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Midea Adopts Okta for Cloud Security Review
Midea, a consumer discretionary organization in China, uses Auth0 from Okta to support cloud security review for cloud security engineers.
Auth0 sits in the daily path at Midea, especially for cloud security engineers.
“In China, cloud security engineers already knew where cloud misconfigurations went wrong: too many copies, too little ownership, and a close process that waited on the loudest inbox.”
“Okta is an identity platform for workforce and customer authentication, single sign-on, and lifecycle management.”
Independent write-up. Figures come from public sources or are illustrative.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Risk and compliance | Cloud security engineers work from the same Auth0 record for cloud misconfigurations |
| Capability | Cloud misconfigurations can be reviewed without waiting on a personal export |
| Capability | Named workflow replaces ad hoc routing for cloud misconfigurations |
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Midea did not need another dashboard that nobody opened. It needed cloud security review to move. In China, cloud security engineers already knew where cloud misconfigurations went wrong: too many copies, too little ownership, and a close process that waited on the loudest inbox.
Auth0 from Okta is now in that path. Okta is an identity platform for workforce and customer authentication, single sign-on, and lifecycle management. The company treats it as production tooling for cloud security review, which is why cloud security engineers live in it rather than exporting from it once a quarter.
Midea can show how cloud misconfigurations is handled today. That is the value: a repeatable way to run cloud security review on software the rest of the industry already recognizes.