Okta expands device assurance with Google Chrome integration

Cynthia Luu, Senior Product Marketing Manager blogged in part earlier on Tuesday: “When employees have the opportunity to work remotely or in a hybrid arrangement, they take it. As a result, endpoints such as laptops, phones, and other devices, can be located from anywhere in the world as potential points of enterprise vulnerability. ..Last year, Okta introduced device assurance policies that allow customers to check sets of security-related device attributes as part of authentication policies before that device can be used to access Okta-protected resources. This helps organizations establish minimum requirements for the devices that are used to access critical systems and applications, denying access if those requirements are not met. ..Today, Okta extends device assurance to integrate and support signals from Google Chrome. This means that customers can now create authentication policies that leverage device signals from either a managed Chrome browser or a managed ChromeOS device to gate access to a protected app.”