Okta and Anthropic are strengthening enterprise AI security, with Okta announced as a featured identity provider supporting Anthropic's beta programme. Joint customers including Ramp, Webflow and HubSpot can now use Okta as the governance layer for Claude Enterprise while accessing applications from participating model context protocol (MCP) providers like Asana, Atlassian, Canva, Figma, Granola, Linear and Supabase. The beta programme establishes secure connections between Claude and enterprise applications through cross app access (XAA), an open protocol led by Okta extending OAuth for secure agent-to-app and app-to-app access, which also serves as the official authorisation extension within MCP under the name ‘Enterprise Managed Auth’. “The industry has seen that when technology ecosystems grow quickly, open standards become critical to helping them scale securely,” says Ely Kahn, Chief Product Officer at Okta. Designed to help enterprises centralise identity management for AI tools, the partnership allows IT teams to authorise MCP connectors once across the organisation, assign access based on existing Okta groups and roles, and revoke permissions automatically when users or AI agents are offboarded. “Enterprise-managed auth gives MCP the foundation it needs to scale across an enterprise, with Okta as our first identity provider partner,” says Mayank Malhotra, Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic.