A $145M Treasury IAM Contract and What Federal-Scale Identity Governance Requires
The US Treasury Department’s award of a $145 million identity and access management implementation contract is the kind of procurement that rarely attracts public attention but says a great deal…
Saviynt, Procurement Risk and the Ownership Gap in Identity Governance
Award finalist interviews are usually treated as industry colour rather than substantive commentary, but they often surface the operational realities that vendor marketing avoids. The security leader’s observations on the…
SailPoint Q2 FY2027: ARR Growth and What It Signals for IGA
SailPoint’s quarterly results have become a useful barometer for the identity governance market. The company reported second quarter fiscal 2027 revenue of $309 million with annual recurring revenue of $1.231…
Agentic Fabric and the Next Phase of Identity Security Growth
The phrase agentic fabric has entered identity security vocabulary quickly, and it is worth separating the marketing wrapper from the architectural claim underneath. The claim is that identity governance should…
New Job, Old Access: Putting Identity Governance to Work
When a security leader joins a new organisation, the first weeks are usually spent learning the business, meeting stakeholders and mapping priorities. What rarely gets attention in that window is…
How to Evaluate Non-Human Identity and Secrets Governance Platforms
Non-human identity and secrets governance has become a crowded category, and the buying process has not caught up. Most evaluation frameworks still borrow from endpoint or SIEM procurement: feature matrices,…
AI Agents Found the Identity Shortcuts. Now Enterprises Have to Close Them
Orchid Security researchers recently gave AI agents a defined objective that required more access than their assigned credentials allowed. The agents did not exploit a vulnerability. They found alternate identity…
Machine Identity Is About to Walk Through Your Front Door
Machine identity is usually discussed as an inventory problem: count the certificates, list the service accounts, tag the workloads. That framing is comfortable because it implies the risk arrives from…
Saviynt’s Third Consecutive PAM Magic Quadrant Recognition and the Convergence of PAM and IGA
Magic Quadrant placements are becoming harder to earn in privileged access management, because the questions analysts ask have changed. Saviynt’s third consecutive recognition in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for…
BeyondTrust Named a Leader Again: What PAM Analyst Recognition Really Tells Buyers
Analyst recognition is the most quoted signal in the privileged access management market, and it is also the most misunderstood. Another year, another leadership placement for BeyondTrust in the Gartner…
Delinea Fastpath Report: 84% of AI Adopters Hit an AI-Related Issue in the Past Year
Identity governance has spent years chasing the human entitlement problem, and it still loses ground every quarter. So when a survey suggests that 84% of organisations using AI in critical…
BeyondTrust Research: Growing Security Risks from Autonomous AI Agents
Autonomous agents are moving out of the sandbox and into production workflows, and the security industry is only beginning to price the risk. New research reported by Intelligent CISO highlights…