{"id":13833,"date":"2018-03-28T18:00:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T00:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jumpcloud.com\/?p=13833"},"modified":"2024-12-19T17:18:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T22:18:02","slug":"open-source-alternative-to-okta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/blog\/open-source-alternative-to-okta","title":{"rendered":"Open Source Alternative to Okta\u00ae"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Okta\u00ae<\/sup> is one of the top providers in the <\/span>web application SSO<\/span><\/a> (single sign-on) space. It\u2019s a space that has been incredibly important over the last decade, and perhaps, one of the hottest categories in the IT management world. With this much activity, admins often want to know what all of their options with SSO providers are. The challenge for some organizations, though, is finding an open source <\/span>alternative to Okta<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Why would an IT organization be interested in an open source web-app SSO solution? Well, to answer that question, we need to take a step back and look at the <\/span>identity and access management<\/span><\/a> (IAM) space as a whole.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Story Behind IAM and SSO<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n