The Identity Map / IAM
Access Management & IAM Platforms
Workforce single sign-on, MFA, directory, and federation: the identity front door for employees.
Access management is the front door of workforce identity. These platforms hold the directory of who works at a company, authenticate them once, and federate that single session out to every downstream application through SSO, MFA, and adaptive policy. This is the most consolidated branch of the tree, dominated by a few cloud giants, and almost every other category in this map plugs into it.
Top picks
Microsoft (Entra ID) · Okta · Ping Identity · IBM (Verify) · Oracle
17 vendors on this branch
Microsoft (Entra ID)
Top pickUSA
Cloud IAM, SSO, MFA, directory
Formerly Azure AD; market giant
View full profilePing Identity
AcquiredUSA
Enterprise access management, federation
Thoma Bravo; absorbed ForgeRock + Procyon
View full profileCisco (Duo)
AcquiredUSA
MFA, access, zero trust
Acquired by Cisco (2018); now Cisco Duo
View full profileThales (SafeNet Trusted Access)
France
Access management, MFA, passwordless
Gartner Visionary AM 2025
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