Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Radio. News. Anyone can have an outage, but if you're providing cloud services for 30% of corporate America and beyond, it's a little concerning. What went through your head when you saw this this morning, Todd?
Well, I think about the world as layered into different critical services. Cloud infrastructure is one critical service. And as the lean, independent, neutral identity company, we're building this infrastructure. identity service for the entire world, whether that's enterprises, whether that's consumers, whether that's people building AI agents. We want to be that identity infrastructure.
It's important for cybersecurity. It's important for business continuity, and it has to be reliable.
So how do you make sure that it's reliable then?
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Chapter 2: What were the implications of the recent AWS outages?
Well, it's a different world view. I think companies try to consolidate around everything in cyber. We think that that's not the right approach. We think the right approach is to consolidate on identity. because it preserves the choice of other cyber tools for customers. They're not locked into one endpoint tool or one network security tool.
They can choose whatever is best for their business and will keep them more secure, especially as the threat environment is rapidly evolving. The ability to choose the best cyber tool and not be locked into a stack from one monolithic vendor is very powerful and it's resonating with our customers.
They cut costs and standardize their identity workflows and use cases around Okta and then choose everything else around the rest of cyber to best fit their needs.
All right. Well, thank you so much for coming in today, Todd. That is Todd McKinnon, CEO of Okta.
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Chapter 3: What strategies is Okta using to ensure reliable identity management?
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