Identity security provider Okta is launching the general availability of Security Center, a new Attack Protection feature designed to help companies optimize their identity security posture by leveraging insights from Okta Customer Identity Cloud to provide a single view of authentication events, security incidents and threat response efficacy.
The San Francisco, Calif.-based cybersecurity firm says its new Security Center offering includes real-time data on an organization’s state of attack protection, out-of-the-box threat monitoring on major identity attack vectors, and application-level visibility into authentication traffic.
The Security Center is essentially designed to make assessing an organization’s identity security posture easier than what many companies experience, which includes parsing through logs, using third-party tools or building their own, all of which requires expert-level experience.
According to Okta, Security Center leverages the Okta Customer Identity Cloud security insights to give security and identity professionals a more streamlined way to detect and respond to identity threats as well as providing a more clear view of authentication events, incidents and threat response.
In addition to helping organizations respond to identity threats faster, Security Center can also help companies measure the user experience impacts of Attack Protection features, showing app owners in near-real time the user experience effects of defense tactics and allows then to adjust security and friction as appropriate to their situation, the company says.
In a statement, Jameeka Aaron, Okta’s Chief information security officer, says accurate detection alone isn’t enough to ensure that threat response is appropriate to the level of risk an organization faces.
“As attacks against identity flows get more sophisticated and evolve to bypass detection, security teams often have to go through a learning curve on their own production environments, which can mean delayed detection of attacks and consequent business losses,” Aaron says. “Security Center leverages our focused expertise in identity security, and packages it in a way that security operations professionals can understand and take action.”
