Identity and access management is changing fast.
IGA, PAM, NHIs and AI agents are starting to collide, and security teams need a better way to govern access across all of it.
Privileged access used to be easier to define. A human logged in. A role was assigned. A system was accessed. That world is gone.
Today, access moves across users, service accounts, workloads, cloud resources and AI agents. The result is a much broader attack surface and a much harder governance problem.
In this 451 Research Market Insight Report, Garrett Bekker looks at several shifts shaping the identity and access market, including the convergence of IGA and PAM, the rise of nonhuman identities and the emergence of agentic identities.
The report also looks at why traditional PAM architectures were not designed for this level of cloud, automation and agent-driven access.
Topics covered in the report
- Why privileged access and employee access rights remain top identity pain points
- Why IGA and PAM adoption still sits below 50%
- How AI agents and NHIs are changing the access control problem
- Why runtime authorization is becoming a more important part of modern privilege
This report was licensed to P0 Security and published as part of S&P Global’s syndicated market insight subscription service.
