Okta Workforce Identity has become the front door to the enterprise. It sits in the critical path for modern identity and access management, through which employees access business applications. Any outage, whether caused by human error or a cyber attack, means your employees can’t access their business applications and data. Such an outage effectively closes down your business.
But with Rubrik Identity Recovery for Okta, you can now ensure that your identity configuration and data are protected, recoverable, and secure. Announced at Oktane 2025, the product is now generally available and ready to safeguard your business from human error, misconfiguration, and malicious attacks.
The Identity Blind Spot: Why Okta Needs Dedicated Recovery
Misconfigurations, over-permissioned admins, and attacker-driven sabotage are now some of the fastest growing causes of identity outages. But when Okta fails, business operations stop. Employees cannot log in. Critical applications are effectively unavailable. Revenue is lost until access is restored. Incident responders lose access to security tools. And regulators start asking hard questions
That’s because Okta provides secure authentication and authorization for millions of users in tens of thousands of organizations. Companies have learned the hard way that while Okta ensures uptime of the service, customers are responsible for the state of their tenant. That means you must close the gap, securing policies, groups, application assignments, authentication flows and everything that determines who gets access to your systems.
Here are the key recovery gaps we heard from customers:
No Granular Rollback: If an administrator deletes a crucial policy or group, whether maliciously or accidentally, the only native option is a tedious, manual rebuild.
Short Native Retention Windows: Okta’s built-in 30-day retention might work for accidental deletions, but not for long-running attacks, hidden policy drift, forensic investigation, or compliance requirements like SOC 2 or GDPR.
Misconfigurations and Sabotage: Any changes made to the tenant can be difficult to roll back. If a compromised super-admin can maliciously alter configurations, you may be stuck with changes that are difficult to reverse quickly.
IaC and Scripting Aren’t Recovery: Some organizations turn to Terraform, scripts, or exports to help with provisioning. But this is not rollback; they don’t capture dependencies, object relationships or incremental state changes. And they often cause drift over time.
Identity is no longer just a security concern. It’s a business continuity concern. That’s why dedicated recovery matters.
Introducing Identity Recovery for Okta
Rubrik Identity Recovery for Okta addresses a common and concerning customer pain point: the need for a reliable, non-disruptive recovery from human error and misconfiguration.
The first release delivers recoverability with a simple, secure solution, with features including:
Automated and On-Demand Backup: Continuous protection of all critical Okta objects, including Users, Groups, Applications, and Policies. Our Adaptive Throttling automatically adjusts backup throughput to stay within Okta’s API rate limits.
Immutable, Isolated Storage: All backups are stored in secure, air-gapped, and immutable Rubrik-hosted storage. Your backups cannot be altered, deleted, or encrypted by malicious actors.
Granular In-Place Recovery: Restore single corrupted or deleted objects directly back into your live Okta tenant with minimal disruption.
Dependency-Aware Orchestration: Our platform understands the complex relationships between Okta objects. This ensures users, groups, policies, and applications are restored in the correct order for a functional, consistent recovery.
Why Rubrik?
Identity needs true resilience, not just backups. While competitors offer partial solutions, Rubrik delivers true enterprise-grade identity resilience, with a focus on three key differentiators:
Differentiator | Rubrik Okta Recovery | Inferior Approaches (Native Tools, Competitors) |
|---|---|---|
Security & Immutability | ✅ Native immutable, air-gapped, multi-region storage | ❌ Relies on customer infrastructure, often lacks true immutability |
Recovery Orchestration | ✅ Dependency-aware orchestration ensures objects restore in the correct order | ❌ Limited or no dependency mapping; risk of broken restores |
Unified Platform | ✅ Unified Identity Recovery across AD, Entra ID, and Okta | ❌ Point solutions often tied to a single provider |
How Do I Get Started?
Once Identity Recovery for Okta is enabled on your Rubrik Security Cloud tenant, it’s as simple as setting up the Rubrik Security Cloud application from the Okta app catalog. This automatically generates credentials with the minimum required privileges for the protection and recovery of the relevant objects. Take these credentials and plug them into the onboarding wizard in Rubrik Security Cloud. A few minutes later, you’re all onboarded, and ready to go!
What Does “Relationship-Aware” Mean?
The ability to recover objects from backups back into your Okta tenant is clearly important. But with cloud-based IdPs like Okta, the relationships and dependencies are also crucial.
For example: if you need to recover a specific user back from a snapshot, you likely also need to make sure that the recovered object is added to the same groups that it was previously a member of, has the same policies applied, and has access to the same applications (or at the very least, the option to recover some of them during the recovery process).
Without relationship-aware recovery, authentication policies might not be applied, leaving an object missing critical MFA requirements, and at risk of compromise.
Thankfully, Identity Recovery for Okta has you covered. Dependencies are mapped, and deleted dependent objects, like groups, can be easily recreated in a single flow as required. Obviously, you can also just recover the objects, if that’s what you need. It's a matter of having the right tool for the right job.
What’s Next?
Okta has become the operational heart of authentication. But without dedicated recovery, organizations are left hoping their tenant configuration never breaks or that attackers never target it.
Identity Recovery for Okta gives organizations the resilience they’ve never had: the ability to undo, restore, and recover identity state with confidence.
Talk to your Rubrik representative today to learn more about Rubrik Okta Recovery and how you can achieve recoverability for your most critical identity provider.