Ownership
Every finding gets an accountable owner
Surf resolves the accountable human for each access risk from identity, HR, code, and on-call context, so nothing waits in an unowned queue.
Okta and Surf AI
Operationalize your Okta access findings: clean permissions, clear owners
Okta governs who can access what across your workforce and apps. Surf AI helps operationalize remediation for detected risks, removes standing access that no one uses, and keeps your identity footprint clean as people and roles change.
- Owner-driven access cleanup
- Standing access removed safely
- Identity hygiene that holds
OktaAccess risks are visible. Cleaning them up is the work.
Okta shows dormant accounts, over-provisioned roles, and access that should have been removed. Acting on any of it means knowing whose access it is, whether removing it breaks a workflow, and getting the change approved.
That is manual, so risky access lingers and the list of access findings only grows. Every joiner, mover, and leaver adds more. Without a closed loop, identity hygiene decays between certification cycles and the backlog of stale access never really shrinks.
Okta shows the risky access. Surf AI removes it, safely, and keeps it clean.
What changes
From a growing queue to a backlog that shrinks.
Closure
Closed and verified, not just ticketed
Surf drives each access risk to a verified fix and writes the outcome back, turning a ticket into a closed, recorded loop.
Backlog
The backlog shrinks and stays down
Recurring issues are fixed at the source and stop coming back, so hygiene improves and holds instead of resetting each cycle.
The Scenario
Risky standing access is sitting in your directory.
OktaIdentity
Standing accessHigh
Dormant privileged access to a production app
Okta flags an assignment that grants admin rights that have gone unused. On its own it is a low-noise finding, but it is exactly the standing access that should not persist.
- Identity
- j.okafor (workforce user)
- Access
- Admin role on a production app
- Usage
- Dormant · no recent activity
- Provisioned via
- Group assignment
- Blast radius
- Production application
- Policy
- Least privilege
What happens next is where the two paths diverge.
Two paths
Same access risk. Two outcomes.
Without Surf AI
Backlog grows.
Stale access lingers, and every joiner and leaver adds more.
The risk is visible. Ownership, impact, and change policy are not.
- Find the ownerManual
- Assess the impactUnclear
- Clear the changeBlocked
- Escalate and approveAd hoc
- Fix and closeReopens
With Surf AI
Backlog shrinks.
Standing access removed safely. The footprint stays clean.
Okta emits the finding. The Context Graph fills in the rest.
- Resolve ownershipAutomated
- Model and guardModeled
- Route to the ownerOne tap
- Close and write backVerified
Standing access risk
CriticalOKTA-3391. j.okafor holds an admin role on a production app, unused with no recent activity.
Surf AI via Okta · Approve & Remediate
How it works
From finding to verified closure.
Bring in the findings
Ingest
Okta findings flow into Surf with full context, so every issue enters the loop ready to act on rather than waiting in a queue.
Own it and model it
Resolve
The Context Graph names the accountable owner and compliance scope, and availability across identity, HR, cloud, code, and IT systems.
Remediate and write back
Close
The owner gets a one-tap action. One approval drives the fix through your change workflow, and Surf writes the verified outcome back to Okta.
All of it runs inside the Context Graph, a continuously updated knowledge graph that links identity, cloud, code, HR, and IT systems.
Context Graph
Capabilities that turn Okta findings into closed, owned work.
Subject defragmentation
A person or service is scattered across identity, HR, code, and cloud systems under different handles. The Context Graph resolves them into one subject, so ownership points to a real, accountable human even when the record is stale.
Ripple effect modeling
Before recommending action, Surf simulates downstream impact across services, entitlements, and data access, so teams know what a fix will and will not break, and which option is safest.
Compliance embedding
Regulated scope, change-approval rules, and policy are properties of every node, resolved alongside ownership rather than chased separately.
Availability awareness
Leave status, on-call schedules, and identity activity determine who can act, not just who is listed as the owner on paper.
Bidirectional lifecycle closure
Surf writes remediation outcomes back to Okta with action and approver, so the finding becomes a verified closure with a complete audit trail on both sides.
Across domains
One graph, every domain
Because the graph spans identity, HR, ITSM, and SaaS, Surf assigns an accountable owner even when a finding never maps to a cloud asset, the cross-domain reach most remediation tools lack.
Partners
Built together for closed-loop remediation.
About Surf AI
Surf AI is an agentic operations platform that helps enterprises operationalize security programs with AI. By connecting context across identity, cloud, data, HR, and IT systems, Surf closes the gap between understanding risk and acting on it. Surf's AI-native platform uses specialized agents to drive action with human oversight, guardrails, and auditability built in. Surf is backed by Accel, Cyberstarts and Boldstart Ventures, and trusted by global companies including Fortune 500 enterprises.
www.surf.aiAbout Okta
Okta is an independent identity provider that manages workforce and customer access across the enterprise, including single sign-on, lifecycle management, and access policy. Okta is the front door to the applications people use every day, and the authority on who should have access to what.
www.okta.comOkta and Surf AI
Turn Okta findings into closed, owned work.
See how Surf gives every finding an owner, a safe path to closure, and a complete audit trail.