Anomalix was selected by a Large Energy company to provide a Workforce Identity solution that would protect and enable employees, contractors, and partners.
Anomalix helped the customer review the options, and chose the Okta Identity Cloud to provide the following services:
The customer has around 15,000 employees that access upwards of 15 mission critical applications both hosted on-premise and cloud based. End users would have to log into many of the applications by going to separate login portals and using different sets of credentials for each app. This puts a strain on the IT help desk due to the sheer number of password reset tickets that were generated on a daily basis due to users having to remember multiple sets of usernames/passwords for each app. With no real central authoritative source, provisioning of user access was manual, painfully slow, and prone to errors.
Also, there was no type of universally enforced Multi-Factor Authentication in place, which exposed them to the dangers of stolen credentials or weak passwords.
Anomalix worked with the Large Energy company to onboard their applications into Okta to enable SSO across the organization. Multiple Okta AD agents were installed and configured. An Okta IWA server was also setup which enabled Desktop SSO. This enables any domain user logged into an on-premise domain-joined computer with his or her credentials would be seamlessly logged into their assigned applications provisioned in Okta, thus eliminating the need for multiple credentials for end users. MFA was then activated for remote access users, using SMS and Okta verification. Universal Directory was also put in place and integrated with their existed AD Domain to serve as a central Identity source for all employees. A strong password policy was also put in place to further protect accounts from being compromised. The newly built Universal Directory enabled Lifecycle Management, greatly speeding up the provisioning process, while reducing errors through automation.
