Review: Okta Grants Access to Necessary Apps for Authorized Schools Anywhere

September 13, 2022

There’s a common misconception that increased security must come at the expense of productivity. This can seem especially true in K–12 classrooms, where students can easily forget passwords for multiple applications, bringing learning to a halt and turning teachers into help desk technicians.
While that may have been true in the past, Okta’s single sign-on software solution shatters that notion. It can provide a major boost to security while making things easier for users. And because it’s deployed as a service, administrators have little maintenance after setup.
The Okta Identity Cloud can…

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2K, owned by Take Two Interactive and publisher of Bioshock, Xcom, and popular sports games, says its help desk was hacked and sent customers links to malware (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

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2K, owned by Take Two Interactive and publisher of Bioshock, Xcom, and popular sports games, says its help desk was hacked and sent customers links to malware — American video game publisher 2K has confirmed that its help desk platform was hacked and used to target customers …

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Akeyless, which helps companies manage passwords, certificates, and API keys, raised $65M Series B, comprising $45.5M in equity and $19.5B in debt, led by NGP (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Akeyless, which helps companies manage passwords, certificates, and API keys, raised $65M Series B, comprising $45.5M in equity and $19.5B in debt, led by NGP — Back in 2018, Refael Angel, a former security software engineer at Intuit, had an idea for a new approach to protect encryption keys …

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Implement Single Sign-On for Educator Efficiency and Security

Educators are juggling a lot this year, especially as staff shortages in K–12 school districts continue. One way for district leaders and IT administrators to ease the burden is through efficiency, which they can achieve using technical solutions such as single sign-on.
With an SSO solution in place, educators have all their applications and programs in one location. This makes the educational technology they use for teaching easier to locate and manage, even while managing a busy classroom.
Districts may also wish to implement SSO solutions for added security.
While there are many…

September 30, 2022

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