Identity management vendors like Okta see an opening to calm CISOs worried about agents running amok

The fear of AI agents running amok has thus far halted the wide deployment of these digital workhorses, Okta's president of Auth0, Shiv Ramji, told The Register.

"It is security, privacy concerns like, OK are these systems ready? Do we have the right measures and visibility in place," he said. "Which is kind of the insight that led us to really accelerate and build these products and get to market faster, because we realized that our customers need us to help them."

As AI agents begin punching into work, the complexity of putting guardrails around the digital automatons has held them back, agreed Forrester analyst Andras Cser.

“The bottleneck has been largely authorization management and scalability of deployment,” he said.

This puts identity access management vendors like Okta, Ping Identity, and Microsoft Entra ID in the driver's seat to establish secure, repeatable architectures, Cser and other Forrester analysts ...