Non-Human & AI Agent Identity — The fastest-growing identity risk
Service accounts, machine tokens, and agentic AI systems now outnumber human users in most enterprise environments. Governing them with the same rigor as people is the next frontier of Zero Trust.
45×
more non-human identities than human identities in the average enterprise — most unmanaged
CyberArk Identity Security Threat Landscape 2024
Key use cases
What this solves
Agentic AI authorization & access governance
As AI agents take autonomous actions on behalf of users — browsing, coding, executing workflows — their access must be scoped, audited, and revocable in real time.
- →OAuth 2.0 client credentials for AI agent authentication
- →Fine-grained scopes limiting what each agent can access
- →Token lifetime controls and automatic expiry
- →Audit trails for every agent action via Okta System Log
Service account lifecycle management
Legacy service accounts with static, never-expiring passwords are one of the most exploited vectors in enterprise breaches. Eliminate them.
- →Automated service account discovery and inventory
- →Secrets rotation on a defined schedule
- →Okta Privileged Access for vault-based credential issuance
- →Just-in-time (JIT) privilege elevation for service tasks
Workload & machine-to-machine (M2M) identity
Containerized workloads, CI/CD pipelines, and microservices need identity too. Issue short-lived tokens — never static credentials.
- →OAuth 2.0 client credentials for M2M token issuance
- →Kubernetes workload identity integration
- →GitHub Actions OIDC token federation
- →Short-lived token issuance (15-min TTL best practice)
Non-human identity discovery & posture
You can't secure what you can't see. Surface all service accounts, API keys, and tokens across your environment — then enforce policy.
- →Cross-environment NHI inventory (cloud, on-prem, SaaS)
- →Risk scoring for stale, over-privileged accounts
- →Policy-based alerts for anomalous machine behavior
- →Integration with Okta's SIEM and SOAR connectors
Okta capabilities
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Okta Privileged Access
Vault-based secrets management, just-in-time privilege elevation, and session recording for high-value service accounts and infrastructure.
API Access Management
OAuth 2.0 authorization server for M2M tokens — define scopes, set token lifetimes, and enforce API access policies at scale.
Okta Service Accounts
Discover, manage, and rotate credentials for non-human identities across on-prem and cloud environments.
Okta Workflows
No-code automation for identity events — trigger credential rotation, access revocation, and alert escalation automatically.
System Log & SIEM Integration
Every non-human authentication event logged and exportable to Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Chronicle, and more.
Okta Auth for GenAI
Purpose-built identity primitives for AI agent authorization — token issuance, scope enforcement, and audit for LLM-powered apps.
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