Contextual access management

Important note

There are functionalities explained in this chapter — for instance, contextual access, dynamic zones, and behavior detection — that are only available with licenses for Adaptive MFA and Adaptive SSO products.

With Okta's contextual access, it becomes possible to use linear elements of different technologies to be combined into a more complete picture of the user's situation and requirements. Instead of assigning roles or groups to corresponding policies, Okta can act much more fluid with a multitude of vectors that are accessible and known by Okta during authentication moments.

By allowing this context to be used, Okta decides in a much more fine-grained method what to do and how to allow the user to sign in to Okta or the required application. Okta can build a risk assessment based on a stack of vectors, such as location, device, type of request, timing, and so on. From this, together with group assignments...