The 2025–2026 edition expands the horizon model to reflect AI agent governance, cloud entitlement management, and identity-centric threat detection. Based on surveys of 375 global IAM leaders, the report finds many organizations are falling behind as identity shifts from foundational control to security frontier. It highlights widening gaps between automation-driven, AI-enabled leaders and manually driven programs. Key themes include identity fabrics, adaptive trust, identity telemetry in threat response, and governance across human and non-human identities. Organizations that integrate identity, data, and security achieve stronger detection, faster response, measurable ROI, and greater resilience in AI-driven environments.

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