Okta, Blueprint Alliance Push Shared Safeguards for Agentic AI Security

Charlotte Wylie, senior vice president and deputy chief security officer at Okta, said the challenge reaches beyond enterprise architecture. Speaking with theCUBE Research’s Krista Case and co-host Rebecca Knight at Okta’s Oktane event during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, Wylie said the industry also needs to communicate its approach to people outside security organizations and technology conferences.

“I’m hoping that some of the messaging that we’ve got out there … about how we’re steering into this bleeds well beyond the conference and well beyond the attendees here,” Wylie said. “Hopefully, they’re going back to their families and saying, ‘Hey, I know how we’re going to do this now.’”

The Blueprint Alliance brings Okta together with the founding members to address agentic AI security as a shared industry problem. Wylie said the group aims to give customers an architecture and a referenceable position for using technology from multiple vendors to secure the entire agentic stack.

“Rather than trying to solve that problem alone, there is a recognition that we have to galvanize as an industry to solve this problem for our customers at a speed that they are scrambling to run after,” Wylie said. “We want to make sure that we provide an architecture, a referenceable position [for] how to use the technology that we all offer in a way that we can secure the entire agentic stack.”

That architecture must give each agent an identity, limit its permissions and provide visibility into its behavior, according to Wylie. Together, those controls allow organizations to detect when an agent deviates from its intended purpose.

“When you can scope the right permissions for an agent and you can govern those permissions effectively with products like Okta for AI Agents and you have the right visibility of how they are performing those actions … you can stop that rogue agent in its tracks,” she said. “This is, I think, how we’re trying to solve for that idea [of] how do you trust an agent in a way that you can use it effectively.”

The interview was part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of Okta’s Oktane event. TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the event, and neither Okta nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.