Okta ships Agent SSO (Cross App Access) to GA for AI agent identity

Okta announced (Aug 24, 2026) general availability of Agent SSO, bringing the open Cross App Access (XAA) standard into production so enterprises can give AI agents scoped, short-lived, centrally governed access to third-party apps instead of shared credentials or blanket OAuth consent.

This is a major identity-provider vendor formalizing agent-to-app authorization as a first-class, auditable control — a foundational primitive for agentic-AI governance that many other vendors (e.g., Jamf) are already building integrations against.

Enterprises deploying AI agents that need to call third-party SaaS/APIs on a user's behalf should evaluate Agent SSO/XAA now as an alternative to static API keys or broad OAuth scopes.