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What to expect during Okta’s Oktane event: Join theCUBE Sept. 24

Identity security just became the gatekeeper for AI agents. Okta's treating nonhuman identities like humans — and it matters.

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Why it matters

As AI agents proliferate in enterprise workflows, identity and access control for autonomous systems is becoming critical infrastructure. Okta's strategy of extending human-user governance to agent identities reflects a real deployment challenge practitioners are hitting now.

The key facts

10 to know
  1. AI agents now require governed identity management, not treated as ordinary software

  2. Identity security determines safe agent access to enterprise systems

  3. Okta extending human-user controls to nonhuman (agent) identities

  4. Oktane event Sept. 24, 2026

  5. Agent autonomy across workflows driving identity governance shift

  6. Identity security now determines how safely AI agents can access systems and act across enterprise workflows

  7. Companies must treat AI agents as governed identities rather than ordinary software tools

  8. Okta extending established human-user controls to nonhuman identities

  9. Oktane event scheduled for Sept. 24, 2026

  10. Focus on identity controls for agent access and task execution across enterprise applications

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Publisher excerpt: Identity security now determines how safely artificial intelligence agents can access systems and act across enterprise workflows. As AI agents log in to applications and execute tasks, companies must treat them as governed identities rather than ordinary software tools. Okta’s strategy reflects…
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