Okta may have found a better way to handle our online identities

Super clickbait title for yet another enterprise single-sign-on product.

I sure would like to dump all of my passwords. I had always been told that the biggest risk of having so many passwords is password reuse. ie If the password for an inconsequential service is stolen it can be used to access more important accounts.

In 2009 or so I had 4 I would use and I had two more that I used only for my Gmail and my bank.

Two or three years ago I got tired of it and now I use three, one for Gmail, one for the bank, and one for everything else. I know I'm probably not applying best practices, but I'm so tired of it.

For an article that mostly read as PR for Okta, I'm glad that they mentioned browser/OS keychains and OAuth.

If Mozilla Persona had a big push from a sales force behind it like it appears Okta has, I wonder if they couldn't have blown out this whole market a while ago.

I use Okta on a daily basis. I'm not a fan.

I still use a password and 2fa code on a daily basis. On pages where the appropriate fields don't capture the cursor by default, so my first attempt to enter either will fail, since I have to tab over to or click on the field first. Also, since you have to sign in daily, if you forget your phone (or it fails), you're locked out of everything until you sort it out.

There's also limited support for external applications, so it has to fall back to being a simplistic password manager if you access anything without Okta integration.

That said, our IT group loves it, since they can integrate all kinds of authentication and authorization into it, without having to manage it themselves.

I used Okta for a few days. Not a fan, especially after I had to reset my password on one of the sites I had in it, and there was no nice way to just set the new password in it. I'll take a normal password manager with browser plugins for as long as I'm stuck using passwords.