Outcome
Gain confidence
100% practical, built on real project scenarios — you'll onboard SAML and OAuth apps and architect solutions from business requirements.
Okta · Corporate & Team Training
Make your team Okta-fluent
Private cohorts and tailored workshops that get your team confident on Okta — architecture, SSO, OAuth, MFA, and workflows — 100% practical, delivered by working consultants.
What will you be able to do?
Skills that put youahead of the curve
Identity is the basic pillar of every cybersecurity solution — and per Gartner, Okta is the market leader in access management.
Method
Crystal-clear concepts
Real-time use cases and hands-on activity — no PPT classes. Also preps you for the Okta Professional and Administrator certifications.
Market
Stay ahead of the curve
Companies are investing heavily in identity — and Okta leads Gartner's access-management rankings. Learning it is an edge.
What will you learn?
From architectureto workflows
Okta architecture, managing people, external directories with AD and LDAP, JIT provisioning, desktop SSO, SAML, ServiceNow and Salesforce integration, OAuth and OpenID Connect, the policy framework with MFA, and access-request workflows.
- 100% practical — every topic lands in your own Okta instance, not a slide.
- Certification-ready — covers what the Okta Professional and Administrator exams expect.
- Deep on standards — SAML traced message by message, OAuth flow by flow.
What training looks like
Preview
Watch sample classesOkta overview & OAuth intro — free on our YouTube
- 10 modules — Okta overview to UI customization
- Real integrations — ServiceNow and Salesforce, both flows
- 2 certifications — Professional & Administrator prep
Step-by-step curriculum
10 modules,zero guesswork
Here's what you'll learn, step by step — every module hands-on in your own Okta instance.
- What is IDaaS
- Okta overview and architecture
- Setting up your Okta instance
- Types of people in Okta
- Creating Okta-mastered users — and users in bulk
- The various administrator roles
- LDAP basics; AD and OUD installation; AD agent installation and tuning
- Attribute mapping and JIT provisioning
- Delegated authentication, SSO, and desktop single sign-on
- Importing users from AD; LDAP agent installation
- Okta Universal Directory and group management
- Okta Expression Language
- Profile editor and attribute-level mastering
- SAML concepts and how SAML works
- SP- and IdP-initiated flows
- Tracing SAML messages
- Force authentication and single logout
- Creating a ServiceNow instance and defining the app in Okta
- Configuring IdP-initiated and SP-initiated flows
- Tracing communication with SAML Tracer; testing the configuration
- Single logout in practice; creating a Salesforce instance
- IdP- and SP-initiated flows with a custom Salesforce domain
- Managing the user lifecycle for Salesforce; assignment rules
- Why OAuth exists; flows, terminology, and implementation
- Google as authorization server; exchanging codes for tokens
- Authorization-code flow with PKCE; JWT validation
- OpenID Connect demonstrated end to end — including Okta-backed OIDC and OAuth for mobile
- The Okta policy framework
- Password, sign-on, and application sign-on policies
- Network zones
- Configuring multifactor authentication
- Enabling and configuring self-service
- The app approval workflow
- Branding the Okta user interface
Train your team
Two ways to buildteam capability
Hands-on, scenario-based training delivered privately for your team and mapped to your environment.
Private cohort
Live private cohort
Instructor-led sessions for your team, scheduled around your delivery timeline.
- Live, interactive classes with real-time doubt-clearing
- Guided labs across the full curriculum
- Progress visibility for team leads
Tailored workshop
Tailored corporate workshop
Curriculum mapped to your stack, your use cases, and your team's current level.
- Scoped to your platforms and real scenarios
- Onsite or live online
- Outcomes aligned to your IAM roadmap
Training as an individual?
Self-paced and instructor-led courses for individuals live on IdentityClasses — our individual-training brand, now part of SimplifyAuth.
Meet your instructor
Learn from aworking consultant
Amit Kumar Gupta is an identity and access management expert with 15+ years of industry experience — and he simply loves to teach. Through Identity Classes, now part of SimplifyAuth, he has trained 4,000+ professionals across the globe.
- 15+ years in IAM — hands-on architecture, deployment, and integration across global enterprises.
- 4,000+ professionals trained — through Identity Classes, now part of SimplifyAuth, with alumni in IAM roles worldwide.
- Multi-platform depth — Oracle Identity Manager, SailPoint IIQ & IdentityNow, Saviynt, Okta, CyberArk, and OUD.
- Practitioner first — every lesson is drawn from live consulting engagements, not theory.
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15+ years
4,000+ trained
Rated 5 out of 5
What professionals sayabout this training
Real, verified reviews from students trained through Identity Classes — now part of SimplifyAuth.
5.0 · 18 verified reviews ↗"Without any hesitation, Amit is the best trainer available in the IAM space. I've attended OIM, Okta and Saviynt training — his understanding is excellent and his teaching makes everything easy to follow. Highly recommend to start or advance your IAM career."
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Ved PrakashOkta · OIM · Saviynt · Verified review
"Thank you Amit for the informative course — great presentation style with excellent content and clear instructions. A wonderful and highly skilled instructor!"
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Girish TIAM training · Verified review
"I had no experience in IAM technologies, but the way Amit explains everything with practical implementation is so impressive. Totally recommending Identity Classes for IAM."
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