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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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Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri said the company is "still learning" how to price AI agents. On liability for agent errors, his reported answer opens with a human-in-the-loop principle. That is what buyers have to go on this quarter.
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UK AI minister Kanishka Narayan said on October 12 that government will use frontier AI to find flaws in its systems, after hackathons found over 400 flaws. The fix-time fall from 50 days to eight is credited to a central monitoring service.
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Sublime Security says calendar phishing is growing exponentially as apps like Google Calendar add invites automatically, even from emails sent to spam. That moves the defence from the mail filter to calendar settings and to what staff do with an unexpected meeting.
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Yubico and Okta's survey of 1,890 tech and security professionals found 23% work where multifactor login is not required on every application. With 88% still rating their company secure, at least one respondent in nine gave both answers.
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Yubico and Okta found 43% of 2,000 security professionals log in to work with passwords, while 25% use the hardware passkeys they rate most secure. The people surveyed already know which logins are weak, so closing the gap is deployment work for their employers.
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Island traced fake ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity ad tools to a phishing operation whose Telegram channel took hundreds of victim submissions. Its targets are agency buyers and admins, whose one login can spend several advertisers' balances.
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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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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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