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Published inDec 2020
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Lovisa Stenbäcken Stjernlöf
Lovisa Stenbäcken Stjernlöf
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Lovisa Stenbäcken Stjernlöf

Lovisa has been with Devoteam for over 4 years, working with multiple cloud vendors during that period. Starting out as a Project Manager, gaining certifications within G Suite and Salesforce, it was a natural step to start helping customers with their complete cloud setup, including Okta. Apart from customer work, she also has experience with management, both in resources and budget. With several Okta implementations under her belt and an Okta Professional certification in the bag, she now heads the Okta practice within Devoteam.
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HenkJan de Vries
HenkJan de Vries
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HenkJan de Vries

HenkJan has extensive experience with Okta, being an Okta partner engineer for over 5 years. With a long history of both implementing and supporting many Okta customers, he understands what long term requirements look like, but also the day to day management within organizations. Currently, he is strategically supporting customers to reach all their Okta potential. HenkJan is a certified consultant and is currently part of the exclusive SME group within Okta. Besides his business-related reach, he also enjoys helping unknown and uncontracted customers on several community boards, and by doing so, he has been named an Okta Advocate in 2019 and an Okta Community Leader in 2020.
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Basic MFA settings

Before deep-diving into Okta's adaptive functionalities, let's look at the basic settings that are available in the Single Sign-On (SSO) licenses. It's possible to set MFA both when signing in to Okta and when signing in to applications. Different levels of security and factors can be set for different logins. As an example, if Okta Verify is determined as safe enough to log in to Okta, biometrics might be added as a factor to log in as an administrator to a business-critical system. Before we can do anything, we have to enable the different kinds of factors available that you want to allow your end users to be able to enroll in. Navigate to Security | Multifactor in the top menu in the administrator console. On the first tab, you will choose which factors you want your end users to be able to use. Remember, any factors you enable aren't mandatory to all end users and are not active until end users actually enroll in them. You have your end users...

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Lovisa Stenbäcken Stjernlöf

Lovisa has been with Devoteam for over 4 years, working with multiple cloud vendors during that period. Starting out as a Project Manager, gaining certifications within G Suite and Salesforce, it was a natural step to start helping customers with their complete cloud setup, including Okta. Apart from customer work, she also has experience with management, both in resources and budget. With several Okta implementations under her belt and an Okta Professional certification in the bag, she now heads the Okta practice within Devoteam.
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HenkJan de Vries

HenkJan has extensive experience with Okta, being an Okta partner engineer for over 5 years. With a long history of both implementing and supporting many Okta customers, he understands what long term requirements look like, but also the day to day management within organizations. Currently, he is strategically supporting customers to reach all their Okta potential. HenkJan is a certified consultant and is currently part of the exclusive SME group within Okta. Besides his business-related reach, he also enjoys helping unknown and uncontracted customers on several community boards, and by doing so, he has been named an Okta Advocate in 2019 and an Okta Community Leader in 2020.
Read more about HenkJan de Vries