Okta sign-on policies

Learn how Okta sign-on policies change after the upgrade.

Change summary Okta sign-on policies are called global session policies.
Admin experience To configure global session policies, go to Security > Global Session Policy .

After you upgrade, the Global Session Policy retains two security settings from Classic Engine. These settings are critical to the security posture of the applications in your organization.

  • Establish the user session with is set to A password. This maintains Classic Engine security settings that required a password or an external Identity Provider, such as Google or Facebook.

  • Multifactor authentication (MFA) is is set to Required. This ensures that a secondary factor remains required in Identity Engine.

The Multifactor authentication (MFA) is field has a new policy setting called Any factor used to meet the Authentication Policy requirements. Selecting this lets you create a passwordless experience.

User experience Changes to the user experience depend on the policy settings you configure.
Related topics Global session policies

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