Govern your AI agents from a single control plane
Okta provides the identity layer for your agent rollouts. Bring your AI agents into your identity security fabric to discover, onboard, and protect them at scale.
Challenges
The identity gap at the center of AI security
New attack surface
This year, 88% of organizations report confirmed or suspected AI agent security incidents.*
Agents without identities
Only 22% of teams treat agents as independent, identity-bearing entities.*
Widening governance gap
While 91% of organizations use AI, 44% have no governance in place.**
THE BLUEPRINT
Secure your agentic enterprise
AI agents create an identity gap traditional security wasn’t built for. Okta helps to close it by treating every agent as a first-class identity—a process that starts by answering three non-negotiable questions.
HOW IT WORKS
Bring agents out of the shadows
Okta provides the identity security fabric to see, manage, and govern your entire AI workforce at scale. Explore the core capabilities, now available in Early Access.‡
Discover AI agents
Continuously discover sanctioned and shadow AI agents to see what they access, map their potential impact, and prioritize your highest risks.
Register agents & define ownership
Register every agent into a unified directory. By assigning clear human owners, you establish a single source of truth for accountability and policies.
Manage privilege credentials & API access
Eliminate risky, long-lived tokens by vaulting and rotating privileged credentials. Enforce least-privilege policies to protect critical systems.
Govern & audit agent access over time
Bring agents into certification workflows to enforce least privilege. Enable automated access reviews and human ownership for full lifecycle control.
COMING SOON
Agent Gateway
Agent Gateway serves as a central control plane that uses a virtual MCP server to aggregate tools from Okta’s MCP registry, which secures and logs all agent interactions for unified audit and observability.
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Frequently asked questions
Okta for AI Agents provides a comprehensive governance layer by treating every AI agent as a unique, non-human identity within the Okta Universal Directory. This allows you to:
Discover shadow AI agents: Automatically discover and register your AI agents, helping you reduce “shadow AI.”
Standardize access: Unify agent access through a single control plane, enforcing least-privilege policies.
Manage lifecycles: Oversee the entire agent lifecycle, from credentialing and secure access to monitoring and decommissioning.
Agent lifecycle management: Integrate AI agents into standard certification workflows to help ensure all actions are traceable to human intent.
“Shadow AI” refers to any AI agent being used or developed within your organization without the approval of IT and security, creating significant risks and blind spots.
For sanctioned environments like Salesforce and Microsoft Copilot Studio, Okta provides deep visibility into agent owners and permissions. To find truly hidden agents, the Okta platform also analyzes real-time OAuth grants to surface unvetted apps that bypass security reviews.
This unified discovery process allows you to register your agent in Universal Directory, creating a single source of truth and helping you reduce Shadow AI.
Agent Gateway serves as a centralized control plane to secure AI agent access to resources. Its virtual MCP server capability allows administrators to aggregate and expose tools from Okta’s MCP registry. All interactions between AI agents and resources are logged for audit and observability.
Okta helps secure AI agents by enforcing the principle of least privilege, which is a critical mitigation for many OWASP Top 10 for LLM threats. For example:
Prompt injection & excessive agency: By enforcing strict, context-aware authorization policies, Okta limits what an AI agent can do if it is compromised by a prompt injection attack. This helps prevent an exploited agent from accessing sensitive data or performing unauthorized actions.
Supply chain vulnerabilities & model theft: Okta helps you secure the entire MLOps pipeline by managing access to the tools, code repositories, and model registries that developers use, preventing unauthorized access and tampering.
Yes. Okta helps manage the entire lifecycle of your AI agents, from its registration to its eventual decommissioning. This includes:
Registration: Assigning a unique, secure identity when an agent is created.
Credentialing: Vaulting and rotating secrets and API keys to prevent exposure.
Operation: Enforcing fine-grained access policies during runtime.
Auditing: Providing a complete audit trail of all agent activities.
Decommissioning: Revoking access and credentials when an agent is no longer needed.
Okta’s approach is fundamentally different for three key reasons:
Identity-first: Traditional security tools fail because AI agents don't operate at the network or endpoint layer. Our identity-first model is essential because it secures the agent itself, not just the perimeter.
Vendor-neutral: Unlike tools tied to a single cloud ecosystem, we provide a universal control plane. This allows you to govern your AI agents with consistent policies across all your platforms.
Manages the full AI lifecycle: Okta goes beyond just securing credentials. Our platform allows you to discover shadow agents, map their potential blast radius, and assign human owners, transforming unknown risks into governed assets.