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Okta interviews

Containing access

“The unauthorized access to Okta’s customer support system leveraged a service account stored in the system itself.”

David BradburyChief Security Officer, Okta

Okta · 3 November 2023

A stored service account

Has the stolen access been stopped? Practise proving it.

Example

“Okta Security revokes the Okta session tokens embedded in the HAR files.”

David BradburyChief Security Officer, Okta

Okta · 3 November 2023

Revoke the embedded tokens

Has the stolen access been stopped? Practise proving it.

Example

Detection and its gaps

“For a period of 14 days, while actively investigating, Okta did not identify suspicious downloads in our logs.”

David BradburyChief Security Officer, Okta

Okta · 3 November 2023

Fourteen days unseen

Does this detector find enough attacks? Practise the evaluation.

Example

“If a user instead navigates directly to the Files tab in the customer support system, as the threat actor did in this attack, they will instead generate an entirely different log event with a different record ID.”

David BradburyChief Security Officer, Okta

Okta · 3 November 2023

A different log event

Does this detector find enough attacks? Practise the evaluation.

Example

“Okta Security identified a gap in the logs from the customer support system, missing the final hours that the threat actor had access.”

David BradburyChief Security Officer, Okta

Okta · 3 November 2023

A gap in the logs

Does this detector find enough attacks? Practise the evaluation.

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