VMtech enhances security with Okta partnership
Hybrid Cloud provider, VMtech, has expanded its security and Cloud offerings through a partnership with identity and mobility management vendor, Okta.
Hybrid Cloud provider, VMtech, has expanded its security and Cloud offerings through a partnership with identity and mobility management vendor, Okta.
Identity-as-a-service technology company, Okta, has received $US75 million in new funding. Existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners and Sequoia Capital, led the round with participation from Khosla Ventures, Altimeter, Glynn Capital and others.
A new report from mobility management company Okta states that APAC is the world leader in using mobile devices for work.
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Though it offers a business-tier plan, Dropbox has historically lacked a full-blown business platform on the order of Box and its APIs. That's about to change with the introduction of the Dropbox for Business API.
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Identity is hard.
Identity Solutions has joined Okta as a reseller, becoming the identity and access management vendor’s first Australian channel partner.
Identity and access management vendor Ping Identity today unveiled software-based multi-factor authentication that lets users to sign onto an enterprise service or system with a swipe of their smartphone.
Okta plans to use its investment funds to establish a presence within the Australian market.
Having migrated his company from on-site servers and applications to a cloud-based software-as-a-service, Nathan McBride, vice president of information technology at AMAG Pharmaceuticals, is now working to influence security by getting five cloud security service providers to build what he wants.
You might think Okta CEO Todd McKinnon would be concerned by the fact that Salesforce.com just launched a competing cloud identity management service, but if McKinnon indeed is, he's good at hiding it.
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While using cloud-based applications solves some problems for IT administrators, it also creates new ones, including how to handle user identity management.