Securely manage your AI agents from a single control plane
Bring your AI agents into Okta to discover, onboard, protect, and govern them at scale.
The identity gap at the center of AI security
of organizations reported AI agent security incidents.*
of teams treat agents as unique identities.**
of organizations use AI.**
of organizations have no governance in place.**
THE BLUEPRINT
Secure your agentic enterprise
AI agents are the fastest-growing identity in the enterprise and the least governed. Okta brings them under your control by treating your agents as first-class identities. This starts by answering three non-negotiable questions.
HOW IT WORKS
Bring AI agents under your control
Okta provides the identity layer to discover, onboard, protect, and govern all your AI agents. Explore the core capabilities, now Generally Available.
Discover AI agents across your environment
Continuously discover unknown agents and see what they can access and where they may introduce risk.
Onboard AI agents as first-class identities
Register your agents and MCP servers, no matter where they are built, in a centralized directory and assign a clear human owner to strengthen accountability, governance, and compliance.
Protect AI agent connections to resources
Reduce risky, long-lived tokens by providing agents with temporary, short-lived credentials as they connect to different resources. Enforce least-privilege policies to protect critical systems and data.
Govern the full AI agent lifecycle
Enforce automated governance workflows and a kill switch to revoke access for rogue agents when needed, with a full audit trail to help ensure agents only retain the access they need.
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Frequently asked questions
Okta for AI Agents treats your AI agents as first-class identities within Universal Directory. This allows you to:
Discover and onboard AI agents: Automatically identify known and shadow AI agents, register them in Okta with clear human ownership, and create a single source of truth.
Protect AI agents: Enforce least-privilege access with short-lived credentials instead of risky, long-lived tokens.
Govern AI agents: Apply automated governance workflows, maintain a full audit trail, and revoke access when needed.
“Shadow AI” refers to AI agents that are created, connected, and used within your organization without the approval of IT and security, creating significant risks and blind spots.
For known agents on platforms like Salesforce and Microsoft Copilot Studio, Okta provides deep visibility into agent owners and permissions. To discover unknown agents, Okta detects OAuth consent grants to surface agents connecting directly to apps outside standard security review.
You can then register those agents in Universal Directory, assign clear ownership, and create a single source of truth to help reduce Shadow AI.
Okta helps secure AI agents by enforcing the principle of least privilege, which is a critical mitigation for many 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 a critical part of the 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 retirement. This includes:
Registration: Assign a unique identity when an agent is created.
Credentialing: Vault and rotate secrets and API keys to prevent exposure.
Access control: Enforce fine-grained access policies during runtime.
Governance: Apply governance workflows, revoke access when the agent behaves unexpectedly or is no longer needed, and maintain a full audit trail.
Okta’s approach is fundamentally different for three key reasons:
Identity-first: Traditional security tools fail because AI agents act across APIs, SaaS apps, and cloud services, not just managed devices or fixed perimeters. Okta’s identity-first model provides a unified control plane for humans, services, and agents, reducing silos with consistent policy enforcement across environments.
Vendor-neutral: Unlike tools tied to a specific cloud or AI platform, Okta prevents vendor lock-in by championing new standards like ID-JAG that work across environments. This allows you to govern your AI agents with consistent policies, control what they can connect to, and revoke access across all your platforms.
Full AI lifecycle management: Okta goes beyond just securing credentials, providing end-to-end MCP coverage to secure the entire AI agent lifecycle. With Okta, you can discover known and unknown shadow AI agents, understand their risks, assign human owners, enforce granular access policies, and govern their access over time. This helps transform unknown risks into managed assets.