Securely scale your agentic enterprise with the AI Identity Maturity Model

Hello Okta Community! 👋

The autonomous AI workforce is here, with 91% of organizations already utilizing AI agents throughout their environments. While these agents can unlock significant productivity gains, they also expand your attack surface with new risks like hardcoded credentials, lateral movement, and compliance gaps.

Traditional security models built for humans simply can’t keep up with agents operating at machine speed. To help your teams scale safely, we’re excited to share our latest whitepaper: A Guide to Agentic AI Identity Maturity. Built upon Zero Trust principles, the guide offers a progressive roadmap to advance your security posture, maintain compliance, and enable AI-driven innovation.

The four stages of agentic AI identity maturity:

Stage 1 - Foundational: Establishing visibility and control

The first step is to bring “shadow AI” into the light by creating a centralized registry that ties every agent to a human owner. This builds a single audit trail for compliance and quick incident response.

Stage 2 - Scaling: Standardizing protection and basic automation

Eliminate secret sprawl by replacing hardcoded API keys with policy-driven, short-lived tokens. Automate provisioning to ensure a consistent security posture across all systems.

Stage 3 - Advanced: Automating continuous governance

Shift to automated lifecycle workflows that are built for machine speed. Enforce least-privilege access and automatically decommission agents the moment their human owner leaves the organization.

Stage 4 - Strategic: Enforcing dynamic, risk-aware controls

Enforce true Zero Trust by evaluating real-time contexts. Instantly deploy threat response if anomalous behavior is detected.

For each of the four maturity phases, the guide breaks down:

• Identity challenges
• Actions to take and their business benefits
• Supporting Okta features

👉 Download the full whitepaper today to evaluate your maturity and build your roadmap to secure AI innovation.

Where is your organization on its AI maturity journey? Let us know in the comments below!