Okta is a leader in identity — including first-class AI-agent identities. Kynara is the authorization, containment, and compliance layer that runs on top of whatever issues those identities. In most stacks you'll use both.
| Capability | Kynara | Okta |
|---|---|---|
| Primary category | AI-agent permission & governance control plane | Identity provider + lifecycle for humans, NHIs & agents |
| Purpose-built for AI agents | ✓ Yes | ~ Agent identity, not fine-grained agent authz |
| Manages agent & user identities | ✓ Yes | ✓ Source of truth (Kynara syncs from Okta) |
| RBAC + ABAC policy engine | ✓ Yes | ~ Coarse policies / group-based access |
| Non-escalation (agent ≤ dispatching user) | ✓ Yes | ✗ No agent-on-behalf intersection model |
| Human-in-the-loop approvals | ✓ Yes | ✗ Not a built-in agent workflow |
| MCP tool-call authorization | ✓ Yes | ✗ Not built-in |
| Tamper-evident (hash-chained) audit log | ✓ Yes | ~ System log; not per-decision hash chain |
| Policy replay / simulation | ✓ Yes | ✗ Not provided |
| Deployment | Cloud or self-host (source-available) | SaaS |
Comparison reflects our reading of publicly documented capabilities and is provided in good faith; verify current specifics with each vendor.
You need enterprise identity: SSO, lifecycle, directory, and a system of record for human, non-human, and agent identities. Okta is the right place to issue and govern those identities.
You need fine-grained, per-tool-call authorization for agents, non-escalation across delegation, human approvals, MCP enforcement, and a tamper-evident decision log — the runtime control layer Okta isn't built to provide.
Connect Okta under Identity Providers and Kynara imports your agent identities (and can map Okta groups to Kynara roles). Okta owns identity; Kynara owns authorization, containment, and audit — a clean division of responsibility.
No — they're complementary. Okta issues and verifies agent identity; Kynara enforces fine-grained authorization and keeps the audit trail. Kynara syncs agent identities from Okta.
Yes. Kynara's Okta integration imports agent identities (via Okta's agents API or a designated group) and keeps them in sync, optionally mapping Okta groups to Kynara roles.
Verifying an agent's identity doesn't control what it can do. The unsolved 'authorization gap' is per-action, context-aware control — exactly what Kynara provides on top of identity.
RBAC + ABAC, human-in-the-loop approvals, MCP tool-call enforcement, and a tamper-evident audit log.