Okta bets on identity to control AI agents, but is identity enough?
Brief
Concerns over agentic risks are rising, and identity and access management (IAM) giant Okta believes it’s making the moves of a would-be leader in this emerging cyber market.
“Identity is the primary control plane for securing AI,” said Okta CEO and co-founder Todd McKinnon in an earnings call in late August , telling investment analysts that the company’s customers see Okta as well-positioned to secure this agentic future. “And so we’re going after that on all fronts.”
“We think that being the system of record for agents in the enterprise and being the system of record for agent identity, in the fullness of time, could be the biggest category of cyber,” he added.
At the center of that strategy is Okta for AI Agents, an identity management and security platform for tracking and controlling agentic entities and activity.