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Okta vs Zscaler
March 19, 2025 | Author: Michael Stromann
32★
Support enterprise-wide identity management across any app, user or device with Okta - a future-proof cloud service designed for maximum ROI & ease of use. A secure, reliable cloud service for today’s hybrid IT reality. Comprehensive Identity Management that has no alternatives. Across All Apps, Users and Devices. Easy-to-use, Superior ROI. Integrated, Future Proof
20★
Zscaler is working to make the internet safe for business. Go beyond basic internet security with our 100% cloud solution. Zero hardware and zero backhauling.
In the vast and bewildering cosmos of cybersecurity, there exist two formidable entities: Okta and Zscaler. Both, in their own peculiar ways, are obsessed with security, identity and access, which is a bit like being obsessed with making sure your front door is locked while living in an interdimensional spaceship. They both promise a zero-trust utopia, where nothing and no one is inherently trustworthy—a philosophy that, coincidentally, also applies to intergalactic hitchhikers and used starship salesmen. They integrate with everything, offer single sign-on magic and ensure that even the sneakiest cyber-villains get stuck in bureaucratic authentication limbo.
Okta, born in 2009 in the United States, concerns itself primarily with the highly philosophical question: "Who are you and should you be here?" It manages identities, authenticates users and generally fusses over whether a person should be allowed into digital realms. It is particularly useful for companies who care deeply about workforce access, customer logins and ensuring that nobody accidentally wanders into their classified data vault wearing a fake mustache. With lifecycle management and API access control, it is essentially the bouncer of the internet, but with more cloud computing and fewer sunglasses.
Zscaler, which emerged in 2007 (also in the United States, because apparently, that’s where all cybersecurity solutions are born), is much more interested in the movement of data rather than the people accessing it. It functions like an omnipresent cloud security fortress, scrutinizing every bit and byte that dares to pass through corporate networks. Its world revolves around Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Secure Web Gateway (SWG) and an insatiable appetite for filtering, inspecting and encrypting internet traffic. If Okta is the ID-checking doorman, Zscaler is the overzealous security scanner that insists on x-raying your lunch.
See also: Top 10 Cloud Security Software
Okta, born in 2009 in the United States, concerns itself primarily with the highly philosophical question: "Who are you and should you be here?" It manages identities, authenticates users and generally fusses over whether a person should be allowed into digital realms. It is particularly useful for companies who care deeply about workforce access, customer logins and ensuring that nobody accidentally wanders into their classified data vault wearing a fake mustache. With lifecycle management and API access control, it is essentially the bouncer of the internet, but with more cloud computing and fewer sunglasses.
Zscaler, which emerged in 2007 (also in the United States, because apparently, that’s where all cybersecurity solutions are born), is much more interested in the movement of data rather than the people accessing it. It functions like an omnipresent cloud security fortress, scrutinizing every bit and byte that dares to pass through corporate networks. Its world revolves around Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Secure Web Gateway (SWG) and an insatiable appetite for filtering, inspecting and encrypting internet traffic. If Okta is the ID-checking doorman, Zscaler is the overzealous security scanner that insists on x-raying your lunch.
See also: Top 10 Cloud Security Software
