Gartner® Report: Hype Cycle™ for Digital Identity, 2026
Your identity attack surface is growing faster than your team can track. AI agents and machine identities now outnumber your human accounts, and Gartner says most tools cannot see or harden them fast enough. In its “Hype Cycle for Digital Identity, 2026,” Gartner names Silverfort a Sample Vendor in three disciplines closing that gap: IVIP, ISPM, and ITDR.
According to Gartner, “Gartner 2025 Machine Identity survey revealed that 94% of organizations are dealing with increased machine identities, largely driven by AI and AI agent deployments.”
We believe the report also maps emerging categories reshaping 2026 strategy, including AI Agent Security and Workload Identity Management, alongside the access controls needed to secure them.
Use this report to see where identity visibility, posture management, and threat detection fit into your roadmap, and which capabilities matter most as AI agents and workloads reshape your environment.
Our key takeaways from the report:
- Why Gartner sees identity visibility and intelligence platforms (IVIP) as critical to closing blind spots across your hybrid environment
- How identity security posture management (ISPM) helps your team find and fix misconfigurations before attackers do
- Why identity threat detection and response (ITDR) is becoming a required layer beyond access management and PAM
- How machine identities and AI agents are reshaping your identity attack surface, per Gartner analysis
- Where Silverfort is named a Sample Vendor across IVIP, ISPM, and ITDR
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Gartner, “Hype Cycle for Digital Identity, 2026,” Zachary Smith, Nayara Sangiorgio, 6 July 2026.
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