Application Types

Question 1

What is an Identity Provider?

Answer 1

A service that creates and maintains identity information and then provides authentication services to your applications. Identity providers can significantly reduce sign in and registration friction, allowing your users to easily access applications without need to create new passwords or remember usernames.

Question 2

What are the benefits of using Okta to manage identity providers?

Answer 2

No custom code

One protocol

Single user store

Profile sync

Account linking

Group sync

OAuth 2.0 Scope Configuration

Question 3

What is JIT provisioning?

Answer 3

Just in time automatically creates an Okta account when a user signs in to your application for the first time using another identity Provider.

Question 4

What is IdP Discovery?

Answer 4

If you have more than one Identity Provider configured in your org, you can define logic to determine which Identity Provider individual end users are routed to when they authenticated.