Okta is a cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) platform providing single sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication, and lifecycle management for users across an organization’s applications. As a central identity provider, its logs are a key source for detecting credential-based attacks and unauthorized access.
How it works
Dual path: direct API (okta_direct) for native pull, plus an indirect via-SIEM path (okta plugin) when logs are routed through Sumo Logic or Splunk.
Data ingested
System logs, risky authentications, policy change events
Frequently asked questions
Linking Expel with Okta gives you continuous evaluation of identity events without adding staff to watch login activity around the clock. Expel’s detection engine reviews suspicious logins, MFA changes, and privilege escalation from Okta logs, including a named detection for Okta cross-tenant impersonation. Confirmed credential compromise triggers auto-remediation without waiting on manual response.
Expel’s Okta integration uses a direct API connection to evaluate suspicious logins, MFA changes, and privilege escalation events in real time. Expel built a specific detection for Okta cross-tenant impersonation to catch that attack pattern. When Expel confirms a compromised Okta account, auto-remediation responds to contain it without waiting on manual analyst action.
Okta’s native alerting flags identity events but leaves investigation and response to your team. Expel’s direct API integration evaluates suspicious logins, MFA changes, and privilege escalation, applying a named Okta cross-tenant impersonation detection built for that specific attack pattern. Confirmed credential compromise triggers auto-remediation instead of sitting in a queue.
Yes, Expel built a named detection specifically for Okta cross-tenant impersonation to catch that attack pattern. Expel’s detection engine also evaluates suspicious logins, MFA changes, and privilege escalation events pulled directly from Okta through Expel’s API integration. Confirmed credential compromise cases trigger auto-remediation without waiting on manual analyst response.
The Okta cross-tenant impersonation detection Expel built is a highlight of its live Okta demo, requestable at expel.com/request-demo. The session also shows how Expel’s detection engine evaluates suspicious logins and MFA changes, and how auto-remediation responds to confirmed credential compromise cases.