{"id":61425,"date":"2026-09-24T16:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/ai-agent-kill-switch-urged-by-okta-led-alliance-how-businesses-could-make-it-work\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T16:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:01:19","slug":"ai-agent-kill-switch-urged-by-okta-led-alliance-how-businesses-could-make-it-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/ai-agent-kill-switch-urged-by-okta-led-alliance-how-businesses-could-make-it-work\/","title":{"rendered":"AI agent kill switch urged by Okta-led alliance \u2013 how businesses could make it work"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ZDNET\u2019s key takeaways<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Okta, AWS, Google Cloud, Salesforce, and others form an AI agent security coalition.<\/li>\n<li>The Alliance offers a blueprint for companies seeking visibility, control, and governance of agents.<\/li>\n<li>AI agents need the equivalent of a kill switch to expeditiously terminate suspicious behavior.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n<p>When a swarm of AI agents, many autonomously provisioned by other poorly governed AI agents, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/how-openais-agent-escaped-mapping-a-series-of-preventable-events\/\">escaped OpenAI\u2019s labs<\/a> and stole information from servers belonging to another company (Hugging Face), many experts viewed the incident as&nbsp;a major tipping point in cybersecurity&nbsp;and&nbsp;AI cyber capabilities. (To what extent are models now resourceful enough to engage in self-directed harm?)<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI referred to the incident as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unprecedented<\/a>.\u201d It was the first AI-directed&nbsp; attack of its nature to go viral across mainstream headlines, and it wasn\u2019t long before reports of other agents-gone-wild made headlines as well. The most recent of these reports involved three companies that were inadvertently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/gemini-hacked-three-companies-first-known-breakout-by-google-ai-wsj-reports-2026-09-18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attacked by Google Gemini agents<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/innovation\/ai-models-hack-businesses-who-is-responsible\/\">Who\u2019s responsible for catching rogue AI agents? You are<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-ziff-davis-exco-video is-injected\" id=\"exco-video-block-6a8e06fe4d2cfb09fd68fb54-1326211-1\" data-exco-video-id data-exco-playlist-id=\"6a8e06fe4d2cfb09fd68fb54\" data-exco-video-title data-exco-video-src data-exco-video-duration=\"0\" data-exco-video-poster data-exco-suppress-ads=\"0\" data-exco-autoplay=\"0\" data-exco-sticky=\"1\">\n<p class=\"exco-video__eyebrow\">More from ZDNET<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Significant controversy has ensued.<\/p>\n<p>In one corner are the inventors of AI themselves, saying that the time has come to take a breather from AI innovation in order to get the technology under control. You\u2019d think they should know. For example, OpenAI sounded the alarm that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/openai-warns-malicious-agents-coming-recommended-action\/\">a swarm of potentially malicious AI agents<\/a> is only months away from wreaking havoc. <\/p>\n<p>In the opposite corner is US President Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/trump-administration\/trump-rejects-ai-guardrails-rcna597700\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posting<\/a> to his Truth Social network that \u201cAI taking over the World, destroying Humanity, and all other things bad, is a HOAX.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In between are all the businesses and consumers getting whipsawed between the two points of view and trying to figure out what to do next.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>(Disclosure: Ziff Davis, ZDNET\u2019s parent company, filed an April 2025 lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/openai-warns-malicious-agents-coming-recommended-action\/\">\u2018Sophisticated\u2019 AI swarm attacks are months away, OpenAI warns<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two big questions are arising out of this conversation. First, what can be done over the short and long term to get the technology under control? Second, how can defenders best enable themselves for immediate intervention once suspicious activity is detected?<\/p>\n<p><span>With the goal of helping businesses answer those two questions and to set the stage for world-class governance and management of their agentic estates, several companies, including Okta, Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Salesforce, have<\/span> joined forces to form the&nbsp;Blueprint Alliance. <\/p>\n<p>The Alliance was announced this week at Okta\u2019s annual Oktane conference.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4 questions every business must answer<\/h2>\n<p>In its first blueprint for agentic visibility, control, and governance, the Alliance centered on four questions that all businesses should be able to answer for themselves:<\/p>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Where are my agents?<\/li>\n<li>What can they do?<\/li>\n<li>What are they doing?<\/li>\n<li>How do I respond?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20260922647870\/en\/LastPass-Research-Finds-AI-Adoption-Accelerating-Faster-Than-Governance-Can-Keep-Pace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent research<\/a> conducted by LastPass (not a member of the Alliance), 92% of business admins say AI is already in use across their organization, but only 27% have an enforced AI governance program. Okta\u2019s research reports similar statistics, finding that 92% of organizations use autonomous agents, but only 34% secure those agents with the same rigor as humans. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gartner.com\/en\/newsroom\/press-releases\/2026-04-28-gartner-identifies-six-steps-to-manage-artificial-intelligence-agent-sprawl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gartner\u2019s research<\/a> paints an even bleaker picture, finding that only 13% of organizations believe they have the right AI agent governance in place. In other words, most organizations probably don\u2019t know the answer to some or all of the above questions. The fourth question is particularly important because of the degree to which problematic agents working at machine speed have shortened the response window.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/innovation\/ai-career-ladder-new-ways-to-top\/\">AI just broke your career ladder \u2013 here are 6 new ways to the top<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As Picus Security associate security research engineer Umut Bayram told ZDNET,&nbsp; \u201cIn the AI era, organizations can\u2019t respond to attacks that unfold in minutes with processes that take days. Attackers are already operating at machine speed, and security teams need to be able to respond at that pace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In fairness, not all anomalous agent activity is malicious. Here\u2019s another scenario that demands an immediate response: a well-intentioned agent enters an infinite loop, resulting in excessive billing for LLM access. At machine speeds, such a loop could burn through an entire organization\u2019s AI budget in the blink of an eye. The sooner such an agent is disabled, the better for the bottom line.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The best defenses are scenario-specific <\/h2>\n<p>Of course, in the cybersecurity world, speed has always been essential \u2014 but never more so than now.&nbsp;And given how defenders may only have minutes or seconds to respond once they\u2019ve been alerted to anomalous agent activity, what should be their weapon of choice?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To be clear: There is no silver bullet. As with all cybersecurity, the best defenses are scenario-specific and will involve layers of precautionary measures, some that focus on visibility into agentic activities, and others that tune the security postures of our computers and networks to emerging agentic behaviors and patterns.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/even-an-ai-cost-management-vendor-can-lose-control-of-its-agent-spending\/\">Even an AI cost-management vendor can lose control of its agent spending<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For example, businesses must be prepared to defend against malicious agents of unknown origin as well as internally provisioned agents that, for whatever reasons, stray from their mandates. Unlike robotic automations that deliver highly deterministic outcomes (they do exactly as they were programmed to do), agents are probabilistic to the extent that their underlying models afford them the agency to take matters into their own hands.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When mere seconds can make the difference between the life and death of your systems or even your business, the ideal weapon of choice would be some sort of kill switch \u2014 something like the big red button on an escalator. When in doubt, neutralize the agent first, ask questions later. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is a kill switch?<\/h2>\n<p>In an effort to put organizations on the right path, the new alliance published six operational principles, one of which states that \u201cevery agent needs an immediate kill switch to suspend or terminate operations, with a clear path to restore function.\u201d But, practically speaking, what exactly is a kill switch, and who might have access to one?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It depends.<\/p>\n<p>For example, in the case of OpenAI\u2019s attack on Hugging Face, the agents belonged to OpenAI. Presumably, if OpenAI had the right governance controls in place (it didn\u2019t), it might have detected that its own agents were engaging in suspicious behavior, and then someone at OpenAI with access to a kill switch could have pulled the plug. What about Hugging Face? Did it have access to a kill switch? Probably not to the extent that OpenAI did, since it was OpenAI\u2019s agents that led the attack. But what if an attack on a victim like Hugging Face involved the theft of its credentials to some online service or business application?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/innovation\/workera-study-ai-skills-upskilling-2026\/\">Nearly 70% of workers use AI regularly now \u2013 but many get no time to upskill<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today, one of the more coveted credentials that cybercriminals like to steal are OAuth tokens. These are a type of credential that gives one application (e.g. Slack) access rights to read and update another application (e.g. Google Drive) on behalf of a specific user. In that context, the Google-issued OAuth token that gives Slack the access it needs to work with a specific user\u2019s Google Drive is essentially a proxy for the user\u2019s Google ID and password.<\/p>\n<p>In a scenario that involves an agent (friendly or malicious) using an OAuth credential (stolen or not) to interact with a sensitive resource, a neutralization of that token (known as \u201ctoken revocation\u201d) would essentially amount to a kill switch.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, for certain types of attacks, the victim might have a kill switch at their disposal. And that same option applies to the organization\u2019s own agents because, if they\u2019re doing it right, then their own agents are also using OAuth tokens to access all of their systems of record in order to do what agents do best (autonomously complete tasks that often require access to multiple systems).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The role of OAuth tokens<\/h2>\n<p>When it comes to granting one application access to another, consumers are already familiar with the typical OAuth experience (though they may not know it\u2019s technically referred to as an OAuth workflow). In earlier days, consumers would enter their Gmail user IDs and passwords directly into Apple Mail or Outlook to send and receive email through their preferred email client. Today, however, Google offers a more secure alternative that relies on OAuth tokens. Instead of supplying your Gmail user ID and password to a third-party email client like Apple Mail on your iPhone (a highly insecure practice), Gmail pops up a consent dialog that, once approved by the user, grants a Gmail access token to their email client. From that point on, the email client should be able to send and receive emails without requiring repeated grant requests.<\/p>\n<p>However, should the user lose their iPhone and, as an extra precaution, want to revoke that token, the process is a bit more complicated: it requires a visit to a Google web page where users can manage tokens they\u2019ve already issued. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/microsoft-ditches-sms-texts-for-passkey-authentication\/\">Why Microsoft won\u2019t send you SMS texts for login anymore<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As consumers start to deploy agents that interact with all of the services they use (Gmail, Google Drive, Amazon shopping, social media, music streaming, etc.), they are not only likely to encounter many more Oauth workflows, but they will need to familiarize themselves with each service\u2019s token revocation process as a matter of their personal operational security practices.<\/p>\n<p>For businesses, however, especially ones that rely on an identity management solution like those offered by Okta, Microsoft, and Ping, those same tokens should be managed in a way that centralize token issuance and management into a single system where it\u2019s the IT managers who not only have access to the proverbial kill switches (the power to revoke any token that\u2019s connected to any human or agentic-powered integration), but also, in answer to the \u201cWhere are my agents?\u201d question, offer visibility and control over the organization\u2019s entire agentic estate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, to facilitate those kill switches and that centralized visibility and control, a new extension to the underlying OAuth standard was needed, allowing the central IdP (identity provider) to take responsibility for OAuth workflows and management when AI agents are involved. It was just in this past year that the open standard agentic-sensitive extension \u2013known as the&nbsp;IETF\u2019s Identity Assertion Authorization Grant (IAAG) \u2014 fell into place,&nbsp;thanks in large part to the work done by Okta director of identity standards Aaron Parecki.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Implementing the standard<\/h2>\n<p>But it\u2019s one thing for people like Parecki and others, including IAAG co-author Brian Campbell (Ping Identity), to author a new standard and to achieve standard consensus at the Internet Engineering Task Force. It\u2019s another for that standard to be baked into the various IdPs in a way that facilitates the provision of a readily accessible kill switch in the event that the answer to the third question is \u201csomething they shouldn\u2019t be doing.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the Oktane conference, Okta executives gave customers a demonstration of how its identity and security solutions rely on the new standard to provide IT managers and CISOs with visualizations that, in addition to answering the four questions, also empower them (or even an agent working on their behalf) to take action. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/dont-let-an-ai-chatbot-pick-your-password-ever\/\">Don\u2019t let an AI chatbot pick your password, ever<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For example, the screenshot below depicts how a single Claude-based agent has been afforded access to Slack, Salesforce, Atlassian, and GitHub through two separate agent gateways.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"503\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/OktaAgentGraf.png?w=864\" alt class=\"wp-image-1329114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/OktaAgentGraf.png 1032w, https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/OktaAgentGraf.png?resize=300,147 300w, https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/OktaAgentGraf.png?resize=768,377 768w, https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/OktaAgentGraf.png?resize=1024,503 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/figure>\n<p>Under the hood, OAuth isn\u2019t just giving Claude access to those applications. It\u2019s also controlling the degree of access, an important nuance to the idea of a kill switch. For example, a kill switch that fully revokes a token would essentially deprovision an agent\u2019s access to a back-end application such as Salesforce. But another type of kill switch could simply revoke certain permissions to interact with Salesforce.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Deprovisioning demonstration<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThere are actually two scenarios here,\u201d Okta chief product officer Ely Kahn told ZDNET. \u201cThere\u2019s the one where your own agents start to exhibit weird behavior, and you have to kill them [the nuclear option] just to stop that behavior before it gets out of control. But then there\u2019s another scenario where you can just put a new guardrail in place. For example, a new guardrail that prevents the exfiltration of certain data or just a change in the permissions afforded to the agent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During Okta CEO Todd McKinnon\u2019s conference keynote, Oktane attendees got a glimpse of what that deprovisioning looks like in practice. As soon as a Claude agent was asked to forward confidential information from Salesforce to an employee\u2019s personal email address, another agent detected the prohibited behavior, deprovisioned the first agent\u2019s access to Salesforce (revoked its token), notified the agent\u2019s human owner that Salesforce access was now denied, and sent a message via Slack to the IT department including any details that would be useful in terms of a remedy or restoration of access. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/ai-liability-risks-enterprise-legal-exposure\/\">Your AI vendor could land you in legal hot water<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the need for speed described by Picus Security\u2019s Bayram, the entire process was completed in a matter of seconds, long before any human could have assembled a response.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In his keynote, McKinnon also pointed out that IdPs like Okta can\u2019t necessarily address every aspect of the Blueprint Alliance\u2019s blueprint and that some of the non-identity-based telemetry that helps to determine what an agent is doing must come from other sources. That said, Okta also showed two other tools that could be valuable to businesses looking to gain control of their agentic estate. One of these \u2014 Shadow AI Agent Discovery for Endpoints \u2014 helps organizations discover unsanctioned \u201cshadow\u201d AI agents roaming company networks.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Another tool \u2014 Okta Identity Threat Protection \u2014 aggregates risk intelligence from other agentic risk detection solutions (CrowdStrike, Zscaler, SentinelOne, Palo Alto Networks, etc.) into a single view for human- or agentically driven remediation decisions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<section class=\"zd-disqus\" data-zd-disqus data-disqus-shortname=\"zdnet-1\" data-disqus-identifier=\"1326211\" data-disqus-url=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/innovation\/okta-blueprint-alliance-ai-agents-oauth-kill-switch\/\" data-disqus-title=\"AI agent kill switch urged by Okta-led alliance \u2013 how businesses could make it work\" data-disqus-api-key=\"y0Dp0T6itn9rbTvSf2xkzkhaUL7c5EJsmaWF3XYBqXNz8GHH7wSX1nXi4qzdihWV\" data-disqus-show-label=\"Show Comments\" data-disqus-hide-label=\"Hide Comments\"> <button type=\"button\" class=\"zd-disqus__toggle\" data-zd-disqus-toggle aria-expanded=\"false\"> <span class=\"zd-disqus__toggle-text\" data-zd-disqus-label>Show Comments<\/span> <svg class=\"zd-disqus__toggle-icon\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" viewBox=\"0 0 14 14\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"> <path d=\"M7 1 V12.5 M2.5 8 L7 12.5 L11.5 8\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"1.5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" \/> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/p>\n<div class=\"zd-disqus__panel\" data-zd-disqus-panel hidden>\n<p class=\"zd-disqus__consent\" data-zd-disqus-consent hidden>Please accept cookies to view the comments powered by Disqus.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <noscript>Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.<\/noscript> <\/section>\n<div class=\"articleAuthorBioFooter-container\">\n<div class=\"articleAuthorBioFooter\">\n<div class=\"articleAuthorBioFooter_body\">\n<div class=\"articleAuthorBioFooter_nameBlock\">\n<div class=\"c-cmsImage articleAuthorBioFooter_image\"> <picture class=\"c-cmsImage_image\"> <img alt=\"David Berlind\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/david-berlind.jpg?w=64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/david-berlind.jpg?w=128 2x\" class=\"avatar avatar-64 photo\" height=\"64\" width=\"64\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"> <\/picture> <\/div>\n<div class=\"articleAuthorBioFooter_nameText\">\n<div class=\"articleAuthorBioFooter_name\"> <span>David Berlind<\/span> <\/div>\n<p> <span class=\"articleAuthorBioFooter_credentials\"> Senior Contributing Editor <\/span> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <span class=\"articleAuthorBioFooter_bio has-bio\"> <span>David Berlind is one of the founding editors of ZDNET and is an award-winning tech journalist. 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