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Okta adds AI agent runtime gateway, forms Blueprint Alliance with AWS and CrowdStrike

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Okta has formed the Blueprint Alliance, a multivendor security framework initiative, with Amazon Web Services and 10 other technology companies.

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Identity and access management company Okta Inc. used the opening day of its Oktane conference in Las Vegas today to announce runtime enforcement and a wider kill switch for its Okta for AI Agents platform. Okta also joined 11 other vendors, among them Amazon Web Services Inc., CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. and Google Cloud, in forming the Blueprint Alliance. The group is reworking the agent security framework Okta first published in March into an open, multivendor reference architecture. The product additions are aimed at agents that end up with more access than anyone intended. An employee who links an AI assistant to everyday tools can give it a path into sensitive systems without realizing it, Okta said. If that person later leaves, nothing stops the agent from running on in the background, ungoverned. "The challenge businesses face is the same access that makes agents powerful also makes them dangerous," said Ric Smith, president of products and technology at Okta. The runtime piece is Agent Gateway, which sits in the execution path between an agent and the tools it calls, enforcing policy and logging each interaction as it happens. Okta's existing visibility comes from agent events captured in its System Log, which customers stream to security information and event management systems for review after the fact. The gateway is also where the kill switch is headed...

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