Okta Platform Keynote: Securing Humans, Machines, and AI Agents at Scale | Oktane
Source: YouTube · Okta · published Sep 24, 2026 · 49:33
Okta's Oktane keynote unveils a two-pillar strategy for the AI era: an agentic control plane and a unified identity security fabric, with real products for securing AI agents, governance, and privileged access.
Key Takeaways:
• Two intertwined pillars: an "agentic control plane" (agentic identity management + security) and a unified platform for humans, agents, and machines—avoiding fragmented point solutions 3:15
• Unverified AI agents pose real risk (Hugging Face breach; Deloitte finds inability to trust agents is a top reason AI deployments stall) 2:01
• Okta for AI Agents answers four questions—where are my agents, what can they do, what are they doing, how do I respond—via Shadow AI Agent Discovery, Agent Gateway (scoped tool access, validated logging), and a "Kill Switch" that instantly revokes rogue agent tokens 8:43
• Identity Governance adds Rogue Account Detection, AI-assisted 48-hour integrations, and Intelligent Request Recommendations; Privileged Access unifies PAM across people, workloads, and agents—extending to databases, Kubernetes, and network devices 25:04
• Closing: consolidate on one Okta platform instead of a dozen identity vendors to cut costs and improve security 48:39
Everything shown is launched or launching by year's start, backed by customers like ADT and partners like ServiceNow.
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This presentation contains forward
looking statements. We reserve the right to change
the information in this presentation. More information
can be found in our security filings. Please welcome Okta’s Chief Product Officer, Ely Khan. Good afternoon everyone. Thank you so much for being here. Earlier today, Todd
introduced the blueprint for the secure agentic enterprise. Today in this keynote,
we're going to show you how we're baking that blueprint
into the Okta platform. But first, since I'm the new guy here,
my first Oktane, a quick background on my journey. I've spent my entire career
at the hardest edges of cybersecurity. At the White House, I helped shape
National Cyber Security policy. I co-founded a startup
that pioneered threat hunting. And at AWS, I built foundational cloud
securit…