Aembit Integrates Okta Cross App Access to Streamline AI Agent Authorization
Aembit's IAM platform now supports Okta's Cross App Access protocol, simplifying how enterprise identities authorize AI agents for downstream applications.
Aembit, a specialist in identity and access management (IAM) for AI agents, has announced a significant integration with Okta's Cross App Access (XAA) protocol. This new capability, showcased at Oktane 2026, allows enterprise identities managed by Okta to authorize AI agents for access to various downstream applications without requiring repeated user consent for each connection. This move aims to reduce the authorization burden on end-users and provide security teams with enhanced control over agent activities.
The proliferation of AI agents across enterprise workflows, including collaboration, development, and data platforms, has led to a rapid increase in the number of access relationships that need to be governed. Traditional methods of managing these connections individually create significant operational overhead and a fragmented security posture. XAA addresses this by enabling a single authorization to cover multiple agent-driven connections to approved applications.
Aembit's platform, Aembit IAM for Agentic AI, leverages this protocol to offer verified agent identity, policy-based access enforcement, and comprehensive auditability. By integrating with Okta's XAA, Aembit extends existing Okta policies to these agent-driven interactions, ensuring that security teams can consistently define which agents can act, on whose behalf, and under what specific policies.
"Cross App Access is an important step toward making enterprise identity work for a world where agents increasingly act on behalf of people," stated David Goldschlag, co-founder and CEO of Aembit. "Okta is helping move that model forward, and Aembit makes it practical across the agent access path by connecting user identity, agent identity, and runtime policy in one control point." This partnership allows joint customers to adopt XAA immediately, even as the broader ecosystem matures.
For security leaders, the challenge lies in managing the scale of agentic AI. A single agent might interact with numerous services as part of a task, exponentially increasing the number of access relationships to govern. Aembit's support for XAA aims to centralize this control, reducing authorization sprawl and allowing employees to rely on their existing single sign-on (SSO) credentials for approved agent workflows.
The Aembit platform provides a unified control layer for agent access, preserving accountability by linking user context with the verified identity of the agent. This ensures organizations can clearly identify which agent performed an action, on whose behalf, and under which access policy. This blended identity approach is crucial for maintaining an audit trail and enforcing compliance.
Organizations can adopt XAA incrementally with Aembit, using the protocol where supported while continuing to utilize established OAuth authorization for other services. This flexibility allows for a phased rollout as the ecosystem evolves. Aembit's new Enterprise-Managed Authorization Credential Provider implements the necessary extensions for XAA, operating alongside its existing OAuth capabilities to provide a consistent control layer across diverse environments.
Aembit IAM for Agentic AI is designed to be the central point for controlling access risk from AI agents, automating credential management, and accelerating AI adoption. By providing verified agent identity, policy enforcement, and auditability, Aembit empowers enterprises to confidently manage access to sensitive resources across all their business-critical workloads.