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Lovisa Stenbäcken Stjernlöf
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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 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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API Access Management administration

So, let's go into the Okta administrator panel to set up some of the features that were examined in the last section. Navigate to Security | API. Here, we see that we have three tabs we can work with:

  • Authentication Servers
  • Tokens
  • Trusted Origins

This is what it looks like in the admin panel:

Figure 7.3 – Available tabs for API management

As we already spoke about Tokens and Trusted Origins earlier in this chapter, we will now only focus on Authorization Servers. If you don't have the API Access Management product enabled, you will only see this menu for the default org authorization server, explained next.

Authorization server

To start off, we need to look at why you might need an authorization server. An authorization server is basically something to create and solidify (or mint, as it's normally called) Oauth 2.0 or OpenID Connect tokens. You can use it for authentication...

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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