Access Gateway overview

Using only cloud applications is not possible for many organizations out there. Instead, these organizations are looking at having a hybrid cloud solution for many years to come. For IT admins, this creates a problem. After deploying Okta and having one platform for identity, you don't want to manage identity in other places as well. With Access Gateway, you can utilize Okta's products, such as SSO and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), to applications that use header-based or URL-based authorization or Kerberos.

Even though there are all sorts of vendors out there that can help you access your legacy on-prem systems and software, it usually requires a lot of hardware, maintenance, and upkeep. Redundancy, management, updating, and patching all have their own issues and configurations that require timing, downtime, and fallbacks.

Even then, access probably is done using a VPN or other remote access capabilities to make sure that the users can...