2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management

Gartner defines the privileged access management (PAM) market as a foundational security technology to protect accounts, credentials and operations that offer an elevated (“privileged”) level of access. 

PAM tools control privileged access for machines (systems or applications) for internal or machine-to-machine communication, and for people who administer or configure systems and applications.

The capabilities of PAM include:

1. Discovery of privileged accounts across multiple systems, infrastructure and applications
2. Credential management for privileged accounts
3. Delegation of access to privileged accounts
4. Session establishment, management, monitoring and recording for interactive privileged access
5. Controlled elevation of commands
6. Secrets management for applications, service and devices
7. Privileged task automation (PTA)
8. Remote privileged access for workforce and external users

Gartner's evaluation -

Leaders:

• Cyber Ark
• BeyondTrust
• Centrify
• Thycotic
• One Identity
• ARCON

Challengers:

• senhasegura
• WALLIX

Niche Players

• Broadcom (Symantec)
• Krontech