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- AI Agent Discovery: Where are my agents? What can they connect to? What can they do?
- Onboarding: How to register agents as first-class identities with assigned human accountability.
- Protecting Connections: Swapping out risky, long-lived static keys for dynamic, short-lived tokens.
- Lifecycle Governance: How to build automated review paths and use the instant kill switch to freeze a rogue agent.
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Is Okta for AI Agents available for free trial/integrator orgs?
Yes, it is possible to enable Okta for AI Agents on free trial / integrator orgs on a trial basis.
The one caveat is that the org must be running Okta Identity Engine (OIE), not classic engine. All new/recent free trial/integrator orgs are on Okta Identity Engine by default, but older orgs could still be running classic engine. You can quickly tell which engine your org is running by checking the version number at the bottom of the screen in the Admin Console. Versions ending in the letter “E” are running Okta Identity Engine. Versions ending in the letter “C” are running classic engine, and would need to be upgraded to OIE before Okta for AI Agents would be supported on the org.
There are a few different options for trials of Okta for AI Agents. I would suggest reaching out to your account team or contacting Okta support to see which option would best suit your needs.
One point of clarification here: You would either need to be an existing Okta customer (so that you have an account team to contact, or would be able to open a ticket with Okta Support), or if you are a prospect in active sales discussions, you can work with your sales rep if you are interested in a POC of Okta for AI Agents.
Does it support any AI agent or are there specific protocols that AI agents has to support to integrate with Okta?
There are a number of components to Okta for AI Agents – from detection, registration, governance, and facilitating/securing agent connectivity to resources. There are no specific requirement/limitations on which Agents can benefit from Okta for AI Agents, but if we focus specifically on securing agent access to resources, there are a couple of things to keep in mind:
I’m hearing a lot about Cross App Access. Is this the same as Okta for AI Agents?
No, Cross-App Access is not the same as Okta for AI Agents. Cross-App Access is a new standard protocol (an extension of the OAuth/OIDC spec) specifically designed for securing Agentic access to resources.
Okta for AI Agents is a broader product offering for detecting, governing, and securing access to and by AI Agents. Okta for AI Agents makes use of Cross-App Access as one of the possible mechanisms for connecting agents to resources, but it is not the only mechanism supported, nor is connecting agents to resources the only capability of Okta for AI Agents.
Would Okta for AI agents allow us to register Google Gemini AI agent? If so which controls would we gain over Google Gemini?
While you technically could register Gemini as an Agent in Okta for AI Agents, you would likely not gain much in terms of actual controls over Gemini. From what I have seen in my own use of Gemini is that it operates internally to Google Workspace and does not access resources outside of its own Google Workspace platform. In such a scenario, registering the agent in Okta for AI Agents would be more about visibility than access control.
Where you would gain access controls would be if the agent needed to connect to resources outside of Google Workspace.
OR, alternately, if Gemini could be configured to access Google Workspace resources via an MCP (i.e. treat Google Workspace as an external resource), then we could broker those resource connections via Okta. But from what I’m aware, this is not currently possible with Gemini.
What are the first steps to migrate our AI agents away from static API keys and over-privileged service accounts?