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25/06/2026 12:37 am
TL;DR: The IGA market grew 9.2% from 2023 to 2024 and is forecast to grow 10.7% from 2024 to 2025, according to Pathlock research, with security and business enablement overtaking compliance as the main adoption drivers. IGA is increasingly being bought as a risk and productivity control, not just an audit checkbox.
Editorial analysis by NHI Mgmt Group, based on content published by Pathlock: “Pathlock Recognized in the 2025 Gartner® Market Guide for Identity Governance and Administration”.
By the numbers:
- Gartner forecasts 10.7% growth from 2024 to 2025 for the IGA market, according to Gartner research cited by Pathlock.
Key questions
Q: How should organisations measure IGA maturity beyond a simple audit checklist?
A: Measure whether access governance is closed-loop.
Q: Why do compliance-led IGA programmes struggle in mature enterprises?
A: Because compliance alone does not capture the operational and security outcomes leaders now expect.
Q: What breaks when an IGA platform cannot reissue entitlements during role changes?
A: Users can lose access they still need after moving into a new role, which creates operational disruption and forces manual recovery.
Practitioner guidance
- Reframe IGA success metrics Measure whether your programme reduces access risk, improves decision quality, and shortens governance cycles, not just whether reviews are completed on time.
- Map governance to business outcomes Tie identity governance outcomes to audit readiness, productivity, and risk reduction so stakeholders can evaluate whether the current model is doing more than checking compliance boxes.
- Increase entitlement-level analysis Review whether SoD and access certification processes operate at the entitlement level, where toxic combinations and misuse are more visible than in coarse role models.
Bottom line: The article reflects a clear market shift: IGA is being evaluated for risk reduction and business enablement as much as for compliance.
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25/06/2026 9:33 am
IGA buying criteria are widening beyond compliance, and that changes how programmes should be judged. Gartner’s market framing shows that security and business enablement are now primary adoption drivers alongside compliance. That means the old question, 'does it satisfy the audit?', is no longer enough for mature enterprises. The decision now is whether the governance layer can also support access risk reduction and measurable productivity gains, which is a different architectural test entirely.
A few things that frame the scale:
- Nearly 60% of IT leaders cite restrictive cost and complexity as a weakness of legacy identity governance, according to the 2025 State of Identity Governance Report.
A question worth separating out:
Q: How do access reviews and continuous monitoring work together in IGA?
A: Access reviews validate decisions at a point in time, while continuous monitoring checks whether access remains appropriate between review cycles. Used together, they reduce the gap between approved access and actual exposure. Without monitoring, governance can look current on paper while risk drifts underneath it.
👉 Read our full editorial: Pathlock’s Gartner inclusion signals a broader shift in IGA
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