Okta Webinar: Strengthening AI Agent Governance and Shadow AI Control
The article highlights the growing challenges of governing AI agents due to insufficient visibility and outdated controls, emphasizing the need for identity governance frameworks to manage excessive access and shadow AI. It underscores the importance of treating AI agents as first-class identities with proper ownership, permissions, and lifecycle management.
AI agents are moving into production faster than security teams can govern them. They are connecting to apps, handling data, calling APIs, and acting across business systems—often without the same controls applied to human users.
According to Okta’s Global CISO Insights 2026 report, only 47% of CISOs are confident they can identify every AI agent in their environment. Even among those who feel
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