Define your Okta standard once. Deploy it to every client in minutes.
Your senior engineers configure Okta baseline security the same way every time: the same groups, authenticators, policies, and access rules. Before ZeroConfig, that meant working through the same manual checklist for two to three hours per new client org. ZeroConfig lets you encode that baseline in a reusable template and apply it to any number of clients in a single run. Hours of repetitive manual configuration condensed to about 15 minutes.
What manual Okta configuration costs you
Standing up a new client's Okta org manually starts with a senior engineer working through the same checklist every time: groups, authenticators, policies, access rules, and security settings. A careful buildout to establish a common baseline takes two to three hours.
Multiply that across five new clients in a quarter and it's 10 to 15 hours of senior engineering time on repetitive, error-prone manual work. Tiny variations in group names and policy settings mean your automations break downstream.
Okta doesn’t natively provide a way to templatize and push configurations across multiple orgs. That’s exactly what ZeroConfig was built to do.
One template. Every tenant. Your standard.
ZeroConfig lets you define your Okta security baseline as a reusable template: groups, network zones, security settings, authenticators, policies, and more. Spin up a new client org in ZeroTek, then apply your template in one click. The tenant is secured to your standard in minutes.
As one MSP engineer put it: "It really only leaves a few truly client-specific steps as manual work."
ZeroConfig templates are yours to build, customize, or iterate to reflect your best practices for specific client types or verticals (M365 clients, Google Workspace clients, regulated industries). Of course, deploying standard configurations means your downstream automations, reporting, and cross-tenant operations can work consistently across your entire client base.
Three ways to use ZeroConfig
Here's how our partners are using ZeroConfig to streamline their operations and improve standards across their client base.
Apply: Stand up new tenants to your standard
You've won a new client. Create their Okta tenant through ZeroTek's self-service provisioning, select your ZeroConfig template, and apply. Groups, authenticators, policies, network zones, all configured in minutes. Your engineer picks up where ZeroConfig leaves off and completes the client-specific work that requires human judgment. A full custom-branded deployment that used to take two to three hours is done in less than an hour.
Report: See where any tenant has drifted from the desired state
Configuration drift is normal—but you can’t determine its impact if you don’t know when it happens. If you aren’t regularly checking for drift, client configurations can slowly lose the consistency that makes your automations work and your security posture defensible. ZeroConfig offers both automated and manual drift checks to show you—in seconds—exactly where any org’s current configuration deviates from its applied template.
Report and Modify: Fix drift and document what changed
With drift identified, you can restore the settings from the template in seconds if the changes aren’t justifiable—or version the template if they are. ZeroConfig reports exactly what changed, giving you a clear before-and-after record. That record is useful for three audiences: your team (so they know what was remediated), your client (so they can see what was out of spec), and auditors (so they have evidence of consistent enforcement and timely remediation).
Consistency is an operational advantage
When every tenant has essential configurations in common, the downstream effects compound. Your automations work across clients because the target groups have the same names and settings everywhere. Reporting is coherent across tenants. Your entire tech team works more efficiently because they know they'll find the same core settings in every client environment.
This also changes how you onboard new staff. A new engineer learns the foundation once and knows they'll find it everywhere. With an established level of core consistency, everything works more predictably, troubleshooting is more efficient, and your team spends more time on work that moves the business forward.
Drift detection that doubles as compliance proof
The hardest part of compliance isn't implementing controls. It's proving they've been maintained consistently. Auditors and insurers don't just ask "do you have MFA enforced?" They ask "can you demonstrate it's been enforced continuously across all client environments?"
Without ZeroConfig, that means manually reviewing each tenant against your baseline, documenting discrepancies, and remediating them. It's a project every time someone asks.
With ZeroConfig, your template defines the required controls. Report mode shows compliance status at any time. Report and Modify remediates drift and documents the change automatically. When the auditor asks, you pull the report.
See ZeroConfig with
your actual configuration.
Book a demo and we'll walk through building a template—whether you’re new to Okta or already familiar. Bring your current deployment checklist and we'll show you what it looks like automated.