What is the added value of Lyzr’s agent discovery compared to Okta, and can they work together?

Controlling what your people can access is a different problem from controlling what your AI agents can access.

You're right to see a distinction.

Okta manages human identity. OpenController by Lyzr, Lyzr's agent control plane, manages agent identity and behavior.

They solve two different problems, and they are designed to work together.

Every production agent stack needs a control plane. OpenController is a framework-agnostic, cloud-agnostic one, built for enterprise governance.

It doesn't replace Okta; it extends your governance to a new, non-human workforce.

Okta Discovers Users. Lyzr Discovers Agents.

Okta is the system of record for your human users.

It knows who your employees are, what groups they belong to, and which applications they have permission to use. It’s essential for single sign-on and user lifecycle management.

But Okta’s view stops at the front door of the application.

It doesn’t see the AI agents your teams are building internally. It can't trace which specific APIs an agent calls, what data it retrieves from a vector database, or the logic it follows to complete a task.

This is the gap OpenController fills.

Its discovery is purpose-built for the agentic stack. It finds and inventories the agents themselves, no matter the framework.

It maps their toolsets, their data sources, and their potential actions. This isn't about discovering users; it's about discovering the capabilities of your automated systems.

How Lyzr and Okta Work Together

This isn't an "either/or" choice. It's a "yes, and" architecture.

You absolutely continue to use Okta for what it does best: authenticating your human users. Lyzr doesn't run that discovery again.

We build on top of it.

Think of the workflow:

1. An analyst, authenticated by Okta, asks a financial agent to summarize quarterly performance.
2. The request is routed through OpenController. It knows who the user is, thanks to the identity Okta provides.
3. OpenController then governs the agent. It checks its own policies: Is this agent allowed to access the finance database? Does this specific request require human approval before running?
4. As the agent runs, OpenController's observability layer records every step: every tool call, every database query, every LLM interaction.

The result is a complete audit trail.

You get the human governance from Okta and the agent governance from Lyzr. Okta proves who asked.

OpenController proves what the agent did in response.

Your Governance Model, Extended

You don’t need to choose between them.

Your identity platform is for your human workforce. Lyzr’s control plane is for your new, non-human workforce.

They are complementary layers in a modern enterprise security and governance stack.

If you're building out your AI governance strategy, let's talk.

Want to see how it fits your stack? Talk to us about OpenController by Lyzr.