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Okta for AI Agents vs Zenity

Okta for AI Agents

Okta offering that gives AI agents a first-class identity so organizations can discover, onboard, protect, and govern them

Zenity AI Agent Security & Governance Platform

Security and governance platform for AI agents, aimed at security teams

Short answer

Okta says Okta for AI Agents gives AI agents a first-class identity; Zenity is a security and governance platform for AI agents.⁠Source 1, Source 2 Okta lets admins define what each agent can access, with an MCP gateway in preview; Zenity says it catalogs agents and can block actions on Copilot Studio, Microsoft Foundry, and coding agents.⁠Source 3, Source 4, Source 5, Source 6

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Where each one sits

Six layers of running AI agents at a company, and what each product’s own public sources say it covers.

These aren’t the same kind of product

Where they overlap
Okta keeps an inventory of agents from many platforms, can cut an agent off, and logs agent events; Zenity says it does too.⁠Source 5, Source 7, Source 8, Source 9, Source 10
Where they differ
Okta says it gives agents an identity and credentials, and admins set their resource access; Zenity says it can check agent actions against rules and catch what slips through.⁠Source 1, Source 3, Source 10, Source 11, Source 12
Running both
Zenity says its rules can use Okta attributes that describe the person behind an action, such as role and department.⁠Source 10
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Okta for AI Agents

  • Build agents: Not publicly documented
  • Host and run agents: Not publicly documented
  • Identity and access: OfferedAgent identity and credentials⁠Source 13
  • Registry and governance: OfferedUniversal Directory with human owners⁠Source 11
  • Traffic between agents, tools, and models: PreviewAgent Gateway for MCP tools⁠Source 4
  • Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented

Zenity

  • Build agents: Not publicly documented
  • Host and run agents: Not publicly documented
  • Identity and access: Not publicly documented
  • Registry and governance: OfferedAI Observability agent inventory⁠Source 5
  • Traffic between agents, tools, and models: OfferedTool-call blocking for coding agents⁠Source 14
  • Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented

At a glance

TopicOkta for AI AgentsZenity
What it isOkta says it gives AI agents an identity in Universal Directory, alongside workforce users.⁠Source 1, Source 11A SaaS security and governance platform for AI agents, which Zenity aims at security teams.⁠Source 2, Source 12
Agents it coversOkta says it manages agents from any vendor.⁠Source 15 It can import agents from apps such as Salesforce Agentforce, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Microsoft Copilot Studio.⁠Source 16Zenity says it covers agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio, ChatGPT Enterprise, and Salesforce Agentforce, homegrown agents, and coding agents such as Cursor.⁠Source 5, Source 14
Where it runsAs a subscription on an Okta org.⁠Source 17 Agent Gateway, in preview, has an Okta-hosted URL.⁠Source 18Software as a service, shown on AWS Marketplace as deployed on AWS.⁠Source 2
Pricing modelA separate subscription that can be added to an Okta suite plan.⁠Source 1, Source 19 A list price is not publicly documented.Custom pricing by private offer on its main AWS Marketplace listing.⁠Source 2 A separate Security Hub Extended listing shows usage prices.⁠Source 20
Available sinceOkta announced general availability in a post dated 29 April 2026.⁠Source 7 Okta says customers can request Agent Gateway, in preview, as a research release.⁠Source 15Zenity announced Azure Marketplace (now Microsoft Marketplace) availability in March 2025 and AWS in January 2026.⁠Source 21, Source 22, Source 23

What each one is

Okta for AI Agents

Okta for AI Agents is an Okta product, sold as a separate subscription, to discover, manage, and secure the AI agent lifecycle in an Okta org.⁠Source 1, Source 24 Okta says agents are registered in Universal Directory alongside workforce users; admins can define which resources each can access.⁠Source 3, Source 11

Zenity AI Agent Security & Governance Platform

Zenity is a security and governance platform for AI agents, spanning SaaS, homegrown cloud platforms, and end-user devices.⁠Source 2 Zenity says AI Observability catalogs agents and Runtime Boundaries can check agent actions against your rules.⁠Source 5, Source 10 It is delivered as software as a service.⁠Source 2

The differences that matter

  1. How agents get on the list

    Okta for AI Agents

    Custom-built agents can be registered by hand and builder-platform agents imported; Okta ISPM, in the full SKU, discovers agents from several sources.⁠Source 11, Source 25, Source 26

    Zenity

    Zenity says AI Observability scans the environment, catalogs agents with their permissions and tool access, and flags agents outside sanctioned deployment channels.⁠Source 5

    Okta’s Core SKU for regulated environments excludes ISPM.⁠Source 26, Source 27

  2. What each one controls

    Okta for AI Agents

    In Okta, admins set which resources each agent can access; agent-to-agent tokens are scoped to one resource and expire.⁠Source 3, Source 28

    Zenity

    Runtime Boundaries can check agent actions in real time; Zenity says it can block actions only on Copilot Studio, Microsoft Foundry, and coding agents.⁠Source 6, Source 10

    Okta says its Agent Gateway, in preview, also checks each tool call made through it.⁠Source 15 Issuing agent identities isn’t in Zenity’s public docs.

  3. Agents calling other agents

    Okta for AI Agents

    Okta says admins set which agents may call others; it checks each token request, grants resource-scoped tokens that expire, and logs the delegation chain.⁠Source 15, Source 28, Source 29

    Zenity

    Zenity says its detection and response module shows requests and responses passed between agents and tracks agent handoffs.⁠Source 30

    Okta for AI Agents’ docs don’t mention the A2A protocol. Whether Zenity supports A2A isn’t publicly documented.

For security teams

What a security review asks, answered from each vendor’s public documentation.

TopicOkta for AI AgentsZenity
Network exposureWhether agents need an inbound endpoint is not publicly documented. Agent Gateway, in preview, has an Okta-hosted URL.⁠Source 18Delivered as SaaS on AWS, per its AWS Marketplace listing.⁠Source 2 Monitored agents’ network needs aren’t in Zenity’s public docs.
IdentityManually added agents identify with a client ID, secret, key pair, or metadata document; agent-to-agent tokens are resource-scoped and expire.⁠Source 13, Source 28Zenity says rules can reference Okta attributes such as role.⁠Source 10 Issuing agent identities isn’t in Zenity’s public docs.
Access changes and revocationOkta says deactivating an agent immediately blocks new sessions; removing a resource connection denies future access requests to it.⁠Source 9, Source 31Zenity says its kill switch immediately disables an agent’s tool and data access.⁠Source 10 It says rules can shut agents down.⁠Source 10
Audit trailAgent events land in Okta’s System Log; log streaming sends them to Amazon EventBridge or Splunk Cloud.⁠Source 24, Source 32Zenity says it logs agent messages and tool calls, and can stream audit log events to Splunk or Microsoft Sentinel.⁠Source 5, Source 33
ComplianceOkta says the company holds SOC 2 and ISO 27001; its Core SKU is generally available for FedRAMP and HIPAA.⁠Source 27, Source 34Zenity says it has SOC 2 Type II, is ISO 27001 compliant, and announced FedRAMP “In Process” in March 2026.⁠Source 35, Source 36

Full comparison

18 criteria in five groups. Every cell links to its source, or says no public source answers it.

Okta for AI Agents and Zenity compared on 18 criteria
Okta for AI AgentsZenity
What it is
What it is and who it’s forAn Okta product to discover, manage, and secure the AI agent lifecycle in an Okta org; Okta says it gives agents a first-class identity.⁠Source 1, Source 24Zenity says it covers agent decisions before, during, and after they happen, across SaaS, homegrown cloud platforms, and end-user devices, for security teams.⁠Source 2, Source 12
MaturityOkta announced GA in a post dated 29 April 2026.⁠Source 7 On 22 July 2026, Okta said customers could request Agent Gateway, in preview.⁠Source 15Zenity announced Azure Marketplace (now Microsoft Marketplace) availability in March 2025 and AWS in January 2026.⁠Source 21, Source 22, Source 23
Control
Agent registry and discoveryAgents are added by hand or imported from builder platforms.⁠Source 25 Okta says they sit in Universal Directory and can be given human owners.⁠Source 7, Source 11Zenity says AI Observability scans and catalogs agents in SaaS platforms, custom builds, and on laptops, with their permissions and tool access.⁠Source 5
Identity and access controlAn agent added by hand identifies with a client ID, secret, key pair, or metadata document.⁠Source 13 Admins set the resources each agent can access.⁠Source 3Zenity says Boundaries rules can reference Okta attributes such as active status, role, and department.⁠Source 10 Issuing agent identities isn’t in Zenity’s public docs.
Ownership, policy, and revocationAgents added by hand take optional owners, up to five individuals.⁠Source 13 Okta says admins can deactivate an agent and set which agents may call others.⁠Source 9, Source 15Zenity says rules can allow an action, block it, or shut the agent down, but it blocks inline only on Copilot Studio, Microsoft Foundry, and coding agents.⁠Source 6, Source 10
Audit log and observabilityAgent events land in Okta’s System Log, which can stream to Amazon EventBridge or Splunk Cloud.⁠Source 24, Source 32 Okta says agent-to-agent delegation chains are logged.⁠Source 29Zenity says it logs agent messages, tool calls, retrievals, and handoffs.⁠Source 5 It says its audit log events can stream to Splunk or Microsoft Sentinel.⁠Source 33
Connection
How agents connectOkta issues agent-to-agent tokens, and the caller sends its token to the agent it calls.⁠Source 17, Source 28 Agent Gateway, in preview, can be an agent’s remote MCP endpoint.⁠Source 18Zenity says agents emitting OpenTelemetry or gen_ai spans can connect, with an Evaluate API for inline enforcement; coding agents can use hooks.⁠Source 14, Source 33
Agents across organizationsNot publicly documented (checked 2 October 2026)Not in Zenity’s public docs; its product docs require a login (checked 2 October 2026)⁠Source 37
Protocol supportMCP servers as agent resources; Agent Gateway for MCP tools is in preview.⁠Source 3, Source 4 Okta for AI Agents’ docs don’t mention the A2A protocol.Zenity says custom agents can connect by emitting OpenTelemetry or gen_ai spans.⁠Source 33 Whether Zenity supports A2A isn’t publicly documented.
Frameworks, models, and clouds supportedOkta says it manages agents from any vendor, agents built in-house with code such as Python or LangChain, and agents in purchased software.⁠Source 1, Source 15, Source 16Zenity says it blocks inline on Copilot Studio, Microsoft Foundry, and coding agents; elsewhere, such as Agentforce, it offers detection and posture only.⁠Source 6
Operations
Deployment options and data residencyA subscription on an Okta org.⁠Source 17 Agent Gateway, in preview, has an Okta-hosted URL.⁠Source 18 Product-specific regions and data residency are not publicly documented.Software as a service, deployed on AWS per its AWS Marketplace listing.⁠Source 2 Hosting regions and self-hosting aren’t in Zenity’s public docs.
Compliance attestationsOkta says the company holds SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 27001 certifications.⁠Source 34 It says its Core SKU is generally available for FedRAMP and HIPAA environments.⁠Source 26, Source 27Zenity says the company holds SOC 2 Type II certification and is ISO 27001 compliant.⁠Source 35 It announced FedRAMP “In Process” status in March 2026.⁠Source 36
Support and SLAOkta suites include online support 24 hours a day, five days a week; Premier Success Plans are sold separately.⁠Source 19Zenity’s terms commit to at least 99.9% monthly uptime, with commercially reasonable efforts.⁠Source 38 Support requests go through Zendesk in business hours.⁠Source 38
Time and effort to get runningNeeds an Okta org subscribed to the product.⁠Source 17 Okta lists prebuilt integrations with Salesforce Agentforce, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and ServiceNow AI Platform.⁠Source 7Zenity says it has custom-agent guides for Cribl, LiteLLM, and Kong, and a Cursor plugin.⁠Source 33, Source 39 Prerequisites aren’t in Zenity’s public docs.
Pricing model and public pricesOkta says it is a separate subscription, which its pricing page lists as an add-on to suite plans.⁠Source 1, Source 19 A list price is not publicly documented.Main AWS Marketplace listing: custom pricing by private offer.⁠Source 2 A Security Hub Extended listing shows usage prices per resource and per million tokens.⁠Source 20
Building
Agent building toolsNot publicly documented (checked 2 October 2026)Not in Zenity’s public docs; its product docs require a login (checked 2 October 2026)⁠Source 37
Model accessNot publicly documented (checked 2 October 2026)Zenity says its threat detection combines rules mapped to OWASP LLM and MITRE ATLAS with LLM-based detections.⁠Source 30 The models used aren’t in Zenity’s public docs.
Integrations and ecosystemImports agents from Salesforce Agentforce, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Copilot Studio, and more.⁠Source 16 Okta lists Slack and Notion among Cross App Access apps.⁠Source 1Zenity says its signals can show in Microsoft Agent 365 and findings in AWS Security Hub Extended; it is on the Cursor Marketplace.⁠Source 39, Source 40, Source 41

Which to choose

Choose Okta for AI Agents if

  • You want agents registered in Okta, which Okta says puts them alongside workforce users, with optional human owners.⁠Source 11, Source 13
  • You want to control which agents may call other agents, with Okta issuing resource-scoped tokens that expire.⁠Source 15, Source 28
  • You want access requests and certifications for agents, which Okta’s docs say use Okta Identity Governance, an add-on on Okta’s pricing page.⁠Source 19, Source 42
  • You need FedRAMP or HIPAA environments: Okta says its Core SKU is generally available for both, and the full SKU for HIPAA.⁠Source 11, Source 27

Choose Zenity if

  • You want posture policies that Zenity says can alert, block, or remediate automatically across the agents it finds.⁠Source 5, Source 43
  • You want the rule checks Zenity says it runs on agent actions, blocking inline on Copilot Studio, Microsoft Foundry, and coding agents.⁠Source 6, Source 10
  • You need the boundaries Zenity says it enforces on coding agents, such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor.⁠Source 14
  • You want findings in AWS Security Hub Extended, or runtime risk signals in Microsoft Agent 365, which Zenity says it supports.⁠Source 40, Source 41

Questions buyers ask

Can either one find agents nobody registered?

Zenity says its AI Observability scans an organization’s environment, catalogs agents, and flags those outside sanctioned deployment channels.⁠Source 5 Okta’s ISPM discovers shadow agents in managed browsers, with endpoint discovery in early access; the Core SKU for regulated environments excludes ISPM.⁠Source 26, Source 27, Source 44

Do they support MCP and A2A?

Okta can grant agents MCP-protected resources; its Agent Gateway for MCP tools is in preview.⁠Source 3, Source 4 Zenity says its agent hooks can block a coding agent’s dangerous tool call.⁠Source 14 Okta for AI Agents’ docs don’t mention the A2A protocol. Whether Zenity supports A2A isn’t publicly documented.

How is each one priced?

Okta says Okta for AI Agents is a separate subscription.⁠Source 1 Its list price is not publicly documented. Zenity’s main AWS Marketplace listing is by private offer; a Security Hub Extended listing shows usage prices and a 30-day free trial.⁠Source 2, Source 20

Can either one connect agents across organizations?

Okta’s docs describe agents in the customer’s own org, and Zenity says it scans an organization’s environment.⁠Source 5, Source 24 Reaching agents that another organization owns, with access that organization controls, is not publicly documented for either.

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  1. Source 1: Okta brings first-class identity to AI agents with Agent SSO Okta · checked Back:abcdefghij

  2. Source 2: AWS Marketplace: Zenity Zenity · checked Back:abcdefghijk

  3. Source 3: AI agent resource connections (Okta Help Center) Okta · checked Back:abcdefg

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  5. Source 5: AI Observability | See Every Agent, Know What it Touches | Zenity Zenity · checked Back:abcdefghijkl

  6. Source 6: Zenity's Coverage of the 2026 OWASP Top 10 for LLM Apps Zenity · checked Back:abcde

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  9. Source 9: New Okta for AI Agents innovations increase visibility into agent behavior, secure connections at runtime, and enforce continuous agent governance Okta · checked Back:abc

  10. Source 10: Runtime Boundaries | The Runtime Boundary for Autonomous AI | Zenity Zenity · checked Back:abcdefghijk

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  12. Source 12: Platform | AI Agent Security & Governance Platform | Zenity Zenity · checked Back:abc

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  17. Source 17: Set up AI agent token exchange (Okta Developer) Okta · checked Back:abcd

  18. Source 18: Add an Agent Gateway (Okta Help Center) Okta · checked Back:abcd

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  20. Source 20: AWS Marketplace: Zenity AI Security & Governance Platform for Security Hub Extended Zenity · checked Back:abc

  21. Source 21: Zenity Now Available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace Zenity · checked Back:ab

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  26. Source 26: Discover and assess AI agents (Okta Help Center) Okta · checked Back:abcd

  27. Source 27: Okta is the first independent and neutral identity platform to bring AI agent governance to highly regulated environments Okta · checked Back:abcde

  28. Source 28: Agent-to-agent connections (Okta Help Center) Okta · checked Back:abcde

  29. Source 29: Securing your multi-agent workflows with Agent-to-Agent Connections Okta · checked Back:ab

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  33. Source 33: From Triage to Full Coverage: The Shift AI Agent Security Took in August Zenity · checked Back:abcde

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  36. Source 36: Zenity Achieves FedRAMP “In Process” Status for AI Agent Security Zenity · checked Back:ab

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