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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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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 Access Management administration

So, let's go into the Okta administrator panel to set up some of the features that were examined in the last section. Navigate to Security | API. Here, we see that we have three tabs we can work with:

  • Authentication Servers
  • Tokens
  • Trusted Origins

This is what it looks like in the admin panel:

Figure 7.3 – Available tabs for API management

As we already spoke about Tokens and Trusted Origins earlier in this chapter, we will now only focus on Authorization Servers. If you don't have the API Access Management product enabled, you will only see this menu for the default org authorization server, explained next.

Authorization server

To start off, we need to look at why you might need an authorization server. An authorization server is basically something to create and solidify (or mint, as it's normally called) Oauth 2.0 or OpenID Connect tokens. You can use it for authentication...

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