“Everybody's under pressure to do more with less” - Why Okta says you need an AI agent governance strategy, and sooner rather than later

AI agents are all the rage - in fact, a recent study confirmed 96% of European businesses reported using or planning to use AI agents by 2026.

AI agents inherently need a whole host of permissions to be able to act on a user’s behalf; everything from your calendar to payment details, and even potentially sensitive company information.

That leaves the potential for that access to fall into the wrong hands, or even for an AI agent to ‘go rogue’ and carry out tasks you didn’t approve of. There’s a lot of pressure all round to adopt AI agents as companies across the globe bid to become more productive - but many are doing so before putting proper guard rails in place.