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Okta Administration: Up and Running

You're reading from   Okta Administration: Up and Running Implement enterprise-grade identity and access management for on-premises and cloud apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800566644
Length 268 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Lovisa Stenbäcken Stjernlöf Lovisa Stenbäcken Stjernlöf
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with Okta
2. Chapter 1: IAM and Okta FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Working with Universal Directory 4. Chapter 3: Single Sign-On for a Great End User Experience 5. Chapter 4: Increasing Security with Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication 6. Chapter 5: Automating Using Life Cycle Management 7. Chapter 6: Customizing Your Okta GUI 8. Section 2: Extending Okta
9. Chapter 7: API Management 10. Chapter 8: Managing Access with Advanced Server Access 11. Chapter 9: Leveraging Access Gateway for Your On-Premises Applications 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

API terminology

There is some terminology that we need to go through, to be able to understand all aspects of API management and API access management:

  • API product: An application with a group of API endpoints. These endpoints can have different needs and use cases, but listen to the same authorization server to understand what a user or service can and cannot do. It also is the service that a user logs into using OpenID Connect with an ID token.
  • API: These are the endpoints where data is available and interchangeable between systems depending on the request and resource and access grant.
  • Authorization server: An authorization server is at its core an OAuth 2.0 minting machine, utilizing Okta's scopes, claims, and access policies. You can create authorization servers in Okta, typically one server per API product. The server is typically used for one use case rather than one endpoint.
  • Scopes: Scopes are operations performed on your API endpoints. They are built...
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