Analysis ·
Oktane '26 brings clarity to AI agent identity security
Original title, in French: “Oktane '26 apporte de la clarté à la sécurité de l’identité des agents d’IA”
- Publication
- LeMagIT (France) · subscribers only
- Author
- Todd Thiemann
- Published on
- 1 October 2026 · read in the page structured data
Summary
At its Oktane 2026 conference, Okta unveiled several announcements aimed at securing the identity of AI agents in the enterprise: the Blueprint Alliance, a cross-industry reference architecture; the XAA protocol, turned into the Agent SSO product; and Okta for AI Agents, which treats agents as identities in their own right, with discovery via CrowdStrike and Zscaler. According to analyst Todd Thiemann (Omdia), AI agents are a high or top priority for 82% of the companies surveyed, but uncertainty about security risks is holding back investment. The article also discusses the proliferation of agent gateways and the resilience of identity providers, citing several market players (Semperis, Cayosoft, Cohesity, Veeam). 2026 is presented as the year of pilots, and 2027 as the year of production deployments.
Summary based on the full text of the article.
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82 %
share of companies for which AI agents are a high or top priority
companies surveyed by Omdia
« Les recherches d’Omdia ont montré que les agents d’IA sont une priorité élevée ou principale pour 82 % des entreprises »
Source: Omdia
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42 %
share of companies with multiple identity providers (IdPs)
companies surveyed by Omdia
« La recherche d’Omdia a révélé que 42 % des entreprises disposaient de plusieurs IdP »
Source: Omdia
Classification
- Country
- Worldwide scope
- Company size
- All sizes
- Industries
- Software vendors, IT services companies, telecoms · All industries, or industry not specified
- Companies
- Cayosoft (supplier), Netskope (supplier), CrowdStrike (supplier), Commvault (supplier), Okta (supplier), Veeam (supplier), Hugging Face (cited), Palo Alto Networks (supplier), Omdia (study author), Rubrik (supplier), Permiso Security (cited), Druva (supplier), Cohesity (supplier), OpenAI (cited), Anthropic (cited), Zscaler (supplier), Semperis (supplier)
- Keywords
- agentic AI, identity security, Okta, agent governance, identity provider, cybersecurity
Entry written by Marsanne Studio from the cited article, with the help of an AI model (claude-sonnet-5). The rights to the article and its illustrations belong to LeMagIT and its author. Entry translated from French by Claude Sonnet 5.5.