Okta (OKTA) The Oktane Call 2026 Investor Summit summary

Industry vision and collaboration

• Emphasized the need for a new identity type for every AI agent to secure AI advancements and balance innovation with risk management.

• Highlighted the industry's struggle between locking down AI for security and opening it up for innovation, advocating for visibility and control as the solution.

• Blueprint Alliance launched to create an open, multi-vendor reference architecture for securing AI agents, addressing agent discovery, capabilities, activity, and response.

• Founding members aligned on principles for agent operation and co-authored the blueprint, enabling standardized governance across the agentic stack.

• Stressed that every layer of the technology stack is being transformed by AI, requiring industry-wide collaboration and standardization.

Blueprint pillars and standardization

• Outlined the blueprint's four pillars: agent registry, permissions/governance, runtime monitoring, and incident response, all underpinned by shared risk signals and telemetry.

• Announced Agent SSO, enabling seamless, secure access for AI agents across resources, now available in all products at no extra cost.

• Demonstrated how Agent SSO, based on the open Cross App Access standard, streamlines agent authentication and authorization, reducing friction and improving security.

• Noted growing industry adoption of Cross App Access, with major vendors and AI agents like Claude supporting the protocol.

• Identified ongoing challenges such as fine-grained and intent-based authorization, and the need for industry-wide collaboration on agent identity standards.

Product innovation and platform enhancements

• Launched Okta for AI Agents as a generally available product, focused on identity management for AI agents and integrated across all offerings.

• Released 25 major features since April, including Shadow AI Agent Discovery, Agent Gateway for centralized control, and third-party IdP support.

• New features include Shadow AI Agent Discovery, Agent-to-Agent Connections, and Agent Gateway for real-time governance and secure delegation among AI agents.

• Configuration Designer and Agent Gateway Kill Switch provide visual governance and instant containment for compromised agents.

• Okta for AI Agents extended to customer identity, enabling secure governance for customer-facing AI agents with rapid deactivation and policy-based access.