The business wants AI, and it wants it now. Meanwhile security budgets are flatlining, breaches are becoming a line item, and agents can wander places no one scoped them for. Kevin Akermanis, Solutions Architect at Okta and a 15-year Salesforce veteran, joins James to talk about what actually breaks when you bolt AI onto an enterprise, and why experience is quietly becoming the scarcest asset in tech.
Guardrails Are Just Suggestions: Securing AI Agents with Okta's Kevin Akermanis
6 July 2026
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