Karl McGuinness

Karl McGuinness is Chief Product Architect at Okta where he is responsible for product strategy, architecture, and identity standards. He has over 20 years of experience in the identity industry building and scaling market leading products and infrastructure. Karl is actively involved with the identity community developing and adopting technical standards that provide the foundation for the Okta Identity Cloud.

Karl McGuinness

March 5, 2024

How to Secure the SaaS Apps of the Future

Over the past few years we’ve observed a fundamental shift in the threat model for highly targeted organizations. Today, if an attacker can’t manage to steal user credentials for highly targeted organizations, they will pivot to instead stealing a user’s proof of authentication. Attackers will use malware to steal session tokens from a user’s browser after they sign in. They may similarly use transparent proxies to steal session tokens from a user’s browser after they sign in. And as Okta’s...