Okta
About
The default evaluation anchor for workforce SSO, adaptive MFA, and identity lifecycle management in cloud-first enterprises — Gartner MQ Leader for Access Management for the 9th consecutive year in 2025. Workforce Identity Cloud handles employee authentication, access control, and lifecycle management across 7,000+ pre-built SaaS integrations. Customer Identity Cloud (Auth0) serves developer and B2C identity use cases. Okta has since expanded into IGA (Identity Governance, 2022) and PAM (Privile...
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Ideal Customer
- Okta's sweet spot is mid-market to large enterprise organizations, with over 80% of its ARR derived from companies with 500 to 10,000+ employees.
- The company has dedicated sales teams for global enterprises, mid-market, and SMB segments, and as of early 2024 more than 40% of Fortune 500 companies used Okta's services.
Key Differentiators
- Okta positions itself as the only major identity vendor that is vendor-neutral and independent — not tied to any hyperscaler or productivity suite — allowing it to serve as a unifying identity layer across heterogeneous environments including Microsoft, Google, AWS, and on-premises systems simultaneously.
- It has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Access Management for nine consecutive years (2017–2025) and is the only vendor recognized as a Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Access Management for six consecutive years.
Industries Served
- Okta serves a broad cross-section of industries with particular depth in technology (approximately 42% of its customer base), financial services (approximately 22%), healthcare (approximately 15%), and government/public sector (approximately 10%).
- Additional verticals include education, manufacturing, retail, travel and hospitality, nonprofits, energy, media and entertainment, and legal/professional services.
Service Coverage
- Okta operates globally as a cloud-delivered SaaS platform with no geographic restrictions on where customers can be onboarded.
- The company maintains offices across the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe — including a major international hub in Dublin, Ireland — and serves customers in every major region.
Partnerships
- Okta maintains over 1,600 documented technology and channel partnerships and has 7,000+ pre-built integrations in its Okta Integration Network spanning virtually every major enterprise SaaS and infrastructure provider.
- Strategic cloud partnerships include a deep AWS alliance (with 25+ product integrations, $1 billion in cumulative AWS Marketplace sales as of early 2025, and recognition as 2024 AWS Global Marketplace Partner of the Year), Google Cloud (2024 Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year for Productivity and Collaboration), and Microsoft Azure.
Company Size & Ownership
- Okta was founded in January 2009 by Todd McKinnon and Frederic Kerrest (originally as SaaSure Inc.) and went public on Nasdaq (OKTA) in April 2017 at $17.00 per share.
- The company reported FY2026 revenue of approximately $2.92 billion (up from $2.61 billion in FY2025 and $2.26 billion in FY2024), achieving its first full-year GAAP net income of $235 million in FY2026.
Compliance & Certifications
- Okta holds an extensive portfolio of certifications documented at its public Security Trust Center (security.okta.com), including SOC 1, SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27017:2015, ISO/IEC 27018:2019, PCI DSS v4.0, HIPAA (with BAA available for enterprise customers provisioned in dedicated regulated cells), FedRAMP Moderate (authorized on the FedRAMP Marketplace), FedRAMP High, DoD IL5, FIPS 140-2, GDPR, CSA STAR Level 1 and Level 2, NIST 800-53 Rev.
- 5, GovRAMP, DORA, TISAX, IRAP, and StateRAMP.
Compiled from public sources by VenSearch · Last researched October 14, 2026
Offerings
4 offeringsCustomer Identity Cloud (Auth0)
Developer-facing B2C and B2B identity platform for embedding authentication into customer-facing applications. Supports passkeys, social login, passwordless, and universal login with pre-built SDKs for every major language and framework.
Okta Identity Governance
IGA module adding access certifications, access requests, and policy-based governance to the Workforce Identity Cloud. Competes with SailPoint for organizations wanting IGA and SSO/MFA from a single vendor rather than two separate platforms.
Okta Privileged Access
Cloud-native PAM module extending Okta into privileged account management — credential vaulting, just-in-time access, and session recording for infrastructure resources. Tightly integrated with Workforce Identity Cloud; best for organizations already standardized on Okta who want PAM without adding CyberArk.
Workforce Identity Cloud
Core SSO, adaptive MFA, and lifecycle management platform. Universal Directory serves as the cloud identity store across all enterprise apps. Automated joiner/mover/leaver workflows provision and deprovision access across connected apps as employees change roles or leave. 7,000+ pre-built integrations cover virtually every enterprise SaaS application.
Considering Okta?
Our team will work with you to determine if Okta is the right fit for your organization. From research and assessment through procurement negotiation and ongoing vendor management — we handle the entire process at no cost to you.