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Okta, the leading independent identity partner, has announced the results of the Okta AI Security Poll, which shows while Australian organisations are rapidly embracing AI, many are still defining who owns the risks and how best to govern them.

It's an industry irony that the “lower tech” the email scam, the harder it is to catch. Nevertheless, it is true.

At the Oktane 2025 conference in Las Vegas, Oscar nominated actor Jeremy Renner spoke about his accident, his life, career, and resilience. The full conversation - in addition to Okta's work in philanthropy - is available to watch below, after which is an AI-generated summary of the talk. Please watch, and read on!

Protect every identity, AI agent, and app with one identity security fabric. Old security challenges? New AI risks: Managing authorisation in a complex ecosystem. Watch the second and third keynotes from Day 1 of Oktane 2025 below, where this is all explained in the detail you need to know!

Okta secures AI - and every other entity, from machine to human. The company is the leading independent identity partner, and at its annual Oktane conference, today announced its new Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform capabilities, enabling organisations to build secure, standards-first AI agents that can be seamlessly woven into an identity security fabric for end-to-end lifecycle management. As part of the fabric, organisations will also be able to issue and verify tamper-proof digital credentials, helping establish trust and address rising AI-powered fraud. See the main keynote video below!

COMPANY NEWS:

• Rubrik Identity Recovery now available for Okta, providing immutable, air-gapped backup and orchestrated recovery capabilities
• Organisations can reduce downtime and identity risks from human error, misconfigurations, or malicious changes
• Rubrik provides the first and only Identity Recovery solution spanning Okta, Active Directory, and Entra ID

Okta, a leading independent identity provider, has appointed experienced security executive Mathew Graham as its Chief Security Officer (CSO) for the Asia-Pacific region. Graham will be responsible for driving Okta’s regional security strategy, helping organisations strengthen Identity as critical infrastructure for business resilience.

iTWireTV speaks with Okta chief product officer Arnab Bose about Okta's cross-app access, securing AI workloads and agents, and other topics on security, identity, and authentication.

GUEST RESEARCH:

• New data from Identity Security Risk Assessments reveals critical blind spots in non-human identity posture
• BeyondTrust’s latest solution brings secrets into full view, just as Agentic AI spins up at scale

10 years is a long time in tech. Identity and authentication provider Okta has celebrated the 10th anniversary of its Businesses at Work report, taking the opportuntiy to reflect and review how things changed over the decade.

COMPANY NEWS: Popular generative AI security analyst can now be used to speed cybersecurity investigations and simplify threat hunting across a growing list of native and third-party sources

Phishing-resistant users build phishing-resistant enterprises. With the growing sophistication of cyber threats, enterprises that can efficiently raise the bar for security helps ensure protection of users and their data to effectively drive digital acceleration.

COMPANY NEWS: To help organisations achieve phishing-resistance at scale, we recently announced  the general availability of  Yubico Enrollment Suite – a set of offerings that includes Yubico FIDO Pre-reg and the brand new YubiEnroll – which delivers choice to enterprises in how they fast-track to a phishing-resistant stance and go passwordless by pre-enrolling YubiKeys with their Identity Platform (IdP) before delivering to end users.

Digital identity software provider Okta has massively upgraded its free tier, allowing any developer to include MFA in their apps, no matter if it is a hobby app or a commercial product. Okta has also upped the number of monthly active users from 7,500 to 25,000, and thrown in so much more.

COMPANY NEWS: Identity-based cyber attacks continue to prevail and impact organisations. Stealing credentials was the top initial action in breaches, according to Verizon. Plus, 84% of identity stakeholders surveyed said identity-related incidents directly impacted their business, resulting in reputational damages, distraction from core business, and increased recovery costs.

There has been an increase in AI-driven phishing attacks in Australia with research revealing that Australia is within the top 10 countries alongside US, UK, India and Germany targeted by phishing scams.

COMPANY NEWS: 

• Accelerated recurring revenue to greater than 80% of total revenue while delivering profitable growth exceeding the "Rule of 40"
• Released advanced capabilities across the BeyondTrust Platform in 2023 to provide customers with unmatched visibility and control in their relentless battle against sophisticated cyber threats

COMPANY NEWS: Yubico, the leading provider of hardware authentication security keys, announced the initial availability of Fido Pre-reg, an industry-first capability that delivers secure and seamless passwordless onboarding and account recovery/reset from day one at scale for enterprises.

Two teenagers have been found guilty of involvement in a number of attacks that included breahes of Uber, Nvidia and Rockstar Games, the BBC reported.

Guest Interview and Case Study: When one of the world's great global identity companies meets one of the world's great global tech companies with an operations platform that unlocks the power of observation at scale, both companies get to work on their core competencies, multiplying the value that's delivered, with this great "fireside chat" style discussion between myself, Richard Marr of Okta, and James Simpson from SafetyCulture available to watch below!

Guest Interview and Case Study: When one of the world's great global identity companies meets one of the world's great global tech companies with an operations platform that unlocks the power of observation at scale, both companies get to work on their core competencies, multiplying the value that's delivered, with this great "fireside chat" style discussion between myself, Richard Marr of Okta, and James Simpson from SafetyCulture available to watch below!