Computacenter (UK) Ltd

Computacenter - Okta

Okta is a leading identity solution providing single-sign on, multi-factor authentication, access provisioning and lifecycle management for both cloud based and on-premise applications.

Features

• Single Sign-On
• Universal Directory
• Identity Lifecycle Management (Identity Provisioning)
• Advanced Server Access
• Multi Factor Authentication
• Adaptive Multifactor Authentication
• API Access Management
• Access Gateway
• Identity Workflows
• Integrations (eg. Active Directory and SAAS Apps)

Benefits

• Securely store users and passwords and Enforce password policies
• Seamless access from any device or location
• Reduced helpdesk cost, and password resets
• Passwordless experience
• Reduce users and customers IT friction
• Automate joiner, mover, leaver process, including account deprovisioning
• Reduce audit time and risk
• No hardware, quick to deploy
• Access Gateway to on premise applications (application proxy)
• Workflows: Identity driven, low code workflow automations

£1,500 a user a month

• Education pricing available
• Free trial available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

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Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

173502672866567

Contact

Karen Baldock
+44 (0) 1707 631000
government@computacenter.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: Integration catalogue: https://www.okta.com/integrations/ ; Any software supporting standards based single sign-on or user provisioning; Non-exhaustive examples:; HCM/HR - Workday, SAP Success factors; Collaboration software - MS Office 365, Google Workspace, Zoom, Slack; Zero Trust - Proofpoint/Crowdstrike/Zscaler; ITSM - ServiceNow/Remedy/Jira; CRM - Salesforce/Dynamics/Zoho; Platforms - AWS/GCP/Azure/VMWare
• Cloud deployment model: Public cloud
• Service constraints: N/a
• System requirements: Appropriate Licensing and access for integration configurations.

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: SLA's for the different support levels can be found at: https://support.okta.com/help/s/article/Okta-Support-Service-Level-Agreements-by-Customer-Success-Package
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support: No
• Onsite support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support levels: "Basic Success Business Hours: 12 hours/day x 5 days/week, excluding US holidays (6:00am - 6:00pm in the timezone of the Customer's HQ site); Premier, Premier Access & Premier Plus Success Business Hours: 24 Hours/Day x 7 Days/Week x 365 Days/Year; Premier Plus Success also includes a Customer Success Manager"
• Support available to third parties: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: Okta offers three support tiers to match your organization's needs; Basic, Premier and Premier Plus. Basic Support - The Okta Basic Success Package gives you access to training, the helpdesk forum, FAQs, on-line user guides and tutorials, and briefings of upcoming releases. Premier Support - The Okta Premier Success Package gives you access to live and pre-recorded training, 24x7 support with 1 hour response times, FAQs, on-line user guides, and tutorials so you get the most value from Okta. Premier Plus Support - The Okta Premier Plus Success package offers the most exclusive level of support. In addition to your own support number and priority routing to support engineers, you’ll work with a named Customer Success Manager (CSM), who is dedicated to understanding where your business is today, where you’d like to be tomorrow, and how Okta can help you get there. For more info on Okta support options please visit support.okta.com
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
• End-of-contract data extraction: Currently, the only way to bulk extract data from Okta is using the Okta API (freely documented). Optional Services can be purchased in order to provide assistance in the data extraction process. ; ; To deliver on this commitment, we partner with a third-party accessibility testing service, train our teams to build accessible products, and continually listen to customer feedback to build products that fit your needs. "
• End-of-contract process: Okta is a subscription based software so customers will have the opportunity to renew their licences before their contract comes to an end, this can be a 1 or multi-year term. If the customer chooses not to renew, the contract is ended.

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Supported browsers:
  • Internet Explorer 11
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
  • Opera
• Application to install: No
• Designed for use on mobile devices: Yes
• Differences between the mobile and desktop service: The Okta web portal is browser based for both types of devices so only differences will be between the device display properties. The Okta mobile application is available at no extra cost.
• Service interface: Yes
• User support accessibility: None or don’t know
• Description of service interface: Okta has many ways to interact, including a web dashboard. The web dashboard is utilised by users to open assigned applications using Okta initiated single sign on (including multi factor). Administrators will use the web interface to do CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Deactivate) of users and groups as well as setup application connections and configure authentication and multifactor policies.
• Accessibility standards: WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
• Accessibility testing: N/a
• API: Yes
• What users can and can't do using the API: Okta's API is a REST API that can be used to set up, manage and make changes to the service, including interactions against Users, Applications, Groups, Administration (Managing Admins and Event Information). The API can also be used for authentication and session management. Full Documentation, Developer Instances and Postman templates are also availably publicly via the developer.okta.com website. Most functions available in the admin dashboard are also available through the API.
• API documentation: Yes
• API documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
• API sandbox or test environment: Yes
• Customisation available: Yes
• Description of customisation: Modular licensing allows for specific solution creation per user demand. Dashboard and branding can be altered to meet user requirements and API allows for further customisation.

Scaling

• Independence of resources: Being able to scale is only one part of the equation. Today’s users expect a seamless experience while IT adapts to an increasing demand. Interruptions and downtime can severely hurt organization’s productivity. Okta is built to handle this challenge with a guaranteed 99.9% uptime, and zero planned downtime. Furthermore, Okta has maintained a 100% global uptime in the last 2 years, with no major service disruption, as it scaled 640% in the amount of authentications per month it needed to handle. Okta is never taken offline for updates or maintenance.

Analytics

• Service usage metrics: Yes
• Metrics types: While usage data and service metrics can be discovered within our system log. High level reports can be provided by the Okta team as required on request.
• Reporting types: Reports on request

Resellers

• Supplier type: Reseller providing extra features and support
• Organisation whose services are being resold: Okta

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:
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • Other locations
• User control over data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Datacentre security standards: Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
• Penetration testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Penetration testing approach: Another external penetration testing organisation
• Protecting data at rest:
  • Physical access control, complying with CSA CCM v3.0
  • Encryption of all physical media
• Data sanitisation process: No
• Equipment disposal approach: Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001

Data importing and exporting

• Data export approach: Currently, the only way to bulk extract data from Okta is using the Okta API (freely documented). Optional Services can be purchased in order to provide assistance in the data extraction process.
• Data export formats:
  • CSV
  • Other
• Other data export formats: Via the Okta API
• Data import formats:
  • CSV
  • Other
• Other data import formats:
  • Various formats using the Okta API
  • Directory Services (such as Active Directory)
  • SCIM

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: Identity is Always On, and so are we. We built the Okta service for high availability and a guaranteed uptime. https://support.okta.com/help/Documentation/Knowledge_Article/Okta-Support-Service-Level-Agreements-by-Customer-Success-Package
• Approach to resilience: Since we are aiming for billions of users and authentications, in 2014 we rolled out a new platform architecture that will get us to extreme scale. We call this architecture “cells”. A cell is a self-contained instance of the entire Okta service. Any fault in infrastructure is contained within a cell using a High Availability (HA) architecture, and even in case of an entire datacenter going down, another cell in a different geography takes ownership of the affected accounts within an hour.
• Outage reporting: You can see an updated status of Okta’s availability at all times by going to trust.okta.com. All users will also receive email alerts informing them of the problem, estimated outage time and a further email once fully restored.

Identity and authentication

• User authentication needed: Yes
• User authentication:
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Username or password
  • Other
• Other user authentication: Passwordless, webauthn/FIDO 2.0, Desktop SSO; ; The Okta authentication engine determines the types of authentication required as set in policy for the application for which, access is being requested, by the users.
• 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:
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Username or password
  • Other
• Description of management access authentication: TOTP, webauthn/FIDO 2.0

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 6 months and 12 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: The Certification Body of Schellman & Company, Inc.
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: 08/07/2016
• 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: 31/05/2016
• CSA STAR certification level: Level 2: CSA STAR Attestation
• What the CSA STAR doesn’t cover: Schellman & Company, LLC examined the description of Okta, Inc.’s (“Okta” or the “service organization”) 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:
  • HIPAA
  • SOC2
  • FedRamp

Security governance

• Named board-level person responsible for service security: Yes
• Security governance certified: Yes
• Security governance standards:
  • ISO/IEC 27001
  • Other
• Other security governance standards: "Compliance can be found here: https://trust.okta.com/compliance; SOC 2 Type II Certified ; HIPAA; CSA Star"
• 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: Conforms to a recognised standard, but self-assessed

Public sector networks

• Connection to public sector networks: No

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  • Fighting climate change
  • Covid-19 recovery
  • Tackling economic inequality
  • Equal opportunity
  • Wellbeing

  Fighting climate change

  Computacenter ensures that our business practices deliver effective stewardship of the environment in line with the Social Value Model. Computacenter's science-based emissions reductions targets are approved with the SBTi. Our Net Zero Journey Group Emissions is now just 16% of 2015 levels as outlined in our carbon reduction plan to achieve ‘Net Zero’ carbon emissions by 2040. Business travel is necessary, both for our customer requirements and for our staff. We have materially reduced business travel, ensuring all business trips are necessary, helping reduce carbon emissions. We are investing in technology to allow greater use of existing communication platforms as part of our ‘hybrid working’ strategy. One of the key benefits we believe this will help us realise is reducing emissions from business travel by 35 per cent by 2025 (compared to 2019). For G-Cloud services this means that we will drive the use of virtual, technology-enabled meetings as much as possible for all internal and external sessions, including those with our wider supply chain. Further to this we can provide customer advisory services which include guidance and recommendations on how to improve their sustainability performance to help inform customer decision making whilst achieving the desired commercial and technical outcomes through the services being provided. Computacenter has introduced incentives to encourage the replacement of the existing Fleet with Ultra Low Emission Vehicles. We have 44 electric charging points across 2 of our locations to encourage the adoption of electric and hybrid vehicles, either through our company car scheme or privately. For this framework specifically, this means that our consultants, project managers and engineering resource will have access to a ULEV vehicle via our company car scheme and the ability to charge a vehicle at Computacenter office locations.

  Covid-19 recovery

  Throughout the pandemic we have closely followed and implemented government guidance relating to the workplace and COVID-19. We created a COVID-19 risk assessment to enable us to understand the improvements that need to be made to our workplace conditions in line with the Government COVID-19 secure workplace guidelines and the business advice that is now current. It looks at the risks of COVID-19 in the workplace, such as hygiene, & cleaning and then states what we must put in place to mitigate these risks. As we enter the recovery phase of the pandemic, we have introduced hybrid working for our employees. This will allow most employees including those delivering G-Cloud services increased flexibility in how and where they work ensuring that we still deliver the best service to our customers whilst looking after our people. Our COVID-19 steering committee is there to identify activities that will improve workplace conditions then plan, build and regularly monitor various programmes focused on supporting the COVID-19 recovery effort. At these meetings, chaired by our Chief People Officer (‘CPO’) Sarah Long, our CIO John Gibbs and Services operations, the steering committee discuss changes that need to be implemented, identify areas of improvement, and review our roadmap of new activities. Throughout the life of the contract, we will use our existing activities (as well as those that are in development in due course) to continue to improve workplace conditions in support of the COVID-19 recovery effort. Questions relating to travel were included in the COVID-19 surveys that were issued through the pandemic. The assessment highlighted concerns people had about public transport. To help all employees; managers were coached and given guidance about being flexible with start/finish times. We continue to adapt our approach based on feedback received through the steering committee and employee surveys.

  Tackling economic inequality

  As a diverse and inclusive organisation with a strong focus on equality and driving in-work progression, our approach to recruitment and employment is aligned to recognised industry best practices such as the 5 principles of quality work as set out in the Good Work Plan. Our Employee Impact Groups for disadvantaged or minority groups provide representation, support, and community engagement, feeding into our People Panel ensuring all voices are heard, underpinning our wider ambition of building a sustainable business for the long term. We put specific measures in place to provide opportunities to under-represented groups or those who face barriers to employment, including comprehensive outreach programmes for schools and universities, as well as partnerships with non-profit organisations within our communities. We continue focus on reaching harder to reach groups and people who are underrepresented in our sector by working with charities and schools in the local community to offer career talks and work experience opportunities. Our school outreach programme has over 130 volunteers dedicating over 2,600 hours running activities for employability and life skills in schools, colleges, and universities. Computacenter is one of the 9 founding members of ‘Technology Community for Racial Equality’ (‘TC4RE’), a group set up to drive racial equality throughout the technology industry, with which we are delivering a half-day virtual event on ‘Enabling Ethnic Diversity’ featuring a series of expert keynotes, live panel discussions and interactive workshops with representation from across the UK technology community. Furthermore, Computacenter are a silver level partner in the Armed Forces Covenant and has introduced a programme that provides the opportunity to attain a degree and ServiceNow certification whilst receiving full salary for armed forces leavers. This programme is the first of many programmes we intend on running to help ex-forces personal transition back into the workplace and the IT industry.

  Equal opportunity

  Computacenter is committed to providing equal opportunities to all through fair recruitment practices and employment conditions across our organisation. We are a Disability Confident ‘Committed’ employer, committed to making lasting changes to our business creating a diverse talent pool. We work with partners through our community outreach, who are specialists in disability. An example is our work with Knightsfield School in Welwyn Garden City, a specialist school for deaf children. We run at least 3 ‘get work ready’ events with them, as well as offer up to 4 work experience opportunities and onsite visits every year. For this contract, we will use existing initiatives (as well as others that are in development) to provide career opportunities for individuals from under-represented groups to address requirements for specific skills or roles with a focus on increasing skillsets through the life of the contract. This will include apprenticeships aligned to security and cloud/infrastructure departments, as well as industrial placements and graduate schemes for our ServiceNow Centre of Excellence, with specific focus on delivering cloud-based services to our customers. Our workforce for services delivered under this framework will have access to existing initiatives aimed at supporting in-work progression and development for those from disadvantaged/minority groups. For example, our gender diversity initiatives include our Growing Together programme, which over 150 women have been through so far, of which over one-third have been promoted or taken a new role within a year following the mentoring and coaching provided. We are also committed to driving racial equality across our business and the wider technology industry. We are a founding member of ‘Technology Community for Racial Equality’ which recently delivered a half-day virtual event on ‘Enabling Ethnic Diversity’ featuring a series of expert keynotes, live panel discussions and interactive workshops with representation from across the UK technology community.

  Wellbeing

  We understand how important employee Wellbeing is for a sustainable business model, therefore we are committed to creating a sustainable supply chain. Ensuring the wellbeing of our employees are looked after will positively affect productivity, recruitment, and retention rates. In November 2021, a designated UK wellbeing manager was appointed and has since launched our wellbeing strategy, which aligns with the Social Value Model and the 6 standards of the Mental Health at Work Commitment, signed in July 2021. We are actively implementing the enhanced mental health standards as recommended through the ‘Thriving at Work’ review, and NICE mental health at work guidelines, as part of our Wellbeing strategy. The strategy encompasses four pillars of wellbeing, mental, physical, financial, and social. We are a Menopause friendly organisation and have created a support network for those in need. We have 109 Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) accredited staff in the UK, trained by Mind, who act as Wellbeing Champions providing mental health first aid support and promoting our wellbeing services which those delivering G-Cloud service provisions will have access to. These champions are from every business area and from different seniority. We hold events throughout the year organised by our UK wellbeing manager and Champions, which have included celebrating World Mental Health days, Menopause awareness, financial wellbeing webinars and sponsored events to raise money for our mental health charity partners. 2021 also saw the launch of our new groupwide app-based programme ‘Be Well’ which gives our people access to over 3,000 fitness, nutrition, health and wellbeing courses through Humanoo. Through this app we have launched an extremely popular groupwide step challenge and has encouraged our people to be more active, with over 35% of our workforce now using the app and covering over 1.8bn steps so far.

Pricing

• Price: £1,500 a user a month
• 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/ "

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at government@computacenter.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.