At its annual Oktane user conference, identity management service Okta today announced its plans to start treating AI agents — or nonhuman identities — as first-class entities on its platform. The company argues that its experience in identity and access management translates well to AI agents and that, as CEO Todd McKinnon said during his keynote, “to get AI agent security right, you have to get identity right.”
McKinnon argued that it takes an end-to-end approach to fully secure agents and ensure they only get access to the data…








