Okta writes its own license to kill rogue AI agents
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.
It’s not so different in the world of AI agents.
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. “It's a measurable, quantifiable exposure customers have right now within their companies, and they need to invest to fix it."
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