Okta, Inc. yesterday announced the general availability of Security Center, a new feature that helps enterprise customers optimize their identity security posture by leveraging insights from Okta Customer Identity Cloud to provide a single view of authentication events, potential security incidents, and threat response efficacy. It includes real-time data on companies’ current state of attack protection, out-of-the-box threat monitoring on major identity attack vectors, and application-level visibility into authentication traffic.
Security Center provides an improved way to visualize this type of data directly from the Okta Customer Identity Cloud. Security Center leverages Okta Customer Identity Cloud security insights to provide CISOs, Security Operations professionals, and Identity teams a faster way to detect and respond to identity threats.
Security Center also allows companies to measure user experience impacts of Attack Protection features. Consumer-facing apps must balance security with user experience by minimizing friction while maintaining appropriate protection against identity attacks. Security Center shows app owners in near-real time UX effects of defense tactics, allowing them to adjust security and friction as appropriate to their situation. Companies can fine-tune their attack protection strategy by seeing in near real-time how defense tactics like MFA, rate limiting, and CAPTCHA affect their applications.
Security Center is available for all Enterprise customers.
Jameeka Aaron, Chief Information Security Officer, Customer Identity at Okta
Accurate detection alone doesn’t ensure threat response is appropriate to the level of risk, given other business objectives like customer acquisition, retention, and growth. As attacks against identity flows get more sophisticated and evolve to bypass detection, security teams often have to go through a learning curve on their own production environments, which can mean delayed detection of attacks and consequent business losses. Security Center leverages our focused expertise in identity security and packages it in a way that security operations professionals can understand and take action.
