OKTAOkta, Inc.

Okta verifies that whoever logged into a corporate system is who they claim to be.

A company uses dozens of cloud services, and keeping a separate password in each is neither safe nor convenient. A single sign-on point solves both: the employee authenticates once, while the security team grants and revokes access centrally. The product embeds itself in the foundation of corporate infrastructure and is hard to replace.

The second line is managing login for the customer's own users: registration and sign-in in their application. The risks are specific: the company sells security, so an incident in its own systems damages trust more than an outage at any other software vendor would. The second risk is the sign-in tooling built into cloud platforms. The company pays no dividend.