Alongside the technological side in securing trust, there’s a human side. That misalignment inspired Anthropic Identity LLC and the company’s human-centric focus to identity management and security, according to James Bonifield, chief executive officer of Anthropic Identity. Agentic AI is forcing enterprises to confront identity issues that were long overlooked. Overprivileged accounts, once a manageable risk, become dangerous when paired with AI agents that can instantly exploit digital trust gaps, according to Bonifield. “As these application teams and as these companies are looking to make their applications available for agentic AI and building some of these capabilities, there’s a lot of modernization that needs to happen, both in terms of the identity side and the application side,” he said. “We’re doing a lot of work around tools like Okta’s Fine-Grained Authorization in terms of being able to bridge that gap between legacy technologies and legacy authorization models and leveraging a tool like that.” Authentication tools are maturing, but authorization remains a “wild west” as enterprises prepare apps for AI integration, Bonifield added. Okta and its partners — including Anthropic Identity — are working to define best practices for managing non-human identities and fine-grained authorization.