Okta’s CEO is betting big on AI agent identity

Okta, a company that manages login and security across business applications, is facing pressure from AI tools that could let companies build their own management systems instead of paying for Okta's service. CEO Todd McKinnon says the company is responding by adopting AI and LLMs (large language models, which are AI systems trained on massive amounts of text) to stay competitive and secure, and is focusing on a new opportunity: managing the identity and access of AI agents (automated AI systems that can take actions on their own) within corporations, not just human employees.