Okta, Inc. is reinforcing its commitment to the Indian market with the launch of in-country Okta Platform tenants, delivering data residency and enhanced disaster recovery. It also helps enable highly regulated sectors--such as banking, financial services, insurance, and healthcare--to securely adopt AI and strengthen their defenses against advanced cyber threats. As enterprises in India accelerate their AI ambitions, security and governance are struggling to keep pace.

Okta research shows that 91% of organizations are already using AI agents, but only 10% have a well-developed strategy or roadmap for managing non-human identities. This gap underscores the growing need for identity governance in the AI era. Okta's identity security fabric helps bridge this divide by providing a central control plane to manage every identity--from humans to AI agents--ac across all apps, use-cases, and resources.

Local Okta Platform tenants, hosted on AWS, will help Okta customers address India's evolving data, security, and compliance challenges by offering: Data Residency and Compliance Support: Indian organizations can now store identity data within India. This capability is designed to support customers who prefer or require local storage based on their internal policies or applicable regulations. This foundational investment in trust helps customers meet their governance and compliance requirements, including those guided by the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDP Act) and sector-specific expectations from regulators.

Secure the AI Frontier: In-country tenants help enable businesses to utilize Okta's identity security fabric and extend protection to both human and machine identities. This provides the necessary control to defend against emerging AI-powered cyber threats. Enhanced Disaster Recovery: Okta's advanced business continuity service leading resilience to keep customers secure and operational during regional infrastructure outages.

New and existing Okta customers will be able to deploy in the India region in early 2026.