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Okta: company research
Last checked Oct 2, 2026
Okta provides identity and access management — single sign-on, MFA, and lifecycle management — for enterprises and, through Auth0, for developers. Interviews weigh security reasoning and API design alongside standard coding. (from our editorial profile)
Key facts
- Industry
- Identity & access management
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA
- Founded
- 2009
- Size
- 6,000+ employees
- Stage
- Public
- Website
- okta.com
(from our editorial profile)Source: sec.gov
Technology and AI
Okta's Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform enable customers to securely connect the right people to the right technologies and services at the right time. For IT and security leaders, the Okta Platform governs access by human users and non-human identities to the applications they need, and developers use the Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform to embed identity for human users and, increasingly, AI agents into the software they build. The company says it is expanding these capabilities to include AI agents through product offerings that are currently available or under development. It employs a SaaS business model and generates revenue primarily by selling multi-year subscriptions to its cloud-b…
Source: sec.govRecent moves
On September 4, 2025, Okta acquired all of the outstanding equity of Axiom Security Ltd, a privately held company specializing in privileged access management solutions, for $54 million in cash, which is expected to broaden Okta's privileged access management capabilities. On August 26, 2026, Okta completed its acquisition of Permiso Security Inc., a cloud-native identity security platform that detects and mitigates threats across human, non-human, and agentic identities in multi-cloud environments, which is expected to help broaden its identity threat detection and response capabilities. In its second quarter fiscal 2027 results announced August 26, 2026, Okta reported total revenue of $80…
Source: sec.govLikely challenges
Okta states that as AI agents transform every layer of technology, every agent needs a trusted identity and clear controls over what it can access and do. It positions itself as helping organizations discover agents, secure their connections, govern their actions, and respond when something goes wrong, so they can deploy agents safely and at scale. The company describes the need to secure every identity, from humans to AI agents, as a critical challenge it was built to solve.
Source: okta.comCompetitors and position
Okta describes itself as the leading independent identity provider and, in its fourth quarter fiscal 2026 results, as the only independent and neutral identity platform. It says this independence and neutrality position it to secure every identity, from humans to AI agents, while giving customers across the public and private sector the flexibility to innovate. The company states that its customers consist of leading global organizations.
Source: okta.comLeadership
- Todd McKinnonChief Executive Officer and co-founder
- Brett TigheChief Financial Officer
In the news
- Okta announces second quarter fiscal year 2027 financial results
okta.com, 2026-08-26
- Okta announces fourth quarter and fiscal year 2026 financial results
okta.com, 2026-03-04
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