Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating mission delivery, but it’s also expanding the attack surface with a fast-growing population of AI agents acting on behalf of people, systems, and programs. AI agents can be spun up automatically, granted broad privileges, and forgotten just as quickly, which creates blind spots that adversaries can exploit and complicates compliance with federal risk management objectives.
Government CISOs, CIOs, CAIOs, and privacy and safety leads now face the same core challenge with AI agents that they solved for human users: establishing trustworthy identity as the control point for access, oversight, and accountability. This three-part program explores how agencies can extend a unified identity security approach to AI agents with Okta – without reinventing the playbook. It will address how to protect the crucial access points and data flows between human users, autonomous AI agents, and sensitive government resources, ensuring robust privacy, governance, and policy enforcement in government ecosystems where AI agents are first-class identities.
Securing agentic AI
Across the public sector, AI agents are accelerating services – automating workflows, decisions, and cross-system actions. But as these agents spin up quickly and operate with broad privileges, they can introduce blind spots that expand the attack surface. LaRel Rogers, staff product marketing manager for federal at Okta, explores why making identity the control point for AI agents is essential to improving visibility, enforcing least-privilege access, anomaly detection, and protecting sensitive systems and data.
From shadow agents to accountability: Governing AI in the public sector with an identity security fabric
In this episode of MeriTalking, Nicole Burdette sits down with LaRel Rogers, staff product marketing manager for federal at Okta, to discuss the rise of agentic AI and its impact across government. Together, they explore how autonomous AI agents are transforming mission delivery, along with strategies for protecting critical access points and data flows between human users, AI agents, and sensitive government systems.
Unmask the hidden workforce: Adapting government security for the AI-enabled future
MeriTalk sat down with two leaders at identity security company Okta: Kosta Kalpos, head of global government affairs and public policy, and LaRel Rogers, staff product marketing manager for federal, to discuss how public sector agencies can protect non-human identities, reduce blind spots, and enforce accountability using a unified identity control plane.
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