The Cross App Access Protocol Makes AI Agents Enterprise-Ready

Okta provided this writer with travel assistance to attend its Oktane conference.

LAS VEGAS — Most enterprises are now using AI agents in some form, but few have any governance systems in place to control them. A new open protocol, Cross App Access (XAA), backed by the likes of Okta, AWS, Box, Glean, Grammarly, Miro and Writer, aims to bring agents into existing identity management solutions to govern what kind of data they can access.

XAA treats agents as first-class entities inside existing security and identity management services…