Top GRC solutions in 2026: what IAM teams should re-evaluate

TL;DR: GRC buying in 2026 is increasingly about whether tools can connect access controls, audit evidence, and real-time risk across business applications, according to Delinea. The underlying issue is that compliance programmes still break when governance depends on manual review, fragmented entitlements, and weak linkage to privileged behaviour.

NHIMG editorial — based on content published by Delinea: Top GRC solutions to know in 2026

By the numbers:

• 72% of organisations have experienced or suspect they have experienced a breach of non-human identities.

Questions worth separating out

Q: How should security teams evaluate GRC tools for business application governance?

A: Security teams should test whether a GRC tool can connect entitlement state, segregation-of-duties logic, and audit evidence across the applications that actually hold risk.

Q: Why do segregation-of-duties controls fail in complex enterprise applications?

A: They fail when access is analysed at the role level but risk is created at the transaction and object level.

Q: What do organisations get wrong about audit-ready reporting?

A: They often confuse report production with control effectiveness.

Practitioner guidance

• Map SoD to real transaction paths Identify the exact sequence of create, approve, post, and reconcile actions across each business application, then test whether a single identity can complete conflicting steps without detection.
• Unify access evidence with live activity Require governance reports to include current entitlements, policy state, and privileged activity so auditors can see whether access was only approved or actually exercised.
• Reduce blast radius at the lowest securable object Review object-level permissions in ERP and adjacent systems, then remove broad roles that allow unrelated transactions to be combined into one abuse path.

What's in the full article

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

• The vendor-specific feature breakdown for cross-application SoD and audit workflows in SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Salesforce, and Workday.
• The product-level comparison points used to position different GRC tools for ERP-heavy environments and compliance automation.
• The list of frameworks and regulations the vendor maps to, including the controls and reporting views used in practice.
• The implementation-oriented detail behind policy automation and privileged behaviour visibility that this analysis only frames conceptually.

👉 Read Delinea's analysis of the top GRC solutions shaping 2026 →

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