About Okta
Okta sells a platform that secures identities, including the AI agents running across a business. Okta has over 20,000 enterprise customers.[19]
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.[19]
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.[19]
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.[1][19]
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.[19]
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.[19]
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]
Okta on the record