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Okta : becomes a featured identity provider powering secure AI agent connections for Anthropic’s Claude
Okta : becomes a featured identity provider powering secure AI agent connections for Anthropic’s
About this update from Okta, Inc.
<_p3d_22_22_>Today, Anthropic announced Okta as a featured identity provider supporting their beta program, which enables joint customers, including Ramp, Webflow, Hubspot and others, to leverage Okta to help govern their use of Claude and access to applications from participating MCP providers including Asana, Atlassian Canva, Figma, Granola, Linear, and Supabase. rn The beta program demonstrates how secure Claude connections can be established when AI tools and downstream resource applications standardize around Cross App Access (XAA). This marks an important milestone for XAA, an open protocol led by Okta that extends OAuth to secure agent-to-app and app-to-app access and is an official authorization extension within MCP listed under the name "Enterprise Managed Auth." rn With Okta as the governance layer, customers can apply the model to Claude Enterprise workflows. This enables IT admins to authorize MCP connectors once for their organization, scope access by Okta groups or roles, and revoke access through Okta when users or deployed agents are offboarded. rn Key XAA capabilities provided to participating customers, and planned to be available more broadly, include: rn rn Centralized authorization: Admins provision and authorize MCP connectors for their organization once, helping reduce fragmented agent configurations and repetitive consent prompts. rn rn Robust access control: Users and their AI agents inherit access to specific MCP connectors based on the existing Okta groups and roles they already belong to. rn rn Automated offboarding: Offboarding flows through Okta's standard revocation path. When a user is deactivated or their agent's role changes, their access to MCP connectors is quickly revoked alongside their other enterprise application permissions. rn rn rn "The industry has seen that when technology ecosystems grow quickly, open standards become critical to helping them scale securely," said Ely Kahn, Chief Product Officer, Okta. "Okta first championed Cross App Access to give organizations a common way to secure AI agent connections, and continuing that work with Anthropic and other partners marks a significant milestone in the journey to broad industry adoption. Together, we're helping drive ecosystem alignment around the standards shaping the AI era." rn "Enterprise-managed auth gives MCP the foundation it needs to scale across ...