Okta President and COO Eric Kelleher discusses the growing importance of agent identity security as open-source models narrow the gap with frontier LLMs. Kelleher joins Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Mandeep Singh on this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast to discuss how Okta is adapting to the rise of agentic identities and the industry’s shift from a seat-based to a token-consumption business model.

Okta COO on Agent Security, Open Source Threats

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Hello and welcome to the Bloomberg Tech Disruptors podcast. My name is Mandeep and with me today is Eric Kelleher, President and COO of Okta. Eric, welcome to the podcast. Mandeep, thanks for having me. It's great to be here. Great. So look, I mean, you guys, you know, are a pure play cybersecurity company. I had taught on

about a year back and we talked, you know, around identity security and you obviously are a category leader in that space, but a lot has changed, you know, since the last time he was on and I thought this was perfect timing for you to come on and given, you know, you've been relatively new at the

company compared to Todd. So maybe we can start off with your background and know what have your observations been since you joined the company and then we can go from there. Yeah, I mean, Todd, his founder has been with us for since we started in 2009 for 17 years. I joined about 10 years ago and in my time with Okta have served in a variety of executive roles, predominantly

biased towards our customers and our operations and how we run the company. And that's, it's included a broad exposure to various functions within the company. What drew me to Okta, you asked a little bit about my background. My background has been in building companies and in particular building SaaS companies. I was an early believer in the reality that software as a service is a better

business model. And it's a better model for technologies because vendors work on one version of their stack to innovate and improve performance and optimize. And every customer immediately benefits from all that innovation.

Okta COO on Agent Security, Open Source Threats

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Okta COO on Agent Security, Open Source Threats

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