Identity for employees, contractors, and partners across business apps.
11 vendors · Last updated 5/30/2026
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Workforce IAM platforms manage the full identity lifecycle for internal users — from joiner/mover/leaver to access policies across cloud and on-prem applications.
CyberArk is the market-leading privileged access management (PAM) platform, providing credential vaulting, privileged session management, endpoint privilege management, and secrets management for enterprise security programs.
Microsoft Entra ID is Microsoft's cloud-based identity and access management service, providing SSO, MFA, Conditional Access, and identity governance tightly integrated with Microsoft 365 and Azure.
Okta is a leading cloud-native identity and access management platform offering SSO, MFA, lifecycle management, and identity governance for enterprise workforce and customer-facing applications.
Ping Identity provides enterprise IAM with advanced federation, financial-grade API security, and hybrid cloud/on-premises deployment options, commonly deployed in financial services, healthcare, and government.
SailPoint is the leading enterprise identity governance and administration (IGA) platform, providing access certifications, role management, SoD policy enforcement, and lifecycle management for large organizations.
Veza provides a data-centric identity and access visibility platform, mapping what every identity can do across cloud infrastructure, SaaS, data systems, and on-premises applications to enable access governance and least-privilege enforcement.
WorkOS provides a developer API for adding enterprise identity features — SSO, SCIM directory sync, audit logs, and admin portals — to B2B SaaS applications, enabling faster enterprise sales readiness.
Aembit is a workload identity and access management platform that manages how workloads, services, and AI agents authenticate and access downstream APIs and services — without static credentials.
JumpCloud is a cloud directory platform providing unified identity management, SSO, MFA, and device management (MDM) across Windows, Mac, and Linux environments — popular with SMB and mid-market organizations.
OneLogin is a workforce identity and access management platform providing SSO, MFA, and user provisioning for mid-market organizations, now part of One Identity.
Saviynt is a cloud-native identity governance and administration platform combining IGA, privileged access management, and cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) in a single platform.
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