The coming AI agent crisis: Why Okta's new security standard is a must-have for your business

Counting Google, Amazon, and Microsoft among its early adopters, the new standard will provide organizations with more visibility and control over external applications. Here's how it works.

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• IT managers have limited visibility into when users give external apps access to company data.
• When those external apps are AI agents, the security risks multiply by orders of magnitude.
• Okta has proposed a standard to give organizations more visibility and control over those permissions.

By the end of 2026, many of us will have at least one AI-powered agent doing something behind the scenes on our behalf. Within five years, it could be tens or hundreds of agents. They will not only make decisions about what to do (based on their autonomous observations), but they will connect to multiple ...