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Okta for AI Agents

Review what this vendor says publicly, the security topics those statements may support, what remains unverified, and factual company context. This is not an assessment of product effectiveness or fit.

Use-case context

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AI spend and usageNo related approach

No solution approach in the current research connects this vendor to this use case.

Company scale

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  • $2.9B annual revenue (2026-01-31)
  • $75M known funding
  • 1000+ employees
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Vendor statements
19 records
Source-checked records
14
Evaluation requirements
19 in this research model
Unresolved requirements
5

Company intelligence

Who is behind the product

Company facts provide evaluation context. Each signal is kept separate because tenure, workforce, funding, and hiring answer different questions.

Founded2009
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California
OwnershipPublic company (Nasdaq: OKTA)
Employees1000+
Capital and scalePlatform provider

Okta

Known funding
$75M

SERIES_C_PLUS · $75M · 2015-09-01

Operating scale
Okta positions itself as an independent identity platform for human, machine, and AI-agent identities
Backing context
Public-company investment in Okta Workforce Identity, Customer Identity, Auth0, and Okta for AI Agents
Founders and leadership1 person listed
  • Todd McKinnon

    CEO

    Current role listed
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Company tenure
2009
Workforce scale
1000+
Hiring activity
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Open research questions
  • A current hiring source is not available, so the count is not shown.
Company sources and research limits5 linked public sources

Only company facts supported by retained public sources are shown. Missing values remain unknown, and company scale does not establish product effectiveness.

Company sourceOkta for AI Agents pageOkta describes generally available discovery, onboarding, protection, credentialing, governance, audit, and lifecycle controls for AI agents.Company sourceOkta AI Agents Core announcementOkta's regulated-environment announcement describes the public-company identity platform and general availability of Okta for AI Agents Core.Company information sourcecompany_intelSupports the company facts shown in this profile.Company information sourceStored company websiteSupports the company facts shown in this profile.Regulatory filing10-K annual filingOkta, Inc. (OKTA) · period ended 2026-01-31

Solution areas

These areas describe how the vendor approaches enterprise AI security. They do not establish product quality or fit.

Agent identity and permissionsCore product focusMachine and workload identityCore product focusAction-taking agent safeguardsRelated coverageAI gateway and tool-connection controlsRelated coverageAI asset and configuration securityRelated coverageAI governance, risk, and complianceRelated coverage

Buyer context

  • Treat Okta for AI Agents as an identity, authorization, credentialing, and lifecycle control plane for agents rather than an AI content-security or red-teaming platform.
  • Okta states that its core agent capabilities are generally available and include known and unknown agent discovery, registration, human ownership, short-lived credentials, least privilege, governance, audit, and deactivation.
  • Public pages reviewed did not establish AI red teaming, browser content controls, software as a service (SaaS) embedded-AI feature inventory, FinOps, or a public licensing unit for the agent product.

Related frameworks

Where public vendor statements relate to framework requirements

11 related frameworks · expand when needed
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Current referenceCIS Critical Security Controls
Requirements with public support
13
Related requirements
11
References
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Current referenceCSA AI Controls Matrix
Requirements with public support
13
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14
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71
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Current referenceISO/IEC 42001
Requirements with public support
13
Related requirements
12
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35
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Current referenceMITRE ATLAS
Requirements with public support
13
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12
References
71
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Current referenceNIST AI RMF Playbook
Requirements with public support
13
Related requirements
13
References
39
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Current referenceNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0
Requirements with public support
13
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12
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39
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Informative referenceOWASP Agentic AI Security Solutions Landscape
Requirements with public support
13
Related requirements
12
References
31
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Informative referenceOWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape
Requirements with public support
13
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11
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27
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Current referenceOWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications
Requirements with public support
13
Related requirements
13
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31
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Current referenceOWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications
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13
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13
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Commercial Metadata
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3
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Evaluation questions

What to verify beyond public claims

These questions come from security requirements with some public support. Use them as starting points for demonstrations, documentation review, customer references, or a buyer-observed pilot.

  1. 01
    Unapproved AI use discovery

    An unmanaged AI app used by a test user appears in discovery inventory with user, app or domain, and timestamp.

  2. 02
    Unapproved AI use discovery

    The test user's AI usage activity can be filtered or exported with AI-specific context.

  3. 03
    Approved AI usage monitoring

    Approved AI workspace activity appears with user, workspace or tenant, model or provider, and timestamp.

  4. 04
    Approved AI usage monitoring

    Prompt, model, or admin activity can be exported or correlated for the selected approved AI platform.

  5. 05
    Controls for unapproved AI use

    A policy blocks, coaches, redirects, or contains a test interaction with an unapproved AI destination.

  6. 06
    Controls for unapproved AI use

    The control event records policy reason, user, destination, action, and timestamp.

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    Sensitive-data protection for generative AI

    Sensitive prompt, response, or file test data is detected and classified during an AI interaction.

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    Sensitive-data protection for generative AI

    A policy redacts, blocks, coaches, or records the sensitive data event before it leaves the approved path.

Detailed security-requirement research18 evaluation items · supporting evidence and open research are shown separatelyExpand
Security requirementPublic supportRelated frameworksWhat to verify
AI-feature discovery in business applications

Inventory software as a service (SaaS) applications that embed AI features, expose enterprise data to AI capabilities, or create AI-driven data movement.

No supporting claim found
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A software as a service (SaaS) app with an embedded AI feature appears in the software as a service (SaaS) AI inventory with app, provider, and feature context.

Browser and business-application controls

Apply session-level controls in browser and software as a service (SaaS) workflows, including uploads, downloads, copy/paste, sharing, and identity-aware access decisions.

No supporting claim found
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A session-level policy controls upload, download, copy, paste, sharing, or form submission in a browser or software as a service (SaaS) workflow.

Generative AI application security

Protect enterprise-built large language model (LLM) applications, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, prompts, application programming interfaces (APIs), model calls, tools, and production runtime behavior.

Limited public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test large language model (LLM) application event records prompt, application programming interface (API), model, retrieval, or tool interaction context.

AI governance, risk, and compliance

Inventory AI systems and owners, translate policy and regulatory obligations into governed workflows, assess risk, manage approvals and exceptions, and retain audit evidence across the AI lifecycle.

Strong public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test AI system is registered with owner, intended use, risk tier, lifecycle state, and applicable obligations.

AI assurance and adversarial testing

Test models, applications, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, and agents before release and continuously thereafter using adversarial probes, evaluation suites, attack simulation, and security release gates.

No supporting claim found
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A controlled test campaign exercises an AI model, application, or agent against named AI attack classes.

AI model and supply-chain security

Discover, inventory, scan, validate, and monitor models, datasets, model artifacts, registries, dependencies, and AI development assets for tampering, unsafe serialization, provenance gaps, or malicious content.

Limited public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test model or AI artifact appears in inventory with origin, version, hash or provenance, and deployment context.

AI gateway, tool-connection, and runtime controls

Mediate model, agent, tool, application programming interface (API), connector, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) traffic through an enforcement point that applies identity-aware policy, content controls, routing, rate limits, and auditable allow or deny decisions.

Limited public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A model, agent, tool, or Model Context Protocol (MCP) request passes through a named policy enforcement point.

Non-human identity and service-account security

Inventory, least privilege, credential hygiene, monitoring, and lifecycle management for non-human identities, workloads, service accounts, application programming interface (API) keys, and machine credentials.

Strong public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test service account, agent identity, or non-human identity appears in inventory with owner and privileges.

AI agent identity and permissions

Register AI agents as accountable identities, bind them to owners and delegating users, authorize task- and tool-level access, issue short-lived credentials, review access, and revoke or suspend agent authority.

Strong public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test agent is registered with a unique identity, accountable owner, purpose, and permitted resources.

AI coding-agent and workstation security

Discover and govern AI coding agents, integrated development environment (IDE) assistants, command-line agents, skills, hooks, extensions, Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, filesystem access, commands, network activity, secrets, and software-supply-chain actions on developer workstations and build environments.

Limited public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test coding agent and its skills, hooks, extensions, or Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools appear in an attributable inventory.

Licensing model

Publicly discoverable commercial model such as per user, per seat, per app, per token, per integration, or enterprise platform license.

No supporting claim found
Commercial MetadataCSA AI Controls Matrix

The vendor can map the sourced commercial model to per-user, per-seat, per-app, per-token, per-integration, or platform packaging.

Public sources

Vendor statements and quoted evidence

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Unapproved AI use discoverySource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Okta claims continuous discovery of unknown AI agents and detection of OAuth consent grants for agents outside standard review.

Continuously discover unknown agents
AI-feature discovery in business applicationsNo supporting claim found

Okta materials reviewed did not provide a public claim for tenant-level inventory of embedded AI features across enterprise software as a service (SaaS) applications.

No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
Approved AI usage monitoringSource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Okta claims registration of agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers in a centralized directory with assigned human owners.

Register your agents and MCP servers
Controls for unapproved AI useSource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Okta claims a kill switch that deactivates rogue agents and prevents new token requests.

Deactivate the agent with a kill switch
Sensitive-data protection for generative AISource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Okta claims least-privilege policies that constrain agent access to critical systems and data.

Enforce least-privilege policies to protect critical systems and data.
Browser and business-application controlsNo supporting claim found

Okta materials reviewed did not provide a public claim for browser session controls over AI upload, download, copy, paste, sharing, or form submission.

No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
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Generative AI application securitySource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Okta claims context-aware authorization policies that limit compromised agents after prompt injection.

context-aware authorization policies
AI governance, risk, and complianceSource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Okta claims automated agent governance workflows, lifecycle access reviews, revocation, and full audit trails.

automated governance workflows
AI assurance and adversarial testingNo supporting claim found

Okta materials reviewed did not provide a public claim for adversarial AI testing, red teaming, model evaluation, or release-gate regression testing.

No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
AI model and supply-chain securitySource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Okta claims access management for tools, code repositories, and model registries to reduce unauthorized access and tampering.

tools, code repositories, and model registries
AI gateway, tool-connection, and runtime controlsSource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Okta claims centralized access policies over agent connections to Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, application programming interfaces (APIs), and other agents.

from MCP servers to APIs and even other agents
Action-taking agent monitoringSource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Okta claims visibility into known and unknown agents, their owners, permissions, accessible resources, and lifecycle state.

see what they can access
Agent-to-agent communication securitySource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Okta claims centralized access policies for connections between agents as well as Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and application programming interfaces (APIs).

and even other agents
Non-human identity and service-account securitySource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Okta claims secret and application programming interface (API)-key vaulting and rotation for AI-agent credential lifecycle.

Vault and rotate secrets and API keys
AI agent identity and permissionsSource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Okta claims unique agent registration, human ownership, short-lived credentials, runtime policies, governance, audit, and retirement.

temporary, short-lived credentials
AI coding-agent and workstation securitySource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Okta claims access management for code repositories and model registries used by developers.

managing access to the tools, code repositories, and model registries
AI cost and usage controlsNo supporting claim found

Okta materials reviewed did not provide a public claim for AI spend attribution, budgets, chargeback, rate limits, or token-cost anomaly detection.

No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
Licensing modelNo supporting claim found

Okta materials reviewed did not provide a public licensing unit or price for Okta for AI Agents.

No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
Approved AI platform contextSource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Okta claims a vendor-neutral identity control plane using standards across agents, identity providers, platforms, application programming interfaces (APIs), software as a service (SaaS), and cloud services.

Vendor-neutral