Next-Gen Authorization for Everyone: Okta FGA Is GA
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This month we shine a light on fine-grained authorization (FGA), the game-changing offering that takes a page from the old Auth0 innovation playbook, to solve authorization for everyone. And that's a big deal!
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?? "Fine Grained Authorization (FGA) has the potential to solve access control for everyone, forever."
At Okta, in the first quarter of the new year, the Auth0 team gathers for its annual technology kickoff event: an in-house virtual conference that brings everyone in our product unit together. We explore the roadmap and key priorities for Auth0 in 2024, and get in-depth looks at new features and innovative offerings, along with panel discussions, demos, and motivational insights from the leadership team.
This year's kickoff occurred in early March, and coincided with the general availability (GA) of Okta's Fine Grained Authorization offering (FGA). I attended more than a dozen talks over two days, and was wowed by what I heard.? Among many memorable sessions, the FGA opportunity and the story of its emergence stuck in my mind. Today, the state of authorization software is where authentication was a decade ago, when Auth0 was first conceived as a universal login solution.?
?? "It's a big risk, but I think we should take it."
Principal Product Designer Matthew Pereira got me hooked on the FGA story, which began as an idea inspired by Google's Zanzibar project. The project was incubated in the Auth0 Lab, the company’s new initiatives and experimental development team, and was validated over the course of several months of research and iterative releases. Proofs of concept led first to the release of OpenFGA, the core server technology that powers Okta FGA. This open source project continues to thrive and grow globally as a collaboration under the stewardship of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).?
In 2023, early access customers stepped up to try out the nascent product, the team grew, and this month we announced Okta FGA as a standalone product that you can try for free and use in production. It’s available to new customers or for existing Auth0 and Okta customers, and anyone else looking for a flexible, scalable, relationship-based authorization solution.
?? "Infinite scale, ultra-low latency, 1M RPS - sounds like a SaaS bingo card.? But for FGA, it’s real and it’s here right now!"
FGA resources
Okta Fine Grained Authorization - learn about managed authorization-as-a-service and sign up for a free Auth0 account to try it yourself.
Fine Grained Authorization Playground - an interactive sandbox for exploring real world examples, designing your own authorization model, and sharing it with your team.
Fine Grained News - February 2024 - Monthly updates for the OpenFGA community, a summary of what the FGA team's been up to, as well as new concepts and capabilities the team is engineering for future releases.
OpenFGA GitHub repo - get started with OpenFGA, and leave us a star.?
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Want to learn more? We're offering a 30-minute webinar on March 27, "Introducing Okta Fine Grained Authorization." We'd love to see you there! Register now for one of three sessions with live demos: March 27 @ 10am PT, March 27 @ 10am GMT, and March 28 @ 12pm AEDT. Save your spot!
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8 个月Thanks for the shoutout!!