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Beyond Passports: Securing AI Agents Before They Scale Beyond Control

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91% of organizations are deploying AI agents. Nearly half can't see what those agents are doing. The security model built for humans can't govern agents that move at machine speed, spawn other agents, and reach across your apps at once.

Drawn from Okta's formal NIST submission, this whitepaper answers the three questions every CISO must address before agents scale beyond control:

  •  Where are my agents? Discover and register every agent as a first-class identity with a named owner.
  • What can they connect to? Shrink the blast radius with MCP, Cross-App Access, and short-lived tokens. Not risky static credentials.
  • What can they do? Enforce authorization at every tool call, catch prompt injection, and flip a universal kill switch in seconds.

The shift you need: from a passport that proves who an agent is to a power of attorney that governs what it's allowed to do. Read why analyst SACR called Okta's approach the most architecturally rigorous of 15 vendors evaluated.

Topics

  • Whitepaper
  • Whitepaper
  • AI Agents
  • Zero Trust

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