How to answer the door when the AI agents come knocking

The article discusses how AI agents are driving new IAM challenges and how vendors like Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, and Ping Identity are positioning to provide secure, auditable architectures. Forrester advises minimizing agent permissions, applying continuous risk management, standardizing on a single IAM architecture, and leveraging protocols like MCP, while Okta’s Auth0 for AI Agents offers token vaulting and comprehensive event logging to keep humans-in-the-loop and enforce least privilege. The piece forecasts increased enterprise adoption of AI agents as governance and visibility tools mature, rather than declaring a singular “year of the AI agent.”