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Published inDec 2020
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ISBN-139781800566644
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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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Enrolling end users in MFA

We previously looked at how enrollment in different MFAs is working, but let's take a closer look at it from an end user perspective. We'll learn this with the help of an example: an end user enrolling in Okta Verify. After a new MFA policy is rolled out, end users will be prompted to enroll in one or multiple factors on their next sign-on. Let's look at how it would work when the user clicks Setup for Okta Verify:

  1. At the first step, the end user will select what device they are using, and then be informed to download the Okta Verify application from the device's app store.
  2. After doing this, by clicking Next, the user will scan a QR code on the screen with the Okta Verify application.

After the code is scanned, the setup is done, and the user will be sent back to the factor page. Here, they might need to enroll additional factors to complete enrollment entirely, if the policy is requiring the user to do so. If they...

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Published in: Dec 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781800566644

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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