According to Gartner, this research “highlights emerging risks and opportunities, enabling informed decisions in the evolving IGA market.”
DENVER, Sept. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Pathlock, the global leader in Converged Identity Governance, ERP Cross-Application Security and GRC Controls Automation for the Agentic Era, announced today it has been included in the 2026 Gartner Market Guide for Identity Governance and Administration as a Representative Vendor.
The report states that, “in 2026, IGA is evolving from legacy, quarterly cycles of manual access reviews to an autonomous, continuous, and outcome-driven process that encompasses both access certification and provisioning.”
Among its key findings, the research notes that “organizations lack comprehensive visibility into their identity landscape, leaving shadow identities, orphaned accounts, and dormant credentials unmonitored.” It also finds that “Manual compliance processes are time-consuming and error-prone, leading to gaps in audit trails and misalignment with regulatory requirements.”
Gartner recommends that organizations “prioritize the adoption of AI-enabled IGA platforms to proactively manage identity risks, streamline compliance, and support scalable operations.”
Pathlock is an AI-native and multi-tenant platform that unifies identity governance, access risk analysis, elevated access management, application controls, and continuous monitoring into a single solution. By combining fine-grained access governance with real-time transaction-level analytics, Pathlock helps organizations to enforce controls, detect risky behavior, and ensure compliance. Pathlock delivers real-time intelligence on every transaction — performed by users, bots, and AI agents — across mission-critical systems, whether an organization needs to support continuous controls monitoring, conduct an investigation, or satisfy an auditor request.
“We are pleased to be recognized as a Representative Vendor in the 2026 Gartner Market Guide for Identity Governance and Administration. We believe our inclusion reflects Pathlock’s vision for continuous, transaction-first governance in the Agentic Era. Organizations must now govern both human and non-human identities, including an array of service accounts, bots, and AI agents, along with the activity they generate across critical business applications. Traditional IGA is not designed to provide this level of visibility. Pathlock helps organizations address this gap, enabling them to understand who or what has access, how that access is being used, and where risk is emerging – in real time.
— Damon Tompkins, CEO, Pathlock
For more information, a complimentary copy of the 2026 Gartner Market Guide for Identity Governance and Administration can be downloaded here: https://pathlock.com/resources/reports/gartner-market-guide-for-iga/.
Source: Gartner, “Market Guide for Identity Governance and Administration” by Rebecca Archambault, Brian Guthrie, Paul Mezzera, Steve Wessels, 28 August 2026.
DISCLAIMER:
Gartner is a trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. Gartner does not endorse any company, vendor, product or service depicted in its publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s business and technology insights organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this publication, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
ABOUT PATHLOCK
Pathlock is the global leader in Converged Identity Governance, ERP Cross-Application Security and GRC Controls Automation for the Agentic Era, trusted by Global 2000 organizations running the world’s most complex SAP, Oracle, and Workday environments. By converging identity, governance, and assurance on a single platform, Pathlock helps enterprises prevent fraud, pass audits, and govern every identity — human and non-human — and every transaction they execute, at scale. Learn more at pathlock.com.
Media Contact
[email protected]
View original content to download multimedia:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pathlock-recognized-as-a-representative-vendor-in-the-2026-gartner-market-guide-for-identity-governance-and-administration-302870284.html
SOURCE Pathlock
