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Making Collaboration Easierand Enhancing Security

For industries of all types and sizes, collaboration is more important than ever. Onsite andremote employees, partners, and contractors need to come together to get things done.
Okta, the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise, now integrates withSlack, the collaboration hub for the modern workplace, to plug people in, creating a space
where they can share, archive and search for key documents and conversations all in one
place that’s enhanced by the security of identity management. Now your teams can better
leverage their collective expertise and keep their work moving forward.
Companies across industries like healthcare, financial services, insurance, and aerospace anddefense are using Okta integrated with Slack to collaborate securely and efficiently, with peaceof mind that the right users are granted permission to the right channels and conversations.

How Okta + Slack Work Together
Okta manages and controls access to Slack by using
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) to
enable single sign-on (SSO) and System for CrossDomain Identity Management (SCIM) to automate theprovisioning and deprovisioning of users.
SCIM provides the ability for your company to dictate
who gets access to Slack in a programmatic way whenleveraging Okta. Whether your source of truth is Active
Directory, LDAP, or HRaaM, Okta provides a seamlessintegration into Slack, creating accounts for youremployees with a click of a button, while also providing
the ability to import enriched profile data. Customers
have found that using SAML/SCIM with their enterpriseapps can increase user productivity, and decrease IT
time on certain admin requests by 50%.

Slack Enterprise Grid is made up of multiple, secure andconnected workspaces that mirror the way yourorganization already works while offering centralized
controls that give administrators a single point ofvisibility to manage Slack. It connects employees tothe right information across your entire organization.
And because it’s built with security at it’s core, Grid’s
FINRA and HIPAA offerings allow customers to satisfy
regulatory requirements, it supports integrations witheDiscovery, data loss prevention (DLP), enterprise mobility
management (EMM), offsite backup providers and has
global compliance certifications.

Okta + Slack: Making Collaboration Easier and Enhancing Security

Building Better Collaboration
Together, Okta and Slack deliver:• Best-in-class collaboration—Create the foundation
for teamwork with shared, searchable workspacesthat organize conversations and make them accessible
to everyone who needs to be involved.
• Streamlined access—Give employees access to all
their Slack workspaces via single sign-on, and help
eliminate endless password reset fiascos.
• Enhanced data access—Automated provisioning
and deprovisioning of users ensures that sensitive
information is accessible only to those who need it,
and have approval to use it.
• Easier IT management—Seamlessly provision users on
the fly with JIT and automatically provision users intoworkspaces and channels based on Okta user groups.

Over 800 organizations, including 21st Century Fox, Teachfor America, CBS, and Workday use Okta integrated with
Slack for collaboration secured by identity management.

“Slack has been virally adopted, across ourcompany, organizations, and teams. With over
155 workspaces and 34k members, the Okta +Slack integration has made it easier to manage
Slack users at scale across all of 21st CenturyFox, so our teams can collaborate more
efficiently and effectively.”—Christian Sosa, Associate Director of Cloudand SaaS, 21st Century Fox• Robust profile data—Enhanced Slack user profile,pulling the office location, or time zone, or manager
from Okta so it’s more easily accessible to employees.
Streamline your work, automate mundane tasks, andbring context into your conversations securely withOkta and Slack.

For more information on this integration,
go to okta.com/partners/slack.
If you have more questions, please contact
our sales team at okta.com/contact-sales.

About Okta
Okta is the foundation for secure connections between people and technology. By harnessing the power of the cloud, Okta allows people
to access applications on any device, at any time, while still enforcing strong security protections. It integrates directly with an organization’s
existing directories and identity systems, as well as 5,000+ applications.

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