Okta Policies

The main goal of Okta policies are managing and controling access to applications, APIs, and other relevant resources. Therefore, policies enable administrators to define conditions and authentication requirements for users, which ensures secure and efficient access management.

We evaluate Policies whenever a user or application makes a request. Policies consist of objects and rules that determine whether access will be granted or denied. Policies can be customized to meet specific organizational needs. They are always assigned to groups and not directly to individual users. The individual users are then affected by the policies of the group to which they belong.

Global Session policy deals mainly with Okta and regulates sessional length of users and apps. Authentication policies are active for users verification when trying to access various applications in the organizations' okta console