The Era of the Bot Battlers – Bhawna Singh – OKT24 #1

Customer Identity is everywhere. It's powering secure experiences for billions - enabling people to check their luggage at the airport, watch their favorite Major League Soccer games, or take their favorite Peloton class. Because it’s everywhere, threat actors now see customer identity as a path to financial gain. Bots now make up nearly 50% of all internet traffic and are being used to steal sign-up bonuses or breach accounts. And cybercriminals are bypassing the login box completely, stealing authenticated session cookies at record rates. Bhawna Singh. Chief Technology Officer of Customer Identity Cloud at Okta joins host Mandy Logan, from Security Weekly, to discuss the current state of customer identity, what developers need to know about securing their applications and what Okta is doing to help developers build applications that decipher a human from a bot.

00:00 - Welcome and Introduction 00:46 - What are Bot Battlers? 02:55 - Identity is Security 03:50 - The Role of AI in Bot Mitigation 04:33 - Okta's New Tool: Auth for Gen AI 06:37 - Frictionless User Experience with AI 08:16 - AI's Impact on Everyday Life 09:13 - Granular Authorization for Large Language Models 10:16 - Developers’ Increasing Role in Security 12:26 - Technology as a Means of Universal Progress 13:48 - Misconceptions About AI and Bots 15:14 - Conclusion: Reassigning Bots for the Common Good 15:27 - Closing Remarks

Segment Resources: https://www.okta.com/oktane/ https://www.okta.com/press-room/press-releases/okta-helps-builders-easily-implement-auth-for-genai-apps-secure-how/

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