Gartner® Recognizes Radiant Logic in the 2025 Hype Cycle™ for Zero Trust

In many places in the world, Zero Trust has shifted from being a security philosophy to a mandate by regulators, including the U.S., as discussed in California’s Countdown to Zero Trust—A Practical Path Through Radiant Logic. Gartner’s 2025 Hype Cycle for Zero Trust Technology highlights identity as the foundation for Zero Trust success and names Radiant Logic as a Sample Vendor enabling that foundation in the AI for Access Administration category. 

Across both public and private sectors, the push for implementing Zero Trust is accelerating. California’s Assembly Bill 869, for example, requires every executive-branch agency to demonstrate a mature Zero Trust architecture by June 2026. This is one example of how regulations are putting firm dates on adoption. Gartner’s recognition underscores why Radiant Logic matters in this context.

Zero Trust depends not only on reliable identity data but also on making that data accessible. The challenge for most organizations is not the lack of Zero Trust tools but the difficulty of getting the right identity data. Attributes, context, and relationships all need to be provided to the tools in a format and way that these can be used.

Without that foundation, Zero Trust efforts typically stall.  

Why Identity is Central to Zero Trust 

The National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST) defines Zero Trust around a simple idea: never trust, always verify. Every request must be authenticated and authorized in its context. Yet in most enterprises, identity data is fragmented across directories, cloud services, HR systems, and contractor databases. This is the reality of what we call identity sprawl. When accounts linger after employees leave or when attributes are out of date, even the best MFA solutions or EDR policies falter. 

Gartner cautions that organizations lacking visibility into their identity data face both elevated security risks and operational inefficiencies. Zero Trust controls cannot deliver on their promise if they operate on incomplete or inconsistent input. That means that the result is only as good as the underlying identity data.  

Radiant Logic’s Role 

RadiantOne unifies identity data from every source into a single, correlated view of every identity, whether human or non-human. That fabric becomes the authoritative context that Zero Trust controls require and need to be successful. This foundation lets MFA policies adapt dynamically to current identity and device signals while, at the same time, unifying log files under a single identifier and enabling Zero Trust access, network segmentation, and more. So why is this important? Many regulatory initiatives are tightening up the reporting should a breach occur; therefore, correlating identities into a single view streamlines forensic work and ultimately allows for swift signaling or reporting to a competent authority.  

The importance of identity data hygiene is that it allows organizations to detect dormant accounts, stale entitlements, and toxic combinations before auditors or adversaries find them.

Maintaining this hygiene is critical to mitigating risk and ensuring that Zero Trust policies are enforced on accurate, trustworthy data. By ensuring Zero Trust policies run on clean, governed identity data, Radiant Logic enables organizations to enforce least privilege, reduce the attack surface, and meet compliance obligations in a timely fashion. 

The Business Impact 

For CISOs, this reduces risk by closing identity gaps before attackers exploit them. 

For CIOs, it modernizes access controls without disrupting legacy systems. 

For compliance leaders, it provides defensible evidence for regulatory audits and mandates and, in case of a breach, a swift response to regulators signaling and reporting requirements. 

Zero Trust is no longer an academic philosophic idea — it is operational to modern security. Gartner’s recognition of Radiant Logic validates our role in making it achievable, practical, and provable. 

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The full report can be downloaded here. Discover how Radiant Logic strengthens Zero Trust initiatives with unified, real-time identity data and intelligence. To discuss with an identity and Zero Trust expert, contact us today.