Open standards are essential for building secure, interoperable, and trustworthy AI ecosystems. Aaron Parecki, Director of Identity Standards at Okta, discusses the IPSIE working group’s efforts to create consistent identity security profiles, why protocols like MCP and A2A require authentication frameworks to safely manage AI agents’ access and co...
As organizations rapidly adopt SaaS applications and AI tools, they face a surge in identity sprawl—across human and non-human identities, including AI agents. This proliferation introduces security risks such as misconfigured access and orphaned accounts, while also raising challenges around securing privileged identities, emphasizing the need for...
Interview with Harish Peri from Okta. Oktane Preview: building frameworks to secure our Agentic AI future. Like it or not, Agentic AI and protocols like MCP and A2A are getting pushed as the glue to take business process automation to the next level. Giving agents the power and access they need to accomplish these lofty goals is going to be challen...
Today’s cyber threat actors are capitalizing on organizations’ identity vulnerabilities, such as MFA. Nearly 75% of cloud security failures now result from mismanaged identities, access, and privileges, and the identity attack surface is becoming more challenging to protect as companies expand their cloud environments and supply chains to meet thei...
Generative AI has been the talk of the technology industry for the past 18+ months. Companies are seeing its value, so generative AI budgets are growing. With more and more AI agents expected in the coming years, it’s essential that we are securing how consumers interact with generative AI agents and how developers build AI agents into their apps. ...
Identity continues to be one of the most used attack vectors by cybercriminals. From phishing to credential stuffing to password spraying – threat actors are finding new ways to infiltrate systems and cause costly problems to companies. David Bradbury, Chief Security Officer at Okta, joins Security Weekly's Mandy Logan to discuss today's threat lan...
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