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A number of stocks fell in the afternoon session after markets remained volatile during the last trading session of the week, reflecting growing uncertainty, with the broad market retreat erasing the sector's gains from the previous day.

AI suddenly has a regulator breathing down its neck. California’s new oversight push throws fresh risk at developers, yet quietly shines a spotlight on companies that help police algorithms and prove they are safe. That creates a story investors rarely get in real time. Rules tighten, complexity grows, and specialists in governance and auditing step forward. This article walks through 3 stocks exposed to that policy shock. The three stocks below are a sample of what this new AI rulebook is...

Jim Cramer put Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) and Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU) at the top of his technology stock list during the September 17 episode of Mad Money, as he said: Yesterday, I said that people would buy tech. We got that in spades today. I continue to recommend the cybersecurity stocks, and I’d add Okta […]

Jim Cramer highlighted Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA) on the September 16 episode of Mad Money, mentioning that artificial intelligence is not making the identity-security company obsolete, as he said: Now that everybody’s wringing their hands over the risk of AI, I’m going to drill down on the cybersecurity plays that I think could help mitigate the […]

Investors are upgrading cybersecurity and authentication companies amid growing concern over AI agent swarms.

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) is down by -0.11% today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is down by -0.39%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up +0.09%. December E-mini S&P futures (ESZ26 ) are down -0.15%, and December E-mini...

It has been an impressive week for cybersecurity names.

AI adoption and rising data-security needs are keeping investors focused on the cybersecurity trade.

Great things are happening to the stocks in this article. They’re all outperforming the market over the last month because of positive catalysts such as a new product line, constructive news flow, or even a loyal Reddit fanbase.

CrowdStrike, Okta, and Iovance Biotherapeutics stocks surged to annual highs amid industry tailwinds and positive Wall Street outlooks.

Lyft downgraded, Trip.com upgraded: Wall Street's top analyst calls

Okta surged past its cybersecurity peers while the broader market fell, and now the stock sits within striking distance of a major psychological level that analysts refuse to endorse.

As the craze of earnings season draws to a close, here’s a look back at some of the most exciting (and some less so) results from Q2. Today, we are looking at cybersecurity stocks, starting with Okta (NASDAQ:OKTA).

Cisco (CSCO) President and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel joins Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi to discuss how cybersecurity needs to keep pace with AI threats and will require industrywide collaboration.

In recent days, Okta has rolled out new AI-driven identity governance and privileged access features, while highlighting the growing security risks from AI misuse and preparing to webcast its Opening Keynote and Investor Summit that took place on September 23, 2026. This combination of AI-focused product enhancements and public commentary on AI threats has sharpened attention on Okta’s role in securing both human and machine identities. We’ll now examine how Okta’s AI-powered identity...

Okta event puts identity security in focus Okta (OKTA) is back in the spotlight after the company scheduled a September 23, 2026 Opening Keynote and Investor Summit webcast, inviting investors to scrutinize its identity security business and long term positioning. Okta’s recent investor event news comes on top of a sharp run. The share price is at US$190.45 after a 29.18% 1 month share price return and a 127.70% year to date share price return, while the 1 year total shareholder return of...

Four major infrastructure vendors have now shipped standalone agent governance products at general availability. The vendor rush itself has become the signal. Okta’s July 2026 product innovations pushed the furthest into new territory. The company shipped Agent-to-Agent Connections at general availability, enabling secure multi-agent workflows by issuing temporary runtime tokens that enforce which agents may […]

Okta CEO Todd McKinnon weighs in on the huge AI risk debate.

Okta (OKTA) CEO Todd McKinnon joins Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi to discuss AI CEOs calling for a slower pace in developing advanced models and the downside of slowing that development amid cybersecurity risks.

RUM Group lands a $13.7B Anthropic compute deal, highlighting continued AI infrastructure demand despite growing safety concerns.

Okta (OKTA) stock rose 12% in Monday's session and closed at $186.45, its highest price in a year. A move that size usually follows something the company itself announced. What Okta announced that morning does not qualify. Monday’s sharp rally appears driven more by sector-wide AI sentiment than any immediate change to Okta’s guided revenue.

A number of stocks jumped in the afternoon session after shares of enterprise software and SaaS companies rallied broadly as investors rotated capital out of semiconductor and AI-hardware stocks following calls for an artificial intelligence development slowdown.

Although AI safety warnings continue to spark fierce public debate and market volatility, AI companies' underlying actions paint a vastly different picture.

News about the shifting AI landscape sent the cybersecurity specialist higher.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for slowing frontier AI development, while OpenAI CEO Sam Altman backed the idea and said the firm would also adopt independent evaluators with employee-like access.

A boost for at least one sector of AI.

As the industry converges on San Francisco for Dreamforce 2026, the narrative is predictably polished. Salesforce is positioning its Trust Boundary as the definitive architecture for the agentic enterprise, promising a seamless vision of unity. Yet, for those tasked with building the actual infrastructure, the reality is far more fragmented. The trust stack has not […]

Four enterprise software vendors shipped standalone AI agent governance products between August 24 and early September 2026. The window between the first launch and the last was roughly two weeks. None of them waited for the agents to figure out their own rules first. Okta went first on August 24, making Agent SSO generally available […]

Okta (NASDAQ:OKTA) President and COO Eric Kelleher said enterprise customers are increasingly seeking guidance on securing AI agents, with uncertainty around the emerging technology representing a central challenge for the identity-security market. Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Techn

Okta (OKTA) has been one of the stocks most watched by Zacks.com users lately. So, it is worth exploring what lies ahead for the stock.