Okta and 11 Tech Giants Form Blueprint Alliance to Secure AI Agents Across Enterprise Systems

Quick Facts

• Okta and 11 co-founders including AWS, CrowdStrike, Google Cloud, and Salesforce launched the Blueprint Alliance on September 22, 2026, releasing an open multi-vendor reference architecture for AI agent security.
• Gartner predicts the average Fortune 500 enterprise will run more than 150,000 AI agents by 2028, up from fewer than 15 in 2025, yet only 13% of organizations say they have adequate governance in place today.
• Okta made Agent SSO generally available on August 24, 2026, giving AI agents a first-class identity model within its core SSO plans at no added cost.

Twelve technology companies have joined forces to address one of enterprise software's fastest-growing security problems: AI agents operating across systems with little oversight and inconsistent controls.

Okta, Amazon Web Services, CrowdStrike, Databricks, Docker, Google Cloud, Lovable, Proofpoint, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Wiz, and Zscaler announced the Blueprint Alliance on September 22, 2026. The group published an open, multi-vendor reference architecture for securing AI agents across enterprise environments. GE Appliances and World Central Kitchen joined as strategic advisors, stress-testing the approach against industrial and humanitarian operations.

Wiz, which Google acquired in March 2026 for $32 billion, is also a founding member, giving Google two seats at the table.

The coalition's formation came at Okta's Oktane 2026 conference in Las Vegas, where CEO Todd McKinnon made the case for industry-wide coordination. "Agents need deep, broad, persistent access to systems to deliver value," McKinnon said. "The challenge is doing that securely, at scale. We must eliminate the tradeoff between security and innovation."

The numbers behind the push are stark. According to Blueprint Alliance data, 92% of organizations already use autonomous AI agents, but only 34% secure them with the same rigor applied to human users. Gartner projects that by 2027, 40% of enterprises will demote or shut down AI agents after governance failures discovered in production.

Charlotte Wylie, Okta's SVP and Deputy CSO, described the problem as one no single vendor can solve. "AI agents are introducing hidden, privileged access that is incredibly difficult to govern," she said. "Rather than trying to solve that problem alone, there is a recognition that we have to galvanize as an industry."

The Blueprint Alliance's reference architecture targets four questions every enterprise should be able to answer: Where are my agents? What can they do? What are they doing? How do I respond? Member companies aligned on six shared principles: treat every agent as a first-class identity, scope access to the specific task, keep delegation traceable, monitor runtime behavior continuously, and enable instant and reversible containment.

Okta's own product lineup reflects the urgency. The company made Agent SSO generally available on August 24, 2026. The feature establishes a formal identity model for AI agents at the point of connection and is included in standard Okta SSO plans at no extra charge. Okta's Cross App Access standard now supports native integrations across more than 25 major cloud, developer, and enterprise SaaS platforms, reaching the company's base of more than 20,000 customers.

Okta President and COO Eric Kelleher framed the core requirement simply: "Every agent needs to be treated as a first-class identity; access needs to be scoped to a specific task."

Analysts see identity as the linchpin of the entire effort. Krista Case of theCUBE Research said enterprises will need "dynamic authorization tied to business context, delegated authority and intent, plus the ability to reconstruct not only what an agent did, but why it was permitted to do it." Gartner analyst Shiva Varma warned that treating agent trust as a binary choice between locked down and fully trusted is the primary source of governance failures today.

The market context gives the alliance clear commercial motivation. The global AI agents market is projected to reach between $10.9 billion and $12.06 billion in 2026, growing at an annual rate of 44% to 46%. With Gartner forecasting agent counts inside large enterprises to multiply by roughly 10,000 times in three years, the security infrastructure built now will shape how that expansion unfolds.

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