Okta to buy Auth0 for $8.3 billion – Cloud – Security

Okta will obtain fellow identification supplier Auth0 in an all-stock transaction worthy of approximately US$six.five billion (A$eight.3 billion).

Below the arrangement, Auth0 “will work as an impartial organization unit inside of of Okta, and each platforms will be supported, invested in, and built-in over time”, the providers mentioned.

“As a result, organisations will have better decision in deciding upon the identification remedy for their exceptional requirements,” Okta mentioned.

The boards of administrators of Okta and Auth0 “have just about every permitted the transaction”.

It is expected to near all through Okta’s second quarter of fiscal yr 2022, the quarter ending July 31, 2021.

Id providers are critical to organisations that are transferring into mostly cloud-centered, on the internet environments, and as a result need to authenticate big quantities of team or prospects to present accessibility.

Okta and Auth0 mentioned they meant to jointly “address a wide established of identification use cases”.

“The acquisition will speed up the companies’ shared vision of enabling absolutely everyone to safely and securely use any technological know-how, shaping the potential of identification on the online,” they mentioned.