Okta fortifies cybersecurity with AI and identity protection

SHAKEEL KHAN
REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENT AND COUNTRY MANAGER, OKTA INDIA

As artificial intelligence rapidly transforms both industry and the threat landscape, businesses face a new era of risk, where advanced threats—including zero-day exploits and intelligent attacks—constantly evolve. The traditional perimeter defense model, static barriers, and legacy firewalls is no longer sufficient to secure a decentralized, multi-cloud environment increasingly populated by non-human identities (NHI) such as AI agents and bots. Addressing this challenge requires a fundamental shift to continuous, adaptive, identity- centric defense strategies.

We are actively leveraging AI to monitor every access attempt in real time, synthesizing risk signals across the ecosystem, and detecting anomalies at machine speed. Solutions such as Okta Identity Threat Protection (ITP) exemplify this approach, allowing security teams to analyze behavioural patterns and contextual factors—from device health to location—to automatically and dynamically enforce Adaptive Authentication. This ensures verification, whether through Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) or biometrics, intensifies precisely when risk is highest, without sacrificing user experience or slowing legitimate innovation.

At Okta, we believe true security depends on trust and governance. As AI advances, addressing privacy, ethics, and compliance is essential. Our approach, built on the principle that AI scales at the speed of trust, focuses on transparent design, strong audit trails, and solutions such as Okta Identity Governance (OIG) to ensure compliance with global and DPDP standards. Partnerships with CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, and Zscaler enable coordinated, context-aware responses, prevent lateral movement, and automate incident response, delivering a unified, adaptive, and auditable Zero Trust framework.