Identity specialist Okta is laying the groundwork for a number of incoming announcements designed to help its customers get to grips with the challenge of securing non-human, agentic identities.
Identity specialist Okta is laying the groundwork for a number of incoming announcements designed to help its customers get to grips with the challenge of securing non-human, agentic identities.
Ahead of the official opening of identity specialist Okta’s annual Oktane customer conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, the cyber security supplier shared a preview of how it aims to help users secure non-human identities (NHIs) such as AI agents, as the security sector faces up to a looming gap in technological capabilities through which threat actors are likely already wriggling.
Okta will flesh out this vision over the coming days, but speaking to reporters ahead of the planned announcements, the firm’s president and chief operating officer Eric Kelleher said this gap is informing Okta’s response as it moves through a new stage in its lifecycle.
Having weathered the transition of identity from on-premise environments to cloud-based ones, and a redefining of the fundamental concept of identity from a functional enabler to a security enabler, the advent of vast numbers of agentic NHIs is forcing a third wave of change.
