Okta Privileged Access Workloads lets CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, cloud workloads, scripts, and AI agents authenticate using platform-signed OIDC tokens or managed API keys. This article explains workload connections, roles, policies, Principal SSH access, and secret retrieval, with a GitHub Actions lab demonstrating both SSH and secret reveal. It also covers static JWKS support for JWT workload connections.
A critical but not anti-AI reflection on costs, productivity, layoffs and human work in 2026. AI is real and useful, but the promise of replacing a team with a cheap monthly subscription is running into economic, technical and organizational limits.
Back from a week in New York, I share how AI is now everywhere: from Times Square billboards to subways, from cafés to the laptops of students and professionals. A journey through advertising, real-world use, and governance risks in the era of AI agents.
EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, NIS2, DORA: four regulatory frameworks, one identity layer. How Okta’s O4AA blueprint maps to every compliance requirement before the August 2026 deadline.
Protocol-level deep dive into the four Okta for AI Agents access patterns: ID-JAG token structure, sequence diagrams, audit log examples, and step-by-step Okta configuration for XAA, STS, PSK, and Service Account.
A strategic overview of the four access patterns for AI agent integrations — XAA, STS, PSK, Service Account — with a comparison matrix, decision framework, and migration roadmap. Companion deep dive covers protocol details and Okta configuration.
Okta’s Showcase 2026 unveils the Agentic Enterprise Blueprint: a comprehensive framework to discover, govern, and secure AI agents as first-class identities, addressing the emerging shadow AI crisis and regulatory compliance requirements.
Set up an Okta MCP Server lab for AI-assisted administration using Docker Compose or native install, with practical examples for Claude, Gemini, and VS Code workflows.
