Identity and access management (IAM) is no longer just a behind-the-scenes function. It's the foundation of digital trust for modern enterprises. As organizations look to balance stronger security with frictionless experiences, Ping continues to lead the way forward.

We're proud to share that Ping Identity has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Access Management for the ninth consecutive year, positioned highest in Ability to Execute and furthest in Completeness of Vision (for the second year in a row).

Ping also scored highest across three use cases—Workforce Access Management, Partner Access Management, and Machine Access Management—in the 2025 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Access Management.

Proud of Our Upper-Right MQ Placement

The Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Access Management evaluates vendors based on their Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. Ping Identity's upper-right leadership placement validates not only our technological strength, but also our continued innovation and execution at enterprise scale.

Some key highlights of Gartner's 2025 evaluation of Ping Identity:

• Product strength: Advanced capabilities across every user constituency, including partner management, delegated administration, decentralized identity, orchestration, API access control, and machine access management.
• Market understanding: Deep expertise in regulated industries such as banking, insurance, and financial services—paired with solutions that address deepfake threats, AI-driven identity fraud, and impersonation attacks.
• User experience: Continued innovation in orchestration and personalization, making identity seamless for end users without compromising security or compliance.

Together, these factors reinforce why Ping continues to be recognized as a Leader, and it emphasizes why we're positioned highest in execution and furthest in vision this year.

Top Scores Across the Most Demanding Use Cases

The 2025 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Access Management report provides a quantitative analysis of vendor performance across five use cases. Ping Identity achieved the highest scores in Workforce Access Management, Partner Access Management, and Machine Access Management. This demonstrates our technical expertise in solving the most critical and most demanding enterprise use cases.

Ping also received high scores in Customer Access Management and Application Development Support, highlighting our platform's broad capabilities, versatility, and strength across diverse identity scenarios.

The scores reflect Gartner's independent evaluation as published in the 2025 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Access Management report (5.0 being the highest possible score).

Why This Recognition Matters

Being named a Leader for nine consecutive years—and achieving top scores across multiple access management use cases—speaks to more than our product capabilities. It reflects a consistent vision: to make identity the enabler of secure digital transformation.

Our approach is built on three pillars:

• Adaptive security: AI-driven identity threat detection and response to anticipate and mitigate risk in real time.
• Orchestration and extensibility: Design seamless, secure user journeys across all systems and touchpoints.
• Open innovation: Support for decentralized identity, verifiable credentials, and agentic AI identity management to enable trusted ecosystems.

The Future of Identity and Access Management

As enterprises embrace automation, AI, and verified trust, access management is becoming the connective layer of digital ecosystems. Gartner's latest research reflects this shift, and so does our roadmap.

We believe the next evolution of identity will be defined by:

• AI agent identity management: Securing autonomous agents acting on behalf of users and systems.
• Verified trust: Moving from implicit to explicit to verified trust, where every user, device, and action is proven—not assumed.
• Decentralized identity: Giving individuals more control of their data while strengthening enterprise assurance.

Ping Identity is committed to leading this transformation, helping organizations move beyond legacy IAM toward secure, intelligent, and future-ready identity experiences.

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