Frequently Asked Questions

Insurance risk often appears after login in policy views, address changes, beneficiary updates, claim submissions, payout requests, broker quotes, and admin actions. None of these should inherit the same level of trust. Continuous verification helps insurers apply the right control at the right moment based on user, device, behavior, relationship, claim, policy, jurisdiction, and risk context.

By combining risk intelligence, identity verification, biometric person continuity, orchestration, and action-aware authorization, your legitimate customers can move faster while high-risk activity is challenged, limited, or denied. With adaptive journeys, you only step up security measures when risk requires it.

Identity can reduce repeated registration, duplicate verification, disruptive MFA, recovery friction, and disconnected product journeys. With Ping Identity, insurers can orchestrate low-friction onboarding, trusted login, secure recovery, claims continuity, consent capture, and cross-product engagement while preserving trust.

Insurers need more than static federation and broad roles. Ping Identity helps govern broker and partner access using delegated administration, agency hierarchy, relationship-based authorization, adaptive step-up, access governance, and audit trails across quotes, binding, servicing, claims, APIs, and partner workflows.

Ping Identity helps insurers verify claimants and partners, assess risk during FNOL and document upload, secure call center handoffs, govern vendor and repairer access, and authorize payouts based on claim type, payout value, claimant role, vendor role, jurisdiction, and risk context. Claims move faster and safer, and stay trusted.

AI agents need their own identities, permissions, lifecycle controls, monitoring, and audit trails. Ping Identity helps insurers authenticate AI agents, bind them to the right human or business principal, enforce delegated authority, apply least privilege, require human review for sensitive actions, and log every action for accountability.

Ping Identity Scores Highest in All Gartner® Critical Capabilities Use Cases

I’m thrilled to share that Ping Identity has scored highest across all five Use Cases – Customer, Workforce, Partner (B2B), Machine, and Application Development Support – in the 2025 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Access Management (AM). I could not be prouder of the work our team has done to deliver world-class identity and access management (IAM) capabilities that help our customers deliver world-class user experiences with uncompromising security.

 

Serving as a companion to the Magic Quadrant™ for Access Management, the Gartner® Critical Capabilities report offers a deeper analysis of vendors' products and services. While the Magic Quadrant™ evaluates vendors based on their overall vision and execution, this report allows you to “easily compare product and service offerings against a set of critical differentiators to support your strategic decisions.”

Customer AM

For Customer IAM, providing consumers with secure, low-friction experiences is paramount. Ping scored highest (4.05/5):

 

2025 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Access Management report Product or Service Scores for Customer Access Management

Workforce AM

Workforce access management requires a balance between robust security and seamless user experiences. Ping scored highest (4.28/5):

 

2025 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Access Management report Product or Service Scores for Workforce Access Management

Partner (B2B) AM

We deliver comprehensive B2B solutions. Ping scored highest (4.34/5) for Partner AM.

 

2025 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Access Management report Product or Service Scores for Partner Access Management

Application Development Support

Ping Identity scored highest (4.31/5) for Application Development Support Use Case.

 

2025 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Access Management report Product or Service Scores for Application Development Support

Why This Matters To Us

Enterprises today are navigating a complex IT environment, seeking to unlock business value while reducing complexity and optimizing costs. We believe rationalizing vendors and consolidating IAM solutions play a critical role in achieving these goals. Furthermore, we feel that by partnering with Ping Identity, organizations can drive top-line growth through enhanced customer engagement and seamless user experiences, while simultaneously streamlining costs and improving operational efficiency.

 

Effective identity and access management is essential for protecting against malicious actors and ensuring data security in a complex digital environment. Capabilities like single sign-on (SSO), lifecycle management, adaptive access controls, and robust integration not only safeguard assets, but also streamline operations, enabling organizations to focus on growth and innovation.

 

By delivering best-in-class capabilities for managing user identities, securing cloud-based applications, and mitigating risks, advanced IAM solutions empower organizations to stay ahead of user experience and security challenges.

 

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Figure 1 of the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Access Management report

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Gartner, Critical Capabilities for Access Management, Nathan Harris, Brian Guthrie, Abhyuday Data, Josh Murphy, 7 January 2025

 

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