IGA market growth: what Pathlock’s Gartner inclusion means

TL;DR: Gartner says the IGA market grew 9.2% from 2023 to 2024 and is forecast to grow 10.7% from 2024 to 2025, with security and business enablement overtaking compliance as the main adoption drivers, according to Gartner. That shift means IAM leaders need IGA programmes that can support risk reduction, operational efficiency, and audit readiness at the same time.

NHIMG editorial — based on content published by Pathlock: Pathlock included in the 2025 Gartner Market Guide for Identity Governance and Administration as a Representative Vendor

By the numbers:

• 91.6% of secrets remain valid five days after the targeted organisation is notified, showing a critical gap in remediation procedures.
• Only 5.7% of organisations have full visibility into their service accounts.
• 97% of NHIs carry excessive privileges, increasing unauthorised access and broadening the attack surface.

Questions worth separating out

Q: How should IAM teams measure whether IGA is actually working?

A: They should measure whether IGA reduces risky access conditions, not just whether reviews are completed on time.

Q: Why does IGA need to move beyond compliance reporting?

A: Because compliance reporting only proves that controls were documented at a point in time.

Q: What breaks when access reviews are the only governance control?

A: The programme misses entitlement drift between review cycles, especially in hybrid estates with frequent application change and temporary elevation.

Practitioner guidance

• Rebuild IGA success metrics Measure reduction in toxic access combinations, stale entitlements, and exception age alongside certification completion rates.
• Prioritise high-risk application clusters Start with ERP, finance, HR, and custom systems where segregation-of-duties failures create material control exposure.
• Add continuous monitoring to review cycles Use live entitlement and usage signals to flag expired exceptions, inherited privilege, and elevated access that has outlived its approval.

What's in the full analysis

Pathlock's full post covers the operational detail this post intentionally leaves for the source:

• How Pathlock positions risk-aware fine-grained governance for business-critical applications in hybrid estates.
• The specific access review, SoD, and continuous controls monitoring capabilities described in the announcement.
• The Gartner market context Pathlock cites, including the adoption drivers shaping IGA purchasing decisions.
• How the vendor frames audit readiness, IPO readiness, and enterprise change programmes such as M&A.

👉 Read Pathlock’s analysis of the 2025 Gartner Market Guide for IGA →

IGA market growth: what Pathlock’s Gartner inclusion means?

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