Auth0 (Okta)
Auth0 Identity Platform is a cloud-based identity management service that helps organizations leveraging applications by providing a secure cloud-based identity platform to better understand, efficiently manage and intelligently engage their users. Auth0 provides an easy way to implement the most complex identity solutions across any technology stack or platform.
Features
- Adaptive context-aware security
- User Analytics & Progressive Profiling
- API authorization for user, machine authentication and third-party authorization
- Centralized management dashboard for easy access & better control
- Delegated Administration for granular and role-based control
- Extensibility - For customizing, extending existing capabilities of the platform
- Single Sign On integrations for popular and custom applications
- Identity Providers integration to different data sources
- Lock widget - easily embeddable login box for all apps
- Delegation - Enables organizations to streamline their user identity flow
Benefits
- Ease of deployment, integration across any technology stack, environment
- Variety of flexible deployment (public cloud, private cloud) options
- Speeds development, reduces risk by moving identity complexity to cloud
- Configuration is as easy as flipping switches
- Multiplatform Application Support for seamless experience across platforms
- Improved user efficiency, collaboration, better conversion and revenue
- Integrates seamlessly with existing investments and workflows
- On-demand enterprise scalability for unpredictable/predictable user traffic
- High availability, resiliency for services
- Adherence to popular identity, security compliance standards and certifications
Pricing
£1,500 a user
- Education pricing available
- Free trial available
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
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Contact
INTEGRITY360 LIMITED
Davide Poli
Telephone: 02083721000
Email: bidreviewboard@integrity360.com
Service scope
- Software add-on or extension
- Yes, but can also be used as a standalone service
- What software services is the service an extension to
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Okta has extensive list of integrations with can be viewed at https://www.okta.com/integrations/ however via various different types of connectors Okta can integrate most applications subject to scope.
Some main integration partners include:
Zoom
ServiceNow
AWS
Slack
Office 365
Salesforce
VMware - Cloud deployment model
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- Public cloud
- Private cloud
- Service constraints
- N/A
- System requirements
- N/A
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- https://auth0.com/docs/troubleshoot/customer-support#defect-resolution-procedures
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- WCAG 2.1 A
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Web chat support
- No
- Onsite support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support levels
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Support levels:
1. Free Plan- No charge, part of Free plan. No dedicated account manager/engineer
2. Standard Support- part of Developer and Developer pro plan. No dedicated account manager/engineer
3. Enterprise Support- part of Enterprise plan. Includes dedicated customer success engineer
4. Premier Support- Add-on to Enterprise plan. Includes dedicated success manager - Support available to third parties
- Yes
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
- Auth0 has a video series dedicated to getting started and learning identity. In addition, Auth0 has documentation and quickstarts to help get started with the product. If on-site training is required, professional services can be available as a package. Information around what types of packages available through professional services can be seen here: https://auth0.com/docs/services/auth0-introduction.
- Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
- HTML
- End-of-contract data extraction
- Auth0's APIs can be ustilised to extract any data required at any time. Additionally, Auth0 provides a GUI to export data in the form of an extension.
- End-of-contract process
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At the end-of-contract the plan automatically gets converted into Free plan with limited features and support.
More details about plans: https://auth0.com/pricing
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Supported browsers
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- Microsoft Edge
- Firefox
- Chrome
- Safari
- Application to install
- No
- Designed for use on mobile devices
- Yes
- Differences between the mobile and desktop service
- Auth0 Identity service is provided in the form of SDKs and APIs allowing uniform usability on mobile, web and native applications.
- Service interface
- No
- User support accessibility
- None or don’t know
- API
- Yes
- What users can and can't do using the API
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Auth0 implements an API first strategy across the platform to provide extensive APIs for authentication and the management of the tenant. The Authentication API exposes Auth0 identity functionality, as well as those of supported identity protocols (such as OpenID Connect, OAuth, and SAML). The Management API allows the management of every aspect of the Auth0 tenant. The following links documents all the API endpoints using an interactive API Explorer interface. Product samples showing classic use cases leveraging the API is part of the provided documentation as well.
https://auth0.com/docs/api/authentication
https://auth0.com/docs/api/management/v2 - API documentation
- Yes
- API documentation formats
- Open API (also known as Swagger)
- API sandbox or test environment
- Yes
- Customisation available
- Yes
- Description of customisation
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Auth0 offers a very customizable & extensible solution where customers can bring their own business logic and branding.
To name a few points, Auth0 allows you to customize the look & feel of the Universal Login; Pick and choose MFA factors; Integrate with any Identity Provider that leverages open standards like OIDC, OAuth2.0, SAML, WSFED; Customize the authentication and authorization pipeline using Actions, Rules & Custom DBs, and many more
Scaling
- Independence of resources
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Two-region failover approach. The main data store is continuously replicated to the secondary region and typically runs with under 10-second replication lag. On a regional outage, a scripted engineer initiated failover reconfigures for operation out of the failover site.
The infrastructure layer runs on Amazon Web Services. It is designed to survive a single data center outage (AZ) and continue to operate without interruption. In Amazon, each AZ has independent fault boundaries for power, network, and physical infrastructure. The Auth0 design spreads services across AZ's for full multi-datacenter regional redundancy.
The storage layer contains the vital data of our customers.
Analytics
- Service usage metrics
- Yes
- Metrics types
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https://auth0.com/docs/logs/streams
Log Streams to export events in near real-time.
Log Event Filters: https://auth0.com/docs/logs/references/log-event-filters
Lists the log filters for errors, warnings, and success events.
Log Event Type Codes: https://auth0.com/docs/logs/references/log-event-type-codes
Lists the event codes associated with log events.
Administrator and Developer Log Usage Examples: https://auth0.com/docs/logs/concepts/logs-admins-devs
Examples of how logs are used if you are an administrator or a developer. - Reporting types
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- API access
- Real-time dashboards
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Reseller (no extras)
- Organisation whose services are being resold
- Okta/Auth0
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Up to Developed Vetting (DV)
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
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- United Kingdom
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- Other locations
- User control over data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Datacentre security standards
- Managed by a third party
- Penetration testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Penetration testing approach
- Another external penetration testing organisation
- Protecting data at rest
- Encryption of all physical media
- Data sanitisation process
- Yes
- Data sanitisation type
- Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
- Equipment disposal approach
- In-house destruction process
Data importing and exporting
- Data export approach
- Auth0's APIs can be ustilised to extract any data required at any time. Additionally, Auth0 provides a GUI to export data in the form of a pre-configured module (extension).
- Data export formats
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- CSV
- Other
- Other data export formats
- JSON
- Data import formats
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- CSV
- Other
- Other data import formats
- JSON
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- Data protection within supplier network
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
- 99.99% availability in Public AND Private Cloud
- Approach to resilience
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At a high level, Auth0's availability strategy is rather simple, and yet very effective: we ensure that critical dependencies are redundant, we rapidly detect failures, and our failover is very quick. The Auth0 architecture implements redundant components at all levels such as:
- DNS
- Datacenter
- Application layer
- Storage
Auth0 has taken multiple steps to ensure extra availability. One important aspect is how the application is architected, including how user sessions are managed, how functionality is partitioned, how the availability of modules is prioritized , and how transient conditions are handled.
Auth0 is designed and built as a scalable, highly available, multi-tenant cloud service.
This highly reliable architecture is combined with solid operational processes and a culture of continuous improvement that constantly refines and improves Auth0 operations - Outage reporting
- Public dashboard - https://status.auth0.com/
Identity and authentication
- User authentication needed
- Yes
- User authentication
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- 2-factor authentication
- Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
- Username or password
- Other
- Other user authentication
- Employees authenticate via the Okta service, including 2 factor authentication into the Okta portal, from where they can get Single Sign On access to applications
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
- Access to support channels is only granted to administrative users and security check is carried out when a user raises a support ticket. Management interfaces is also locked down to administrative users.
- Access restriction testing frequency
- At least once a year
- Management access authentication
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- 2-factor authentication
- Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
- Username or password
- Other
- Description of management access authentication
- Only Okta's technical operations team has access to the production environment containing customer data. Network layer controls ensure that privileged access is always enforced through whitelisted IPs and hosts, using encrypted VPN tunnels through non-standard ports. Technical operations personnel are assigned an SSH key pair to authenticate to the production environment. Second-factor authentication is provided by a physically separate hardware MFA Token, such as a Yubikey.
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- Users have access to real-time audit information
- How long user audit data is stored for
- Between 1 month and 6 months
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- Users have access to real-time audit information
- How long supplier audit data is stored for
- Between 6 months and 12 months
- How long system logs are stored for
- Between 6 months and 12 months
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- Schellman & Company, Inc.
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- 8/7/2016
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- The scope of the ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certificate is limited to the information security management system (ISMS) supporting Okta’s cloud-based Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) platform and aligned with ISO/IEC 27018:2014 in accordance with the Statement of Applicability version 3.2, dated March 28, 2016.
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- Yes
- CSA STAR accreditation date
- 1/5/2015
- CSA STAR certification level
- Level 2: CSA STAR Attestation
- What the CSA STAR doesn’t cover
- OnDemand Identity-as-a-Service (“IDaaS”) system for the period May 1, 2015, to May 31, 2016, (the “description”) based on the criteria set forth in paragraph 1.26 of the AICPA Guide Reporting on Controls at a Service Organization Relevant to Security, Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality, or Privacy (SOC 2®) (“description criteria”) and the suitability of the design and operating effectiveness of controls described therein to meet the criteria for the security, availability, and confidentiality principles set forth in TSP section 100, Trust Services Principles and Criteria for Security, Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality, and Privacy (AICPA, Trust Services Principles and Criteria) (“applicable trust services criteria”), throughout the period May 1, 2015, to May 31, 2016. We have also examined the suitability of design and operating effectiveness of controls to meet the requirements set forth in the Cloud Security Alliance's Cloud Controls Matrix Version 3.0.1 control specifications.
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- No
- Cyber essentials plus
- No
- Other security certifications
- Yes
- Any other security certifications
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- SOC2
- HIPAA
- Fed Ramp
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance certified
- Yes
- Security governance standards
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- ISO/IEC 27001
- Other
- Other security governance standards
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Compliance can be found here: https://trust.okta.com/compliance
2. ISO/IEC 27001
3. Other (ISO 27018, SOC 2 Type II, CSA Star, FedRamp, FIPS 140-2) - Information security policies and processes
- The Okta team understands the need for its service to be both highly available and secure, and every aspect of the organization reflects this. From its hiring practices to the software it develops and the operational environment in which it runs, Okta understands that it is Always On. Okta enables enterprise administrators to increase security above what is available through traditional on-premises technologies. By offering strong password management capabilities, account management capabilities, easy-to-deploy multifactor authentication, and encrypted attributes, the enterprise is now able to put strong controls on high-value data while balancing the ease-of-access users demand. Okta is a leader in third-party certifications, physical and network security architecture, and reliability, so customers need not worry about putting authentication data in the cloud. Okta is trusted by organizations of all sizes and in all industries. Contact your sales representative to find out how Okta can make you more agile, more available, and more secure.
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Configuration and change management approach
- Okta’s change control process is audited and attested to in our SOC 2 Type II report. The final build is promoted to QA, which is responsible for all security, unit, and regression testing on the build. Once it passes testing, it is finalized and released to technical operations who perform deployment testing the build. After successful deployment testing, the build is deployed to staging where it will bake in for a week. Once passed, it is put through another deployment test and then installed to production. Further information can be found in Okta's change management standard operating procedures (SOP) document.
- Vulnerability management type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Vulnerability management approach
- Okta conducts continuous internal vulnerability assessment, as well as annual external penetration testing. If a potential vulnerability is identified, it is triaged among the security, engineering, and technical operations teams. Okta's security team employs a risk ranking system for all technical vulnerabilities. The ranking system also accounts for all published risk rankings within the Okta environment. Critical- and high-risk issues are addressed as quickly as possible within the next release cycle or hot patch within the context of business feasibility. Medium-risk issues are addressed within the next four release cycles. Low-risk issues are addressed when possible with feature updates.
- Protective monitoring type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Protective monitoring approach
- Okta utilizes a number of monitoring tools with centralized logging and SIEM using our own correlation rules for security monitoring, analysis, and alerting
- Incident management type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v3.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Incident management approach
- Okta has formally documented incident response & disaster recovery standard operating procedures (SOPs) that describe discovery, investigation, escalation, containment, notification, and documentation processes. Customers are provided this SOP document upon request and under NDA.
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Independent review of processes (for example CESG CPA Build Standard, ISO/IEC 27034, ISO/IEC 27001 or CSA CCM v3.0)
Public sector networks
- Connection to public sector networks
- No
Social Value
- Social Value
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Social Value
- Fighting climate change
- Tackling economic inequality
- Equal opportunity
- Wellbeing
Fighting climate change
Okta has a climate strategy, and renewable electricity program - annually we match our global office and remote workforce electricity consumption with renewable electricity by purchasing renewable electricity certificates (RECs).
Okta knew that having a robust climate strategy would be essential to our long-term success to identify principles to guide our work moving forward. Okta’s climate strategy has four pillars.
Reduce our energy consumption: Focus on impact, starting with where we have direct influence. We’re beginning our journey in the place where we can take immediate action—our offices. Our first aim is to reduce our overall energy consumption.
Electrify: we lease our offices and we are working to reduce the amount of natural gas in our real estate portfolio and move to electricity, which can be covered by renewable electricity.
Purchase renewable electricity: For the energy we still consume, we plan to transition from GHG emitting fossil fuels to renewable energy—like solar and wind. We will start this by purchasing renewable energy certificates (RECs) to match every megawatt-hour of electricity that we consume at our offices and our remote workforce. To maximize environmental and social impact, Okta purchased RECs from the California Bright Schools solar program, which supports renewable energy education and the installation of solar energy in schools across the state.
Engage our value chain on climate. The majority of our emissions are from our value chain/vendors. We want to partner with our vendors to reduce their emissions, and we ask new vendors with climate questions using new vendor forms.
Okta works collaboratively with our internal and external partners. We are partnering with a broad set of stakeholders such as Business Council on Climate Change (BC3) and Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA).Tackling economic inequality
Okta is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. As such, we understand the need to build a diverse workforce to continue to fuel innovation and collective growth. At Okta, we prioritize building a balanced team in order to continue to nurture a culture of inclusion and belonging.Equal opportunity
Through Okta for Good, Okta’s social impact arm, we’ve made a $1M commitment over three years for racial justice and equity and workforce development grants. We also formed a Racial Justice and Equity Employee Advisory Board, consisting of leaders from People of Color @ Okta (POC@Okta); the Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging; and Okta for Good teams, to determine where we’ll award these new grants. Additionally, there are specific processes built into our hiring practices to ensure diverse hiring practices. For more information about Okta's commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging, please see: https://www.okta.com/diversity/Wellbeing
Modern Health, Okta’s employee assistance program (EAP) provider, balances on-demand digital tools with virtual coaching (and therapy, if needed). Employees set up the approach that best meets their needs and covers employee family members, all at no cost.
Pricing
- Price
- £1,500 a user
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
- Free trial available
- Yes
- Description of free trial
- 30 Day trial period in which you have full suite access for 100 users limited to 5 applications.
- Link to free trial
- https://www.okta.com/free-trial/FRT/