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Okta is an identity and access management company offering cloud-based single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and identity governance for enterprises.
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Okta's forward earnings multiple went from about 18x to about 50x in five months while its full-year EPS guide rose about 2%. That ties the price as much to investors' view of AI security stocks as to Okta's own forward bookings.
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AWS's CloudWatch Omni, generally available since September 23, lets Okta and Entra ID users investigate incidents without AWS console access. CloudWatch dashboard sharing has let outsiders view prebuilt graphs since 2020, so what Omni adds is the investigation itself, one of the reasons teams paid for third-party platforms.
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Okta's Katie Nickels says fake remote IT workers now operate from Pakistan, India and Russia as well as North Korea, mixing AI with human techniques. That moves the first security check on a new employee into the hiring process.
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Agentic AI Foundation's September 28 MCP release finalizes stateless servers and bars removing deprecated features before July 2027. Teams moving servers off sessions now have a dated floor to plan migrations against.
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Okta has gathered a dozen-odd technology companies into the Blueprint Alliance to write open security and interoperability standards for AI agents. The standards are still unwritten, and the six principles published so far are identity-management rules, the category Okta sells.
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Australia's Signals Directorate says attackers are using stolen AI API keys, tokens and hijacked sessions to get into organisations' AI services. Its guidance tells customers to protect those credentials themselves. In one reported case, a stolen key ran up about US$600,000 in model credits over three weeks.
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SOCRadar tied 5,434 infostealer records for AI tools to 1,500 corporate email addresses at 482 large enterprises. The report says those AI accounts belong under the same sign-on and session controls as a company's identity provider and code repositories.
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SOCRadar found captured ChatGPT sessions at 358 of the 482 companies whose AI accounts turned up in 90 days of infostealer logs. The firm ties the spread to shadow AI, with employees opening work-email accounts that IT never sees.
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Okta and 11 vendors including AWS, Google Cloud and CrowdStrike signed six shared principles for securing AI agents under a new Blueprint Alliance. Buyers can put the list to vendors in procurement now, while Okta's release describes a reference architecture with no stated way to test compliance.
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Unit 42 reports endpoint alerts tied to collaboration tools more than quadrupled in 12 months, with 99% linked to chat phishing. Most controls still watch email and logins, not authenticated sessions.
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A ReliaQuest employee gave up a password and an MFA push five days after the company named the .claims campaign. Device trust, not training, kept the session worthless.
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More than 100 companies signed a call for collective action on cyber defence whose first principle is that status quo security will not be enough, a sentence co-signed by five of the vendors who supply that status quo.
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Huskeys closed $27m five months after leaving stealth, with Blackstone leading what Globes calls the firm's first early-stage cybersecurity round. The cheque is worth about 0.002% of its assets.
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The distributor found the intrusion on August 25, 2026, the same day ShinyHunters says its four-day exfiltration ended. It has not named the vendor applications involved, so customers are left scoping their own integrations.
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DDoSecrets published filesystem images taken from a working Flock ALPR camera. The Android build inside them carries a hard-coded API key and a security patch level seven years older than the build itself.
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Agent Gateway enforces policy on each tool call and logs it as it happens, while deactivating an agent in the console today only blocks new sessions. Okta says revoking live tokens and cutting sessions in flight is planned.
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CoreWeave says key custody is what keeps enterprise AI projects sitting in security review, so its new encryption service leaves the key in tooling the customer already runs and takes the provider off the decrypt list.
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A dev.to post on healthtech workspace joining argues that DNS TXT challenges and mailbox confirmations prove different things, and the Go example it ships bounds DNS freshness at 24 hours while leaving the mailbox proof undated.
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SAML's security rests on XML signature validation, and most fielded implementations hand that job to libxmlsec. Trail of Bits says that dependency is the reason to deprecate the protocol and move SSO to OpenID Connect.
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Agent SSO went generally available on August 24 at no extra cost inside core Okta SSO, registering Cross App Access agents in Universal Directory and issuing short-lived tokens. Discovering unregistered agents takes a separate subscription.
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