Security and risk management leaders should use this Market Guide as an aid to anticipating future trends, features and integration capabilities in the IGA market. This will help them make better procurement decisions in light of the typical five-to-eight-year life span of IGA tools.
Overview
Key Findings
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The identity governance and administration (IGA) market continues to mature, having shifted focus from providing services from the cloud to managing other cloud assets and integrating additional capabilities into its core tools.
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Security and risk management (SRM) leaders face an assessment challenge. On the one hand, they must assess IGA products against short-term requirements, such as cloud entitlement governance. On the other, they must, at the same time, assess these products’ long-term ability to participate in an underpinning identity fabric in which insights from identity and access management (IAM) tools are shared reciprocally with insights from adjacent tools.
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The operational overheads associated with various IGA solutions differ. It is important to look beyond the purely technical capabilities of these solutions and evaluate how (and how easily) they can be deployed, integrated and operated within an existing environment.
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The number of machine identities (for devices, workloads and robots) is surging, particularly with the adoption of DevOps and the requirement to deliver in a fast-paced culture. Many organizations lack tools to manage the life cycle of these new types of identity, so they are looking for IGA offerings to fill the gap.