Last week, more than 5,000 identity and security professionals gathered in Las Vegas for Oktane 2025, Okta’s flagship conference. The event brought together industry leaders, practitioners, and innovators to explore the latest trends shaping the future of identity and cybersecurity. From product roadmaps and hands-on sessions to visionary keynotes, the conference offered valuable insights into how organizations are adapting to new security challenges. In this post, we’ll share our four key learnings and takeaways from the week.
1. The Growing Chorus Around Backup and Resilience
A dominant theme was the rising customer demand for backup and resilience solutions. Compared to previous years, there was a significant increase in focus and a pressing need for Okta backup solutions.
More attendees and Okta customers than ever before were educated and asking questions about IAM backup and recovery options. A growing number of sponsors dedicated their booth space to discussing the growing importance of IAM resilience.
Organizations are under board-level pressure to ensure continuity of both customer and workforce productivity. Several were tasked with the creation of formal resilience plans to address the large cost of downtime. We anticipate strong growth in this market as more enterprises address IAM resilience gaps.
2. NHIs and the Unified Vision of the Identity Security Fabric
As expected, AI and non-human identities (NHIs) naturally took much of the spotlight.
Securing only human identities is no longer enough. The identities of AI agents, including bots, automation, and service accounts, must also be managed, monitored, and controlled. Okta introduced the concept of an Identity Security Fabric, designed to unify identity threat protection, governance, access management, and NHI oversight while reducing tool sprawl.
Most organizations already use AI agents but lack mature strategies to secure them. Shifting to treat agents as identities requires not just new tools but also new processes, ownership structures, and accountability. While Okta’s roadmap includes integrating NHIs into this fabric, many NHIs still remain outside its scope.
For deeper analysis, see MightyID’s article: What to know about achieving Identity Fabric Immunity
3. Audit and Visibility
A recurring theme was the need for tracking and audit visibility. Audit trails, behavioral monitoring, anomaly detection, and governance over agent actions are critical to detecting misuse or compromise. Although endpoint detection solutions provide some overlap, the growth of Agentic AI (NHIs) raises new concerns around visibility and accountability. Effective auditing, reporting, and anomaly-triggering capabilities are now essential safeguards.
4. Environmental Complexity
Organizations are confronting the complexity of modern identity lifecycles and the challenge of integrating Okta with broader ecosystems, including cloud identity providers, NHIs, Active Directory, and other directories. This complexity is pushing many to reevaluate workflows and pursue comprehensive identity re-tooling. Beyond Okta, enterprises are taking a holistic view of MFA, PAM, IGA, and other identity solutions to streamline and secure the entire lifecycle.
Traditional zero trust models have focused on human user sessions, devices, network segmentation, and identity. With autonomous agents now performing machine-to-machine actions, trust boundaries must evolve to account for behavior, context, and time-bound permissions. Many are adopting more features from Okta, but the overall platform size, concerns about the identity lifecycle and other complexities are causing many to take thoughtful steps on total identity tooling and workflow review.
Oktane 2025 showed that as identity continues to sit at the center of modern security strategies, it’s clear that organizations need the right tools and expertise to stay ahead. If you’d like to see how MightyID can help strengthen your identity and security program, contact us today.
