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Since acquiring the application team platform Auth0 in 2001, identity management company Okta has pursued a platform-neutral strategy for both internal and external consumer identity authentication that includes delivering insights to IT teams overseeing security and identity-based access protocols.<\/p>\n

The 14-year-old company and single sign-on market share leader<\/a> announced this month that it is adding a key element of visibility, the Security Center<\/a>, to its Auth0-powered Okta Customer Identity Cloud.<\/p>\n

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Offering wide visibility of authentication activity<\/h2>\n

The Security Center dashboard is designed to give near real-time asset visibility to teams focused on customer identity, user experience and security. The Security Center serves up authentication events, security incidents and user experience at points, particularly where security friction could make or break the consumer interface experience, according to Okta (Figure A<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

Figure A<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Near real-time telemetry from Okta Customer Identity Cloud Security Center dashboard. Image: Okta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ian Hassard, senior director of project management at Okta, said that, going forward, every Okta enterprise customer will have Security Center access whether they have the company\u2019s attack protection product or not<\/p>\n

Addressing identity and sign-on management challenges<\/h2>\n

Hassard explained that, while Okta\u2019s technologies serve both internal employees and external-facing identity interfaces, the latter environment presents special challenges.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the customer identity world, we\u2019re talking about 10 million or 50 million users, which means sorting through a lot of the noise and trying to surface attack insights, which are a little hard for somebody who\u2019s not living and breathing customer identity,\u201d Hassard said.<\/p>\n

SEE:<\/strong> How one company is using artificial intelligence for two-factor authentication<\/a> (TechRepublic)<\/p>\n

Using insights to parse attack veracity<\/h2>\n