2026 Gartner^® Predicts: Identity and Access Management Reprint

2026 Gartner^® Predicts: Identity and Access Management gives you four Strategic Planning Assumptions, Market Implications and Recommendations. Read it before 2027 planning closes.

Your 2027 identity budget gets defended in the next two quarters. An outside forecast helps in that room.

According to the report, identity has emerged as the primary attack surface due to the exponential growth and increased complexity of managing human and machine identities, leaving visibility gaps left by isolated IAM tools and increasing the likelihood of misconfigurations.

Four Strategic Planning Assumptions:

• By 2028, 70% of CISOs will utilize identity visibility and intelligence capabilities to shrink the IAM attack surface, reducing the risks of credential compromise.
• By 2028, 30% of organizations will no longer allow service desk interactions for workforce account recovery, relying exclusively on self-service to reduce social engineering risks.
• By 2029, humans will no longer interactively log into systems, and machines will proxy all access for all systems, reducing ATO by 80%.
• By 2029, organizations that implement phishing-resistant MFA will experience 80% fewer security breaches than those relying on legacy authentication methods.

You also get the analyst recommendations behind each assumption, starting with a gap assessment that finds where isolated IAM systems leave blind spots. We believe all four ask the same question first: can you name every identity in your environment, human and machine, and say what each one can reach?

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Prefer the short version first? Read our take on the four predictions and what has come true.