Okta

What the company sells

Okta sells a platform that secures identities, including the AI agents running across a business. Okta has over 20,000 enterprise customers.

Okta describes AI agents as a new kind of identity. Okta says AI adoption is outpacing controls. Okta names excessive agency, credential sprawl and lack of runtime visibility as the primary security risks of deploying autonomous AI agents, which can allow unmanaged agents to access sensitive enterprise data or execute unauthorized operations.

Okta describes the threat of autonomous agents granted overly broad permissions that let them read, write or execute destructive actions across enterprise tools beyond their intended operational scope. Okta describes malicious or malformed inputs that manipulate an agent into executing unauthorized API calls or exfiltrating data via third-party integrations. Okta describes the threat of compromising an agent's persistent memory or runtime context to alter its behavioral constraints and bypass safety guardrails. Okta describes enterprise teams spinning up unvetted agents with hardcoded, long-lived API keys. Okta says that without identity, most enterprises are left with gaps such as no inventory of which agents exist, who owns them or what they are authorized to do. Okta says that without identity, most enterprises have no record to produce when an auditor asks who authorized an action.

Okta says a named owner tied to a human gives accountability. Okta says permissions enforced at runtime give authorization. Okta says logged actions against a verified identity give an audit trail. Okta says runtime detection, access policies and a kill switch all depend on an identity foundation.

Okta for AI Agents extends discovery, lifecycle management and governance to every agent in the enterprise. Okta describes an offering that establishes secure permissions, verifies AI agent identity and audits automated actions. Okta describes tracking each agent, verifying ownership, governing access and shutting down rogue actions in real time. Okta describes verifying the agent, brokering credentials at runtime and logging each tool call without code changes to agents or tools. Okta describes tracing every action, delegating on a user's behalf, or running agents unsupervised, all under one auditable record. Okta describes tools for agentic commerce and for offering B2B agentic experiences at scale.

Okta's AI agent security stack is built around three capabilities across workforce and customer identity use cases. Okta makes the open Cross App Access standard part of core Okta SSO, giving every Okta customer an identity model for AI agents. Okta describes relationship-based access control (ReBAC) that evaluates and enforces permissions at the individual tool-call level in real time. Okta provides a control plane that spans multi-cloud environments, heterogeneous SaaS platforms and custom developer architectures.

Okta describes a single, secure ecosystem for an entire business that keeps employees, partners and AI agents connected. Okta describes an offering built for enterprise scale that centralizes business directories, streamlines access and is aimed at meeting global compliance standards. Okta describes authentication designed to protect user data. Okta has joined a cross-industry coalition to help organizations secure AI and govern the agentic stack. Okta has partnered with other organizations to co-author a blueprint that answers four questions about securing AI agents.^{[1][13][17][19]}

Categories

• Workforce IAM and SSO (primary category)
• Customer identity and access management
• Compare Okta with companies in the same categoryside by side

Headquarters

San Francisco, United States^[2]

Founded

2009^[2]

Ownership

Public (NASDAQ: OKTA)^{[3][12][14][16]}

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Website

okta.com

Products and services

Product names as the company writes them; what each does, in our words, from the company's own product pages. Never how well it does it.

• Okta for AI Agents^[9][12][19]

  Okta for AI Agents extends discovery, lifecycle management and governance to every agent in the enterprise.

• Cross App Access^[19]

  Cross App Access is an open standard that Okta makes part of core Okta SSO.

Competitors and alternatives

The other companies on our record filed under the same categories, category by category: first those that lead with that category and share more of Okta's categories, then alphabetical. A list from the record, never a ranking.

• On workforce iam and sso, Okta competes with Amazon Web Services, HID, JumpCloud, RSA Security, SecurEnvoy, Auth0, Descope, Nametag, Atos, CyberTrust Consulting and 14 more.

• On customer identity and access management, Okta competes with Auth0, Descope, Transmit Security, Nametag and 1Kosmos.

What review platforms show

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• G2 · 4.0 out of 5 · 1,436 reviews^[16]seen November 10, 2026

Named customers

Organizations publicly named as customers, each linked to the page that names it. Not a complete list, and not an endorsement.

• Box^[4]Okta
• HubSpot^[5]Okta
• Hitachi^[6]Okta
• News Corp^[7]Okta
• Jamf^[8]Okta

Recent news

Dated company events from the last twelve months, each in one sentence of ours with its source. Newest first.

• November 5, 2026

  Okta announced that its board approved a share repurchase program authorizing purchases of up to $1 billion of its Class A Common Stock, effective immediately. Okta, Inc.^[18]

• September 22, 2026

  Okta launched new Okta for AI Agents capabilities, including endpoint discovery of unmanaged agents, an agent gateway and agent-to-agent connection controls. Okta^[9]

• August 26, 2026

  Okta reported second quarter fiscal 2027 revenue of $805 million, up 11% year over year, with subscription revenue of $793 million. Okta^[10]

• July 30, 2026

  Okta signed a definitive agreement to acquire Permiso Security, a cloud identity threat detection company covering human, non-human and AI agent identities. Okta^[11]

• March 7, 2026

  Okta and Datadog added rules from the Okta Security Detection Catalog to Datadog's Cloud SIEM out-of-the-box detections for identity-related threats. Okta Security^[15]

References

Every fact above cites one of these by number. Tier A is the company itself, a regulator or a filing; tier B is trade or business press.

1. [1]okta.comOkta · okta.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
2. [2]CompanyOkta · okta.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
3. [3]DefaultOkta Investor Relations · investor.okta.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
4. [4]okta.comOkta · okta.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
5. [5]HubspotOkta · okta.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
6. [6]HitachiOkta · okta.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
7. [7]News corpOkta · okta.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
8. [8]okta.comOkta · okta.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
9. [9]Ai innovations oktane 2026Okta · okta.com · published September 22, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
10. [10]Okta announces second quarter 2027 financial resultsOkta · okta.com · published August 26, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
11. [11]Okta signs definitive agreement to acquire permiso securityOkta · okta.com · published July 30, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
12. [12]Secure Identity for Employees, Customers, and AI | OktaOkta · undated page, accessed October 23, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
13. [13]Okta Security Trust Center | Powered by SafeBaseOkta · undated page, accessed October 23, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
14. [14]Why Work At Okta? | OktaOkta · undated page, accessed October 23, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
15. [15]Datadog and Okta Combine for New Customer DetectionsOkta Security · published March 7, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
16. [16]Okta Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features - G2G2 · undated page, accessed October 23, 2026 · Tier C
17. [17]Zero Trust Framework: Identity-powered Modern Security | OktaOkta · published August 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
18. [18]Okta Announces $1 Billion Share Repurchase ProgramOkta, Inc. · published November 5, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
19. [19]Okta Secures AI | Identity for the Agentic Enterprise | OktaOkta · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing

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Recorded September 27, 2026, expanded November 10, 2026 from the references above.

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