Protect and Rotate AI Agent Credentials

AI agents need access to sensitive systems like CRM databases, cloud infrastructure, and internal APIs—but hard-coded API keys and static secrets create critical vulnerabilities that traditional MFA can't address. This course shows how to secure your AI agents' credentials using Okta's identity-first approach, ensuring they operate safely without expanding your attack surface.

• Understand why hard-coded credentials in AI agent configurations are the primary security vulnerability and how Okta eliminates this risk by vaulting secrets and enforcing strict isolation—ensuring credentials never appear in agent code, configuration files, or developer logs.
• Bind AI Agent Identities to specific privileged credentials using Managed Connections, creating a secure control plane where only authorized agents can request specific keys, and configure Resource Indicators as an abstraction layer so developers reference human-readable strings instead of actual secrets.
• Future-proof your security posture by enabling credential rotation and target system changes without rewriting or redeploying agent code—because agents request the indicator, not the specific secret ID.
• Manage the AI agent's own identity credentials using cryptographic RS256 key pairs for secretless authentication, and perform full key lifecycle operations—including generation, activation, rotation, and deactivation—directly from the Credentials tab in the Okta Admin Console.

Format: On-demand

Duration: 8 minutes