Okta and Google Cloud are expanding their strategic partnership to integrate their respective strengths in identity management, cloud, and productivity solutions. This will help their shared customers enhance the security and resilience of their entire workforce as they leverage AI. Through new integrations between Okta and the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and Chrome Enterprise, they will extend advanced enterprise-grade security and identity governance to AI agents while protecting users, access, and devices in browser-based operations.
As companies deploy more AI agents and integrate AI into their daily workflows, the ability to secure and control AI agents in the same way that human identities are managed is becoming increasingly important. At the same time, organizations must evolve their internal security architectures to reflect the fact that modern business is increasingly shifting to browser-based systems. The urgency of this effort is evident in the following situations today:
As AI becomes ingrained in the workplace and the modern work environment evolves rapidly, 92% of executives report that they are using AI agents at a medium or widespread scale, yet only 34% of organizations apply the same level of security management to AI agents as they do to humans.
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Identity-targeting attacks, such as session hijacking, are on the rise: there has been an increase in cases where attackers steal “post-authentication” session exchange tokens stored in browsers, up 127% year-on-year.
Concerns about platform flexibility and interoperability are growing: 62% of IT leaders view vendor lock-in, over-reliance on a specific vendor, as a strategic risk.
SOURCE: PRTimes


