Identity Access Management

The channel is where privileged access management deals are actually won, and it is also where they most often stall. A recent partner spotlight on Delinea is a useful prompt…

Agentic AI has become the identity industry’s favourite framing device, and BeyondTrust’s recent commentary lands on a deliberately unfashionable point: the problem autonomous agents create is not new. It is…

Privileged access has long lived in a separate lane from the tools service desks use every day. An engineer needs elevated rights to resolve a ticket, so they request access…

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…

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’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…

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…

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…

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,…

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 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…

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…