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OKTA RESILIENCE

Get Back to Business with Okta Resilience

Identity is the first thing attackers target and the last thing you can afford to lose. Rubrik Okta Resilience gives you a clear path back: a protected Okta tenant, deep visibility, precise undo, and recovery that keeps Okta and Active Directory (AD) in lockstep.

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What's New with Rubrik Identity Resilience
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Protecting Okta: The Gaps
Okta is the front door to your workforce. Is it protected?
Okta provides service availability, but protecting the configuration and identity data inside your tenant is your responsibility. Without dedicated protection, you face critical risks.
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Vulnerability to Tampering

Backups, stored on-platform with no airgap, are vulnerable. Okta offers limited retention and can’t easily reverse unwanted changes. This complicates forensics, hurts compliance, and extends recovery.

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Blind Restores & Silent Failures

Okta is a complex web of interconnected objects with no native dependency mapping. Restoring objects in the wrong order means operational failure and broken access, keeping the business offline.

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The AD Dependency Threat

Restoring Okta against a compromised or out-of-sync AD can bring the attacker back and break provisioning automation.

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Protect & Recover Identities, Groups, Apps, and their Relationships. Keep Okta Operational.
A trusted copy. Deep protection. Precise rollback. All with the backing of a fully synced AD.
Immutable Backups
Keep a Clean, Tamper-resistant Copy Outside the Blast Radius.
Backups live in a Rubrik-managed, logically air-gapped vault with no infrastructure for you to run. Set continuous SLA-based protection or capture on-demand snapshots. A compromised tenant or stolen admin credentials can’t alter the recovery point.
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Deep Visibility + Risk Remediation
Stop Flying Blind. See the Risk.
Get visibility into the full inventory of Okta users, groups, and relationships. Active alerts and violations are surfaced on the Identity 360 view. Detect misconfigurations, discover stale accounts, and manage privilege sprawl across your Okta tenant. Get the intel you need to detect and remediate risk.
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Activity Log
A System of Record Attackers Can’t Touch.
Overcome native log retention limits. Track who changed what and when with a tamper-resistant record. Rubrik automatically ingests Okta audit and sign-in events into an activity log so you can map the blast radius and revert unwanted changes in one place. Retain identity data without punitive storage charges.
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Dependency-Aware Okta Recovery
Restore Object Relationships. Recover Okta backed by a synced AD.
Revert only the target actions directly from the activity log and preserve everything else. Rubrik’s dependency-aware recovery restores Okta users, groups, and policies with their relationships intact. In a worst-case scenario, safely perform a cross-tenant recovery into a clean environment, backed by a fully synced AD to keep attackers out and the business running.
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Okta Resilience Capabilities
Secure identity systems and protect access with Rubrik Okta Resilience. Keep Okta operational and recover cleanly.
Resilience Starts with Logically Air-gapped Backups

Integrate and validate your tenant through the Okta Integration Network (OIN) with OAuth2 and no backup infrastructure to deploy or manage.

  • Our OIN-verified application facilitates a rapid, user-friendly setup
  • Immutable, airgapped backups sit in a Rubrik-managed vault outside your tenant, so a compromised admin cannot delete or alter them
  • Protect users, groups, group rules, applications, authentication, MFA policies, and authorization servers with SLA-driven or on-demand snapshots
Comprehensive Okta Protection

Get deep visibility of Okta users, groups, and relationships. Protect critical objects, configurations, and workflows so that you don’t have to rebuild by hand.

  • Protect lifecycle management configurations: provisioning settings, push groups, profile mappings, group rules, event and inline hooks
  • Keep identity automation running. Protect Okta SSO (Single Sign-On), LCM (Lifecycle Management), and JML (Joiner-Mover-Leaver) workflows
  • Recover Okta identities and configurations into a new clean tenant, simplifying incident response or safely testing changes
See What Went Wrong. Keep Auditors Happy.

Record changes as they happen. Okta audit and sign-in logs flow into an immutable activity log, where you can watch high-impact events such as admin role grants, MFA policy edits, questionable permission grants, and group membership shifts.

  • Get a tamper-resistant record of who changed what and who signed in from where
  • One-click revert of unwanted changes directly from the activity log
  • Intelligent API throttling adapts to Okta rate limits during bulk backup and restore
Evict Attackers. Recover AD & Okta as One.

Identities flow from Active Directory into Okta, and Rubrik allows you to recover them together. If the full tenant is compromised, restore identities, groups, and admin roles into a separate tenant altogether.

  • Recover Okta with the foundation of a verified clean AD, so identity data stays in sync
  • Quickly stand up a minimum viable tenant and recover identities, group memberships, and other objects during a full compromise
  • Surgically revert select changes or recover your whole tenant
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3 IdPs. 1 Platform.
Reduce tool sprawl and ensure consistent, predictable, orchestrated recovery across identity systems, even when dependencies span cloud, SaaS and on-prem environments. Protect critical data across Okta, AD, and Entra ID in a single platform. Enjoy fast, accurate recovery from human error, misconfiguration, and malicious changes.
Continuity Across Hybrid Environments

Prevent a failure or misconfiguration from disrupting your entire business. Rubrik helps ensure uninterrupted operations across Okta and AD, so identities, access, and applications stay online.

Dependency-Aware Okta Recovery

Reduce the risks of broken links and manual troubleshooting. Rubrik’s unified recovery workflows automatically account for the complex interdependencies between identity systems, orchestrating restoration in the correct order every time.

Effortless Control from a Unified Console

Simplify management and accelerate incident response. Protect your critical identities, from Okta configurations and workflows to AD and Entra ID objects, in a single, intuitive console designed for complex environments.

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Rubrik Identity Recovery for Okta
Achieve immutable, air-gapped protection and granular, dependency-aware restoration for all critical Okta resources. Plus, discover the power of unified protection across your multi-IDP environment.
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Unified Okta and Active Directory Recovery with Rubrik
Restoring Okta in isolation isn't enough. Learn how Rubrik is deepening Okta and Active Directory protection to safeguard complex Okta configurations.
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Okta Recovery to Unify Identity Protection across IdPs for Comprehensive Cyber Resilience
Rubrik announced Okta Recovery, a solution that restores Okta environments for the workforce. Rubrik's solution provides immutable backups and granular recovery for critical Okta objects and metadata, helping organizations to recover from disruptions.
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Everything you need to know
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What is Okta Resilience?
Okta Resilience is Rubrik's capability to protect an Okta tenant before, during, and after an incident. Rubrik’s Okta Resilience solution protects critical Okta objects, workflows, and configurations. It also offers an activity log with one-click revert of selected actions and full cross-tenant recovery for worst-case scenarios in which the Okta tenant is unusable. Dependency-aware restore ensures that objects are restored in the right order to avoid broken links and manual rebuilds so that your business comes back online fast.
Does Okta have a native backup and recovery solution?
Yes, but native backups live inside the Okta tenant, placing them in the blast radius of a cyberattack. Rubrik secures your identity data with immutable, physically and logically air-gapped backups that attackers can’t touch. Okta doesn’t provide AD and Entra ID backups, but Rubrik unifies AD, Entra ID, and Okta protection in a single platform, helping reduce tool sprawl and TCO.
How do I recover a deleted Okta user or group?
Open the snapshot in Rubrik, select the user or group, and review the related objects Rubrik discovers. Choose restore and recreate, restore and re-link, or restore only, preview the changes, and run it. Memberships, roles, and application assignments are re-linked, so you do not rebuild them by hand. Recovered objects receive new Okta object IDs.
Which Okta objects does Rubrik back up?
Users, groups, group rules, applications, and policies (global session, authentication, password, MFA enrollment, user profile enrollment, IdP discovery, entity risk, and post-authentication sessions). Rubrik protects Okta SSO, LCM, and JML workflows.
Why recover Okta together with Active Directory?
Most enterprises source identities from AD and sync them into Okta, often after importing them from an HR system. Restoring Okta against a compromised or out-of-sync AD can bring back attacker persistence and break provisioning automation. Recover AD and Okta from a single platform, reducing TCO and tool sprawl.
How does Rubrik handle Okta API rate limits during a mass restore?
Rubrik backs off automatically when Okta returns a rate-limit response. It reads Okta’s reset time and pauses all requests for that connection until it passes, with jitter. It retries failed calls up to five times with exponential backoff, for up to five minutes per call. To avoid triggering limits, backup caps the API calls per batch and the number of parallel workers for each endpoint, and checkpoints its pagination cursor so a long job resumes where it stopped. Restore skips writes for objects that haven’t changed since the snapshot and reuses lookups, which cuts API usage on large tenants.
Are Okta backups safe if my tenant or admin credentials are compromised?
Yes. Rubrik stores Okta backups in a logically air-gapped, immutable, Rubrik-managed vault outside your tenant. A compromised tenant or stolen admin credentials cannot modify the recovery point, so a clean recovery point stays available.

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