Akeyless has been recognized by Gartner's 2026 Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management (PAM).
As Akeyless expands its Runtime Identity Security platform from AI agents and machine identities to human privileged access, analysts have included it in their reports.
New York and Tel Aviv, Israel, October 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Akeyless today announced its first-time inclusion in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management (PAM), alongside other vendors evaluated in the report. Akeyless is a Runtime Identity Security company that protects enterprise systems and data by securing identities of AI agents, machines, and humans.
Gartner’s 2026 Magic Quadrant for PAM evaluates vendors that manage privileged access for both human and machine identities. Akeyless has built its Runtime Identity Security platform around machine identities, workloads, and AI agents running in critical enterprise systems, securing over one billion machine identity interactions daily for Fortune 500 and Global 2000 organizations. The company is now extending this foundation to human privileged access, bringing its identity-first, just-in-time authorization approach to the broader PAM market.
Akeyless CEO and co-founder Oded Hareven said, “Being included in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management is a significant milestone for Akeyless, and we see it as validation of the direction we’ve taken from day one. We initially focused on the identities that are increasingly running businesses: machines, workloads, and AI agents. Now, we’re bringing the same approach to human privileged access. The future of PAM is governing privileged activities for every identity with a single model.”
The Akeyless Runtime Identity Security Platform unifies key management, workload identity, certificate lifecycle management, PAM, and other critical identity controls in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Akeyless offers a range of capabilities including:
- AI Agent Access and Runtime Control: Akeyless SecretlessAI® ensures credentials never enter the AI agent, while Agentic Runtime Authority manages what the agent can do after access is granted.
- Instant Credential and Key Management: Issue short-lived credentials on demand, automatically rotate them, and centrally govern keys across cloud, DevOps, Kubernetes, and enterprise environments.
- Keyless machine access: Use workload identities based on OIDC and SPIFFE/SPIRE to authenticate machines to privileged systems without static keys, solving the "secret zero" problem.
- Dynamic Privilege Access: Grant time-limited, least-privilege access to human and machine identities without relying on permanent privileged accounts.
- Unified PAM and Key Governance: Enforce consistent policies, lifecycle controls, and auditing for privileged access, keys, and existing key storage through a single platform.
- Zero-knowledge architecture: Its patented Distributed Fragments Cryptography™ keeps sensitive cryptographic materials secure and under customer control.
Gartner’s inclusion follows broader analyst recognition of Akeyless across multiple identity security categories. KuppingerCole named Akeyless a Leader in Overall, Product, and Innovation in its 2025 Leadership Compass for Enterprise Key Management, followed by recognizing it as a Product and Innovation Leader in Non-Human Identity Management. Akeyless has also recently received industry recognition from the Global InfoSec Awards and Cybersecurity Excellence Awards in areas including AI Agent Identity Security, Machine Identity Security, Key Management, and Identity and Access Management.
Download a free copy of the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management to learn more.
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management, by Paul Mezzera, Shubham Gera, Tarun Rohilla, Scott Brinker, October 21, 2026
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About Akeyless
Akeyless provides runtime identity security for AI agents, machines, and humans. Trusted by Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises, the platform secures one billion identity interactions daily by issuing, enforcing, and revoking permissions at agent scale to prevent breaches caused by credential exposure and privilege abuse. Akeyless’s AI agent capabilities include SecretlessAI, which keeps credentials out of agents entirely, and Runtime Authority, which precisely enforces what an agent is allowed to do at the moment of action and blocks unauthorized operations before they execute. Learn more at akeyless.io.
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