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Okta Launches Cross App Access to Secure AI Interactions

Identity and Access Management

Business Honor
24 June, 2025

Okta's Cross App Access secures AI interactions with centralized control, real-time monitoring, and compliance.

Okta Inc., the identity access management market leader, has launched Cross App Access, a innovative protocol that will protect artificial intelligence (AI) agents while allowing businesses to better see, control, and govern AI-powered interactions. As more and more autonomous actions are conducted by AI agents on a broad range of enterprise applications and data systems, legacy identity standards are lagging behind. These agents often access high-risk data using hard-to-detect, non-deterministic patterns that lack sufficient monitoring, causing potential security risks and compliance problems.

Cross App Access resolves these issues by shifting control of access away from discrete user consents and into the identity provider here, Okta enabling centralized, policy-based management. This eliminates the need for users to continually provide permission for connections between other applications, minimizing workflows and enhancing security. With this new process, IT personnel now have real-time insight into which AI agents are accessing corporate services in the first place. Okta verifies each access request against policies they've established and only issues secure tokens if they're authorized to do so, meaning AI tools are executing under firm enterprise-determined limitations.

For example, instead of a user giving an AI utility explicit permission to access several apps like company messaging or file storage, Cross App Access allows the AI agent to request access from Okta directly. Okta authenticates the request, returns an authenticated token, and has full access visibility. As businesses move at pace to adopt AI, Okta's Cross App Access will become a mission-critical solution to secure the burgeoning environment of AI-fueled integrations. By extending identity access management, the protocol not only adds security and compliance but also provides a more seamless and secure user experience within ever-more automated environments.