Access Management

Workforce AM vendors present unique and innovative features. CIAM vendors continue to offer differential capabilities for machine IAM support and enhanced capabilities to support complex CIAM and partner requirements. IAM leaders should focus on the features that differentiate vendors in this market.

Market Definition

Gartner defines access management (AM) as tools that include authentication, authorization, single sign-on (SSO) and adaptive access capabilities for modern standards-based web applications, classic web applications and APIs.

AM’s purpose is to give people (employees, consumers and other users) and machines access to protected applications in a streamlined and consistent way that enhances the user experience. For people, SSO is part of the enhanced experience. AM is also responsible for providing security controls to protect the user session during runtime. It enforces authentication and runtime authorization using adaptive access. Lastly, AM can provide identity context for other cybersecurity tools and reliant applications to enable identity-first security.

Report 2025

Here is a summary of the vendors featured in the Gartner magic quadrant 2025 report.
For the full analysis and detailed insights, you can read the report here and view the magic quadrant graphic here.

Market Status	Market Vendor
Leader	Ping Identity
Leader	Microsoft
Leader	Okta
Leader	Transmit Security
Leader	IBM
Visionary	Thales
Niche Player	OpenText
Niche Player	One Identity
Niche Player	RSA
Niche Player	Alibaba Cloud
Challenger	CyberArk
Challenger	Entrust

Report 2024

Here is a summary of the vendors featured in the Gartner magic quadrant 2024 report.
For the full analysis and detailed insights, you can read the report here and view the magic quadrant graphic here.

Market Status	Market Vendor
Leader	Microsoft
Leader	Okta
Leader	Ping Identity
Leader	IBM
Visionary	Thales
Niche Player	OpenText
Niche Player	One Identity
Niche Player	RSA
Challenger	CyberArk
Challenger	Entrust