, location, network, and user behavior.
- Privileged Access: Secures privileged accounts and resources across cloud and on-premises environments with least-privilege controls, approval workflows, credential protection, and session visibility.
- Identity Threat Protection: Continuously evaluates identity risk and automates response actions to help detect and mitigate threats during active user sessions.
- Auth0: Developer-focused customer identity platform for authentication and authorization, with SDKs, APIs, extensibility, and support for consumer, B2B, and SaaS application use cases.
- Okta Customer Identity: Low-code customer identity offering built for secure, user-friendly login experiences across digital services for customers and external users.
- Lifecycle Management: Automates provisioning and deprovisioning workflows tied to joiner, mover, and leaver events across HR systems, directories, and business applications.
- Identity Governance: Manages access lifecycles, entitlements, and audit requirements to help organizations create, review, and govern access to critical resources.
- Okta Integration Network: Catalog of pre-built integrations that connects Okta, Inc. products with enterprise applications, cloud services, and security tools.
- Universal Directory: Cloud-based identity store for managing user, group, and attribute data across connected systems and applications.
- Okta Workflows: No-code automation service for orchestrating identity-driven processes across Okta, Inc. products and third-party applications.
- Access Gateway: Extends modern identity controls to legacy and on-premises applications without requiring source-code changes.
Target Customers
Okta, Inc. targets organizations that need centralized identity and access control for employees, contractors, and partners, especially those operating across multiple cloud applications, on-premises systems, and hybrid environments. Its workforce-oriented offerings are aimed at IT, security, and identity teams that want to simplify access while strengthening governance and threat response.
On the customer side, Okta, Inc. serves developers, product teams, and digital businesses building consumer, B2B, and SaaS applications that require secure authentication and authorization. Its customer identity offerings are also relevant for public sector, education, healthcare, and other organizations that need to deliver secure digital access for citizens, students, patients, and external users.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- AWS Marketplace: Okta, Inc. has a verified marketplace presence for its identity platform through AWS Marketplace.
- Amazon Web Services (AWS): Okta, Inc. provides prebuilt integrations for multiple AWS services and supports identity security, provisioning, and access management across AWS environments.
- Google Cloud: Okta, Inc. integrates with Google Cloud Platform to help enterprises manage access to GCP resources and connect identity controls across the Google ecosystem.
- Microsoft Azure: Okta, Inc. supports Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Entra ID integrations for provisioning, federation, and cloud resource access management.
Key People
- Todd McKinnon: CEO, Chairperson of the Board and Co-Founder
- Eric Kelleher: President and Chief Operating Officer
- Brett Tighe: Chief Financial Officer
- Ric Smith: President, Products and Technology
- Jon Addison: Chief Revenue Officer
- David Bradbury: Chief Security Officer
- Ed Daly: Chief Customer Officer
- Shannon Duffy: Chief Marketing Officer
- Larissa Schwartz: Chief Legal Officer
- Rebecca Port: Chief People Officer
Key Facts
- Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States
- Employees: 6,366
- Annual Revenue: $2.919 billion
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: Approximately 27 subsidiaries, including Auth0, LLC, Okta Federal, Inc., Okta UK LTD, Okta Australia Pty Limited, and Axiom Security Ltd.
- Publicly Listed: NASDAQ: OKTA
Analyst Recognitions
- Gartner: Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Access Management, 2025. Customers’ Choice in Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer: Access Management, 2025.
- Forrester: Leader in The Forrester Wave: Workforce Identity Platforms, Q1 2024.
