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Okta Is Buying Permiso for ~$200M to Watch What AI Agents Do After They Log In
Okta signed a definitive agreement on July 30 to acquire Permiso Security, a 2022-founded startup by ex-FireEye execs Paul Nguyen and Jason Martin that had raised only ~$29M — TechCrunch's source puts the price near $200M. Permiso's platform runs 2,500+ research-driven detection signals across 70+ identity partners to flag overprivileged access, unused permissions, anomalous agent behavior, tool usage and high-blast-radius actions in real time. The strategic read: Okta is conceding that the identity provider's job no longer ends at authentication — the money is now in post-login behavioral detection for non-human identities, a layer IdPs historically ceded to SIEM and CSPM vendors.
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