- AI agents and super-agents pose real risks working autonomously across sensitive environments
- Only one in five organizations treat agents as identity-carrying entities—a bad move for security
- Okta for AI Agents launches on April 30 as an AI agent IAM platform
Okta has revealed the details of its ‘secure agent business’ plan in an attempt to outline how companies can manage AI agents in the same way as human agents.
As part of the shift, Okta will launch Okta for AI Agents on April 30, 2026, as a platform for discovering, registering and managing AI agents, including shadow agents that might otherwise have gone undetected.
By standardizing access, the IAM company hopes to give companies access to improved visibility and one central kill switch.
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Okta’s decision to launch an AI management platform comes at an important juncture where companies expect to increase the employment of AI agents while reducing their reliance 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, businesses are calling for clearer and more comprehensive governance. According to Okta, most (88%) organizations have reported AI agent security incidents.
However, only around one in five (22%) treat AI agents as identity-carrying entities, highlighting a major security gap as they become more human-like in their functionality.
“AI agents are evolving faster than any software before them, rendering traditional security models obsolete. Speed is now a given, but security is the differentiator,” wrote president of product and technology Ric Smith.
The platform covers three primary questions: ‘where are my agents?’, ‘what can they connect to?’ and ‘what can they do?’.
And via agent integrations in the Okta Integration Network (OIN), the company has partnered with AI platforms including Boomi, DataRobot and Google Vertex AI to expand its existing 8,200-strong catalog of integrations.
“With this new plan, Okta is establishing the industry standard for the secure agent business,” Smith concluded.
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