This on-demand integration lab is a capability of WWT's Advanced Technology Center (ATC), designed to provide hands-on experience with Okta. The purpose of this lab is to help you develop proficiency in navigating and configuring features within the Okta admin console. In this lab environment, you will gain hands-on experience with essential Okta tasks, including managing users and groups, integrating applications using SAML, and connecting Okta with Active Directory. You will also explore how to configure device assurance policies, ensuring secure access across various devices.

In this lab we will be addressing a specific set of BIG-IP (versatility) characteristics: authentication and orchestration. In doing so, we will also be showing you some powerful capabilities of BIG-IP APM and SSL Orchestrator.

In today's cloud-centric, BYOD-driven and distributed microservices landscape, traditional security measures such as VPNs and perimeter defenses struggle to keep pace with the increasing need for enterprise security. Implicitly trusting entities within a network poses significant risks, necessitating a paradigm shift. Enter Zero Trust—an approach that requires independent security for every enterprise asset and authenticates and authorizes user and process identities at every level. This lab explores the critical role of OAuth in enabling a Zero Trust architecture and allows lab users to implement & test the OAuth Solution.

This lab features Beyond Identity which is an authentication solution that uses device-bound credentials for zero-friction passwordless authentication. Beyond Identity is a cloud-native platform that uses Authenticators downloaded on endpoints which registers a users credentials and collects signals on the endpoint to capture device security posture for authentication.