Summary Generative and agentic AI is quickly reimagining security operations. Natural language copilots are providing highly valuable ways to evaluate looming threats, apply breach mitigation, and improve posture. In parallel, agents can be deployed to automate critical runtime tasks at machine speed, such as red teaming, to fight AI with AI. However, bad actors are simultaneously moving from AI-assisted to AI-autonomous campaigns to improve the sophistication and scale of attacks. This illicit activity is also resulting in a dramatic reduction in the time to discovery and exploitation of critical organizational vulnerabilities. Recent highly publicized reports of rogue agents carrying out autonomous, unsanctioned AI-driven attacks are instilling a new sense of…
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Okta held its Showcase event in New York City this week. I had an opportunity to attend the livestream among many of its partners and customers in the famed Rockefeller Plaza to learn more about Okta’s ambitions to capitalize on the need for stronger AI agent security. With a continued theme of summarizing my event attendance with three big takeaways – let’s dive in! An Agentic Blueprint To Secure Enterprises Founder and chief executive Todd McKinnon kicked off Okta Showcase, speaking to the power of agentic AI and what the company is doing broadly with its Okta for AI Agents platform to secure non-human identities and safeguard against its weaponization…





