Okta integrations add native identity management to Palo Alto products

Okta’s Workforce Identity product is being integrated with Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma Access Browser to restrict access to single sign-on (SSO) applications through a conditional access method.

This will allow employees to maintain security while accessing applications and data from any device.

Palo Alto’s Cortex SecOps platforms, including CortextSIAM and CortexXDR, will also integrate Okta’s Identity Threat Protection to provide full visibility of identity-related risks, allowing for additional authentication requests for risky access and user activity and triggering automatic responses to threats, such as revoking access, ending sessions and quarantining endpoints.

Okta technology partnerships vice president Stephen Lee said the integrations serve to prevent siloing of tools.

“AI is supercharging attacks on user credentials, requiring a ‘fight AI with AI’ approach that brings identity directly into an organisation’s security infrastructure for a real-time and unified response,” he said.

Palo Alto’s technical partnerships vice president Pam Cyr added that identity plays a critical role in cybersecurity.

“Our deep integrations with Okta ensure that our solutions are engineered to work together, making it easier for our customers to achieve higher levels of security and user experience,” she said.