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How Aembit Makes Cross App Access Usable Before the Rest of the Stack Catches Up 

Emma Zaballos
Emma Zaballos Sep 2026 | 4 min read
Promotional graphic showing the Aembit dashboard with the Credential Providers section open and an Atlassian MCP EMA configuration form on screen. Some sensitive fields are intentionally blurred. A banner across the bottom reads, “Aembit Now Supports Okta Cross App Access,” set over a dark purple background with abstract connected-line graphics and orange gradient spheres.

4 min readOkta this week is introducing Cross App Access (XAA) at Oktane, a new standard designed to let a user’s existing SSO session authorize downstream applications without requiring a separate consent flow for each one. In the MCP ecosystem, the broader model is known as Enterprise-Managed Authorization (EMA).  We’re launching support for both today as an […]

XAA removes a growing source of agent friction, but uneven support across the enterprise ecosystem makes the transition the harder problem to solve.
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