At Oktane, Okta formed a Blueprint Alliance with AWS, CrowdStrike and Salesforce to develop shared safeguards for AI agents accessing enterprise systems: unique identities, least-privilege access, runtime monitoring and emergency controls to disconnect agents.
The framework also calls for common risk signals and standard formats for sharing telemetry across participating tools. Amazon vice president Chet Kapoor described it as a way to avoid vendor lock-in among agents from cloud providers, software vendors and internal teams. He said controls should support rapid deployment without added manual reviews and approval gates.
Okta said its Okta for AI Agents platform has been generally available since April and has released 25 major features since then, including endpoint-agent discovery, an Agent Gateway to control Model Context Protocol (MCP) connections and support for third-party identity providers. Agent SSO, based on open Cross App Access, is available across Okta products at no extra charge; Okta said Claude supports the standard with Okta as its first identity provider. The company cited deployments at Ramp, Yahoo and Dell Technologies. Okta said its internal AI agent Dex is expected to save 250,000 hours this year.
