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Microsoft and authentication services provider Okta said they are investigating claims of a potential breach alleged by the LAPSUS$ extortionist gang. The leaked 37GB archive shows that the group may have accessed the repositories related to Microsoft's Bing, Bing Maps, and Cortana, with the images highlighting Okta's Atlassian suite and in-house Slack channels.

Okta, a leading provider of authentication services and Identity and access management solutions says it is investigating claims of data breach.On Tuesday, data extortion group Lapsus$ posted screenshots in their Telegram channel of what it alleges to be Okta's customer data.

The UK's NHS Digital agency is warning organizations to apply new security updates for a remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows client for the Okta Advanced Server Access authentication management platform. "NHS Digital is the national digital, data and technology delivery partner for the NHS and social care system," explains the website for NHS Digital.

Okta welcomes Sagnik Nandy as President of Technology and CTO. Nandy will join Okta’s executive management team and report directly to Todd McKinnon, CEO and co-founder. As President and CTO,...

Identity-as-a-service slinger Okta has poached Google veep of engineering Sagnik Nandy to become its president and chief tech officer. Nandy will run his new employer's engineering and business technology functions, including the planning of product development activities.

Okta welcomes industry veteran John Zissimos as its first Chief Digital Officer. Zissimos will report to Kendall Collins, Chief Marketing Officer, and will be responsible for the holistic creative, campaign, digital, and brand strategy for the company.

Mosyle announced new integrations with Okta and Ping Identity for Mosyle Fuse and Mosyle Business customers. With this release, enterprises are now able to use Mosyle Auth 2 - the company's single sign-on solution purpose built for macOS - with Okta and Ping Identity for all company managed Mac devices.

Dodenhoff will be responsible for Okta's go-to-market strategy, operations, and sales revenue across the global partner ecosystem. "Steve has a strong track record building and scaling global enterprise software companies and solution providers. We're thrilled to have him at the helm of Okta's partner and alliances team, empowering our network of partners, and capturing new opportunities for growth."

Okta Privileged Access is a new product that unifies identity management with least privilege access controls for critical infrastructure to increase development speed, operational agility, and improve zero trust security in enterprise technology environments. To meet today's needs, modern enterprises require a real-time, zero trust security strategy anchored in identity and privileged access management spanning IT, security, and engineering teams.

Code42 announced it has integrated its Incydr data risk detection and response product with Okta Identity Cloud. The integration combines Code42's data-centric strategy to insider risk with Okta's leading approach to identity and access, and provides security buyers with an easier way to build data security environments rooted in Zero Trust.