Old security challenges, new AI risks: Managing authorization in a complex ecosystem

Driving industry alignment for a secure future

Industry leaders like Automation Anywhere, AWS, Boomi, Box, Glean, Google Cloud, Grammarly, Miro, Salesforce, and WRITER plan to support Cross App Access, recognizing the need for secure, transparent AI agent interactions across enterprise applications.

"As autonomous AI agents take on increasingly complex tasks across mission-critical operations, from finance and compliance to customer service, enterprises need full visibility and governance over every interaction between agents, models, and tools," said Adi Kuruganti, Chief Product Officer, Automation Anywhere. "Cross App Access provides a critical new standard for building the trust required to securely scale these powerful capabilities across the enterprise."

Securing every identity from humans to agents

Okta's vision is to build an identity security fabric that secures every identity - human, non-human, and AI agents - across all systems and applications, before, during, and after authentication. To make agents "fabric ready," XAA is planned to soon be available with out-of-the-box support in Auth0, enabling B2B SaaS developers to build applications and AI tools that can natively participate in the protocol. It is also planned to be available within the Okta Platform fabric, providing organizations with a way to enforce policies that govern how those agents interact across the enterprise.

Securing this age-old problem, now magnified by agentic AI, isn't something one organization can solve alone. It requires collective responsibility, industry-wide collaboration, and alignment around open standards to create secure ecosystems capable of keeping up with evolving technologies and threats.