Whitepaper: Evolve your Authorization Strategy with Fine Grained Authorization

Use of SaaS applications is more widespread than ever — with consumers, employees and professionals of all types logging in and out of multiple apps daily to do everything from collaborating on a work project, to checking on test results after a doctor visit, to accessing mobile banking resources. Highly collaborative apps like Canva, Notion and Figma in particular have seen rapid rates of adoption, putting pressure on legacy SaaS providers to add more innovative features to their own offerings. But as SaaS applications grow increasingly sophisticated, collaborative, and feature-rich, authorization gets more complex. Traditional methods for securing and managing access to documents, files and other types of assets — first generation point solutions and in-application DIY coding — simply aren’t flexible or scalable enough. Today’s apps need more precise access control. This is why Okta is introducing Fine-Grained Authorization (FGA) — a new approach to managing access control that’s not only more secure, but also easier to implement and scale.