"This technology wave has tremendous potential, but we have to make sure we put the right controls and foundational groundwork in place to make it secure as well. We know what problems you have and what solutions that we need to build for you. They all center around three really important questions: the first one sounds simple, what agents do I have? What can they connect to? What can they do?"
"Over the last 17 years, Okta's bet on identity access has paid off, whether it was in securing users in the cloud, during the wave of mobile adoption at work, as work shifted remote during the pandemic, or now at the outset of agentic AI. The challenge of managing agents prompted Okta to build a reference architecture for securing the agentic enterprise."
"Through a governance dashboard, admins can see and control what agents have access to down to the scope of the work, and at the tool-level. What if an agent goes rogue? You need a kill switch. With Okta for AI Agents you can trigger a universal log out if an agent behaves unexpectedly."
Okta announced general availability of Okta for AI Agents, a platform addressing three critical needs: locating AI agents, monitoring their activities, and disabling them when necessary. CEO Todd McKinnon emphasized that while agentic AI presents significant opportunities, proper security controls and foundational infrastructure are essential. Okta built a reference architecture and product to answer fundamental questions about agent inventory, connectivity, and capabilities. The platform enables one-click agent imports from major vendors like Salesforce, ServiceNow, Google, and AWS. Features include continuous agent discovery to identify unmanaged agents, governance dashboards for access control at scope and tool levels, and emergency shutdown capabilities through universal logout functionality.
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