Solution Brief August 2024
Three Ways to Optimize
Software Costs & Enhance
Security with Identity
Rationalize your software while securing your workforce.
It’s no surprise that organizations struggle to solve for SaaS sprawl. Gartner has
1
estimated that 25% of SaaS spending is underutilized. But identifying inactive users
across disparate SaaS systems is often manual and time-consuming, while revoking
access to apps puts strain on IT teams and causes friction for end users.
A unified access management, governance, and privileged access solution can
enable organizations to drive more secure, optimized, and productive outcomes
with Identity. This can be achieved in three main ways:
Centralize users & apps
Centralize users and apps into a single Identity platform for enhanced
visibility and control across your tech stack
Easily provision and de-provision users across apps from a centralized
platform
Drive real-time visibility
Avoid unnecessary spending by quickly identifying unused licenses and
provisioning them to users who need them
Determine who has access to what resources, why access was granted,
and when it was last reviewed via reporting
Take informed action
Automatically identify and revoke access from inactive users to ensure a
principle of least privilege
Enable self-service access requests to maintain end-user productivity and
free up IT bandwidth
[1] Gartner: Why are you wasting your SaaS expenditure?
Solution Brief August 2024
Save costs and enforce least privilege with Okta Identity Governance.
Lifecycle Management Workflows
Pre-built integrations between HR and IT Scale complex Identity processes and
systems allow IT to automatically assign, automate security actions across your
upgrade, or revoke applications and tech stack without writing code through
access as employees join, move, or leave if-this-then-that logic, Okta’s pre-built
the company, protecting the organization connector library, and the ability to
from data loss, and eliminating orphaned connect to any publicly available API.
accounts.
Access Request Entitlement Management
Automate the process of requesting Create the ability to discover, manage,
access to applications, groups, and and assign fine-grained entitlements for
entitlement bundles by delivering a applications and resources in a single
simplified and frictionless approach plane. Attribute-based policies ensure
that automatically routes user requests least privilege throughout the lifecycle
to one or more approvers for action. changes of an employee.
Access Certification Out-of-the-box Reporting
Create audit campaigns to review your Adhere to audit and compliance
users' access to resources periodically requirements with visibility into past
and approve or revoke access resource access requests and campaigns
automatically when required, ensuring and obtain a high-level overview of past
critical resources are secure and certification campaigns, including their
reducing costs related to license sprawl. duration and resources included.
About Okta
Okta is the World’s Identity Company™. As the leading independent Identity partner, we free everyone to safely
use any technology— anywhere, on any device or app. The most trusted brands trust Okta to enable secure
access, authentication, and automation. With flexibility and neutrality at the core of our Okta Workforce Identity
and Customer Identity Clouds, business leaders and developers can focus on innovation and accelerate digital
transformation, thanks to customizable solutions and more than 7,000 pre-built integrations. We’re building a
world where Identity belongs to you. Learn more at okta.com.
