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Jon Lehtinen
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Jon Lehtinen

Jon Lehtinen has 16 years of enterprise identity and access management experience and specializes in both the strategy and execution of IAM transformation in global-scale organizations such as Thomson Reuters, General Electric, and Apollo Education Group. In addition to his work in the enterprise space, he has held positions on Ping Identity's Customer Advisory Board and as an advisor to identity verification start-up EvidentID. He currently owns the workforce and customer identity implementations at Okta. Jon is dedicated to the growth and maturity of IAM as a profession and serves on the Board of Directors for IDPro org. He is also a member of the Kantara Initiative, ISC2, OpenID Foundation, and Women in Identity. Jon has presented his work at several conferences, including RSA, Identiverse, and KuppingerCole's European Identity and Cloud Conference. Currently, he owns Okta's workforce and customer IAM implementations as their Director of Okta on Okta.
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What is AWS SSO?

AWS SSO is another IDaaS capability available from AWS, similar in some regards to Amazon Cognito. Whereas Amazon Cognito provides application identity capabilities, AWS SSO facilitates centralized administration for federated access to AWS accounts, as well as general identity provider capabilities. AWS SSO offers free account management, authentication services, and a strong authentication capability for AWS accounts and applications managed under an AWS organization. AWS SSO users can authenticate to one or more AWS accounts using either accounts and credentials managed by AWS SSO itself, or through accounts synched from an external authoritative source, such as an enterprise-managed directory and identity provider.

We mentioned that one of the primary use cases of AWS SSO was centralized user management and federated authentication to all AWS accounts within an AWS organization. We discussed AWS Organizations briefly at the end of Chapter 3, IAM User Management...

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Published in: Oct 2021Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781800562288

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Jon Lehtinen

Jon Lehtinen has 16 years of enterprise identity and access management experience and specializes in both the strategy and execution of IAM transformation in global-scale organizations such as Thomson Reuters, General Electric, and Apollo Education Group. In addition to his work in the enterprise space, he has held positions on Ping Identity's Customer Advisory Board and as an advisor to identity verification start-up EvidentID. He currently owns the workforce and customer identity implementations at Okta. Jon is dedicated to the growth and maturity of IAM as a profession and serves on the Board of Directors for IDPro org. He is also a member of the Kantara Initiative, ISC2, OpenID Foundation, and Women in Identity. Jon has presented his work at several conferences, including RSA, Identiverse, and KuppingerCole's European Identity and Cloud Conference. Currently, he owns Okta's workforce and customer IAM implementations as their Director of Okta on Okta.
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