- AI agents and superagents pose real risks when working autonomously in sensitive environments
- Only one in five organizations treats agents as identity-bearing entities, a poor measure for security.
- Okta for AI Agents will launch on April 30 as an IAM platform for AI agents
Okta has revealed the details of its ‘secure agent enterprise’ plan in a bid to show how companies can manage AI agents in a similar way to human agents.
As part of the change, Okta will launch Okta for AI Agents on April 30, 2026, as a platform to discover, register and manage AI agents, including shadow agents that may have otherwise gone undetected.
By standardizing access, the IAM company hopes to give businesses access to improved visibility and a central kill switch.
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Okta’s decision to launch an AI management platform comes at a major inflection point, where companies hope to increase their employment of AI agents while decreasing their dependence on certain human workers.
Now that AI agents can act autonomously across systems and so-called “super agents” like OpenClaw can execute commands and access files, companies are demanding clearer and more complete management. According to Okta, the majority (88%) of organizations have reported AI agent security incidents.
However, only about one in five (22%) treat AI agents as identity-bearing entities, highlighting a major security gap as their capabilities become more human-like.
“AI agents are evolving faster than any software before them, making traditional security models obsolete. Speed is now a given, but security is the differentiator,” wrote President of Products and Technology Ric Smith.
The platform covers three main questions: “where are my agents?”, “what can they connect to?” and ‘what can they do?’
And through agent integrations on the Okta Integration Network (OIN), the company has partnered with AI platforms, including Boomi, DataRobot, and Google Vertex AI, to expand its existing integration catalog of 8,200 units.
“With this new plan, Okta is setting the industry standard for the insurance agent business,” Smith concluded.
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