Okta expands Bengaluru operations to secure the new AI-driven identity ecosystem

Okta is deepening its investment in India with a major expansion of its Bengaluru operations, positioning the country as a core engineering hub for building the identity security infrastructure required in the AI era. The company is scaling both its R&D capabilities and physical footprint as organisations globally accelerate deployment of Generative and Agentic AI systems.

The expansion comes at a critical moment for enterprise security. Okta’s latest research shows that while 91% of companies already have AI agents in production, only 10% have a security plan to protect them. Analysts warn that without strong authentication and identity governance, 40% of AI agent deployments could fail by 2027, exposing organisations to new classes of identity and data risks. As non-human identities rapidly multiply across digital environments, identity has become the new control plane of AI adoption.

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