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25/06/2026 3:14 pm
TL;DR: Traditional IAM boundaries are breaking down faster than many programmes can reconcile, with KuppingerCole naming CyberArk an Overall Leader in its 2025 Identity Fabrics compass and highlighting a shift away from identity silos toward connected governance across workforce, developer, IT, machine, and AI access in complex enterprises.
Editorial analysis by NHI Mgmt Group, based on content published by CyberArk: “CyberArk Named an Overall Leader in 2025 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Identity Fabrics”.
Key questions
Q: What breaks when identity silos are still in place for workforce, machine and AI access?
A: Identity silos create local control but global inconsistency.
Q: Why do identity fabrics matter for zero trust programs?
A: Zero trust depends on continuous, shared identity context.
Q: What are the main governance mistakes teams make when expanding IAM to machine and AI access?
A: Teams often bolt machine or AI access onto human-era IAM processes without ownership, lifecycle or privilege rules that fit the new actor type.
Practitioner guidance
- Map identity decision seams Identify where provisioning, authentication, privilege elevation and access reviews are handled in different tools or teams.
- Unify governance for non-human identities Bring service accounts, workloads, API keys and certificates into the same inventory, ownership and review model used for other high-risk identities.
- Align PAM with IGA and access management Make sure entitlement changes, privilege elevation and revocation are visible to the same governance process so privileged access does not escape lifecycle controls.
Bottom line: Identity fabrics respond to a governance problem created by fragmented access control across workforce, machine and AI identities.
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This topic was modified 10 hours ago by NHI Mgmt Group
25/06/2026 4:39 pm
Identity fabrics are becoming the control plane because access governance can no longer be operated as separate human and machine programmes. The article reflects a structural shift in enterprise identity: the access plane now has to govern workforce, developer, IT, machine and AI identities together. That changes the governance problem from point control to connected policy, because privilege and lifecycle decisions now cross more actor types than most legacy IAM stacks were designed to handle. Practitioners should read this as a model-change signal, not a product-category update.
A question worth separating out:
Q: How should security leaders assess whether their identity architecture is truly unified?
A: Start by testing whether one policy model can explain who has access, why it exists and how it is revoked across workforce, IT, developer, machine and AI identities. If the answer changes by system or team, the architecture is still fragmented even if the tools are well integrated.
👉 Read our full editorial: Identity fabrics are becoming the new control plane for modern access
This post was modified 10 hours ago by NHI Mgmt Group