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Okta writes its own license to kill rogue AI agents
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CEO Todd McKinnon says customers including ServiceNow want an off switch.
Key facts
- McKinnon said that he has spent the past six months meeting Okta's largest customers in person, reaching roughly 75 of the company's top 100 accounts
- Okta for AI Agents integrates with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a fully managed AI service from AWS to provide identity governance for agents, including ownership assignment, lifecycle management
- Jason Bourne, Ethan Hunt, and James Bond have each run afoul of their governance at various junctures, yet stopping them takes sequel after sequel until all the loose ends are tied up and they
- Okta CEO Todd McKinnon told investors that’s what ServiceNow was asking for when the ITSM market leader came calling
Summary
Rogue agents are dangerous, but eliminating them is never easy. Jason Bourne, Ethan Hunt, and James Bond have each run afoul of their governance at various junctures, yet stopping them takes sequel after sequel until all the loose ends are tied up and they eventually die or retire, only to get rebooted. Okta leaders, citing the company's own research, say enterprises are deploying AI agents faster than they are securing them, with 92 percent of executives reporting moderate or widespread use of autonomous AI agents, but only 22 percent saying their organizations have identities tied to those agents. “That is a real problem,” Okta president and chief operating officer Eric Kelleher said during the company's earnings call on Thursday. In short, when agents go sideways, someone has to handle the dirty work.