RECOVERY FOR OKTA

Okta Recovery: Disaster-Proof Your Identity Environment

Your identity system is the access key for your entire organization, and a primary target for bad actors. Whether it’s an outage, a migration, or an unexpected change, Semperis Recovery for Okta gets your business back online fast.

Protect identity access from failures and stay operational with fast Okta recovery

Defending your Okta environment from misconfigurations and bad actors requires a specialized toolkit. Losing Okta access, even for a short time, can devastate business operations.

Semperis Recovery for Okta provides rollback for individual aspects of your environment, letting you repair minor damage without having to halt operations. You can also automate rollback of the entire environment to a backup to get business operations up and running as soon as possible.

Okta users affected in 2023 Okta breach
average cost of a data breach
settlement Okta paid in aftermath of 2022 LAPSUS$ attack


Secure your Okta identity environment with Semperis

Take action to secure your Okta identity environment with Semperis Recovery for Okta, built by Semperis identity experts. You’ll improve recoverability and build a resilient backup plan that protects your identity environment when disaster strikes.

Flexible backups

When errors or minor misconfigurations are holding you back, use flexible backups to restore single attributes.

Change monitoring

Identify suspicious activity and quickly revert unwanted changes, down to the specific log, to avoid potential disaster.

Continuous backup

Review your recent backups and compare them to find the perfect solution to any issue.

See environment health at a glance

The environment overview in Recovery for Okta shows the overall system health, plus key stats on IDP status, current resilience score, change velocity, and current tenant connection status. Semperis Recovery for Okta enables full and incremental backups of IDP tenants, granular restores, and rapid recovery from corruption or attack, supporting both same-IDP and cross-IDP scenarios.

Monitor changes in your Okta environment

With Recovery for Okta, you can see when specific users made changes to track unwanted activity. Continuous logging, change visibility, and backup-to-backup validation help you detect and remediate unwanted changes.

As organizations increasingly embrace hybrid multi-cloud identity environments, the attack surface expands. Semperis Recovery for Okta ensures that our customers can defend against identity attacks regardless of which combination of cloud providers they choose.

Alex Weinert Chief Product Officer, Semperis

Recovery for Okta meets compliance requirements across multiple standards

Compliance mapping

Backed by decades of cybersecurity and compliance expertise, Semperis Recovery for Okta demonstrates compliance across multiple standards.

  • PCI DDS 4.0
  • SOC2
  • NIST
  • ISO 27000

Unmatched global Identity Forensics and Incident Response expertise

Our team has more experience in Okta security and recovery than any other cybersecurity team in the world.

90+ years
of identity-related incident response experience
170+ years
of Microsoft MVP experience
25+
former Microsoft Premier Field Engineers (PFEs) on staff
30+ years
experience in data analysis for insider threat and risk monitoring

Frequently asked questions about Okta backup and recovery

How often is Okta attacked?

Although there are no reliable published metrics on the frequency of attacks, Okta CISO Stephen McDermid said in Computer Weekly following high-profile attacks on Las Vegas casinos: “Okta being a market leader, we are always going to be under attack, we are always going to be a big target.” Okta paid a $60M settlement following the attack by ransomware gang LAPSUS$.  

As a cloud identity provider (IdP), does Okta offer backup and recovery?

For most IdPs, backup and restore functionality is not offered. When it is, only full backups are offered and handled by the IdP’s customer service team. You do not have the ability to test to ensure it works for you.

Can I build my own cloud identity backup and recovery system?

Building a solution yourself (DIY) requires coding to the IdP’s APIs, along with technical/developer expertise to implement, test, and maintain. In general, there is no existing documentation to help with a DIY solution.

What backup and recovery capabilities does Recovery for Okta provide?

Recovery for Okta accelerates backup and recovery for Okta in scenarios including operational errors and cyberattacks, ensuring business continuity regardless of the origin of the outage. For example, if a misconfiguration or unauthorized change suddenly locks out employees or customers, Recovery for Okta helps you quickly restore access to a known good configuration, accelerating return to normal business operations.

How does Recovery for Okta help address unwanted changes?

Recovery for Okta includes built-in change monitoring for Okta, including:

  • Identity and tenant monitoring for suspicious activity
  • Ability to avert changes down to the specific log
  • Insights to help you understand the full scope of a change, from originating actor to fallout and implications

Learn more about Semperis Recovery for Okta

Eliminate Okta security vulnerabilities with granular recovery from seasoned security experts with extensive cloud security and recovery experience.

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