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Sami Laine

Sami Laine
Director, Technology Strategy

Sami Laine is Director of Technology Strategy at Okta. For last couple of decades Sami has helped many of the world's largest enterprises, financial institutions and public sector organizations protect against fraud, malware, threats and data breaches and now at Okta helps companies embrace identity as the new security perimeter.

Sami Laine

WebAuthn In Enterprise Is Great and It Has Challenges

FIDO2 and WebAuthn hold great promise not only for consumers but for enterprise users as well. There are caveats however, and the challenges for IT departments are very different than for consumer websites. A FIDO2 Security Key What Is WebAuthn Again? WebAuthn—short for Web Authentication—promises to fix authentication on the web with a strong, simple, and un-phishable standard. A while back, I wrote an article that explains how WebAuthn works as a consumer authentication technology. It...

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What’s The Best Security Key to Buy?

There are dozens of security keys, authenticator apps, and password managers available. Which one should you use?
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SMS Two-Factor Authentication – Worse Than Just a Good Password?

If a website offers SMS-based authentication, should you enroll? Maybe not! In some cases, it’s worse than not having a second factor at all!
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