Okta moves to buy Permiso for nearly $200M

Okta agreed to buy Permiso Security in an almost all-cash deal worth just under $200 million, according to TechCrunch’s transaction reporting. Okta’s announcement says Permiso contributes more than 2,500 threat signals across 70-plus identity partners, including runtime monitoring and sandbox analysis for AI agents, with closing expected in fiscal Q3 2027. For operators building the governed agent layer described in Snowflake’s control-plane push, the deal is another sign that agent identity is moving from login policy into continuous behavior detection.