At One Identity, we are proud to share that Gartner has recognized us as a Challenger in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management (PAM).
We believe our Challenger placement is a recognition that reflects how well we execute: we are delighting the customers we serve, retaining them over the long term, and building a position that is well suited for what comes next.
In a market where privileged access now reaches far beyond a handful of administrators, we believe this placement reflects a simple approach: make PAM easier to deploy, easier to use, and easier to afford, without sacrificing control.
Why delighting customers and a strong ability to execute matters to us and you
We believe execution is the part of a vendor's story that buyers feel on day one: how a product deploys, how it performs, how a vendor supports its customers, and whether those customers choose to stay. That is where we have focused, and we believe our placement reflects it.
Our customers say the same thing: Safeguard by One Identity holds a 4.7 out of 5 rating on Gartner Peer Insights
across 330+ reviews, with 96% of reviewers willing to recommend it, as of October 2026.
Gartner positioned us as a Visionary in its 2025 Magic Quadrant and as a Challenger in 2026. We believe this move, driven by a strong gain on the Ability to Execute axis, reflects how well we are delivering on the vision we set.
What we believe our placement reflects
We believe our placement reflects the following strengths of the Safeguard by One Identity portfolio:
- Safeguard product excellence: Safeguard covers privileged account and session management (PASM), privilege elevation and delegation management (PEDM), and remote privileged access management (RPAM) on one platform, with Safeguard On Demand delivering PASM as software as a service (SaaS). Full-text searchable session recording with optical character recognition (OCR) lets teams find exactly what happened in a session.
- Customer experience: Customers choose Safeguard for an interface that is easier to learn and a platform that is less complex to run. Our growth in Gartner Peer Insights reviews, from 11 to 197, tells us customers are willing to put their names behind that experience.
- Faster time to value: Teams get from purchase to protected accounts quickly, with less services effort along the way.
- Pricing and value: A lower total cost of ownership (TCO) means security teams can extend privileged access controls to more systems and more people, rather than rationing them.
- Non-human identity coverage: Safeguard extends privileged controls to service accounts, applications, and automation, which matters as non-human identities multiply.
Seven must-have capabilities defining modern PAM
To meet the demands of today's hybrid, multi-cloud and machine-heavy environments, PAM must do more than vault passwords. Here are the seven capabilities we believe matter most, and how Safeguard by One Identity delivers them.
- Unified, comprehensive PAM. Safeguard brings together PASM, PEDM, and RPAM so teams manage privileged accounts, elevation, and vendor access from one platform instead of stitching tools together.
- Flexible deployment. Run Safeguard On Demand as SaaS or deploy it as a Self-Managed solution, whichever fits your regulatory and operational needs.
- Streamlined implementation. A simpler architecture means less to design, less to maintain, and a faster path to protecting your first privileged accounts.
- Improved usability. An easier interface helps administrators, auditors, and requesters get their work done without a long learning curve.
- Session intelligence. Full-text searchable session recording with OCR turns recordings into evidence you can search in seconds.
- Coverage for non-human identities. Service accounts, application credentials, and automation need the same privileged controls as people. Safeguard extends them there.
- Governance built in. Together with Identity Manager by One Identity, Safeguard supports privileged access governance, so access reviews and certifications cover privileged accounts as well as standard ones.
The future of PAM: simplicity, intelligence, and scale
As organizations add cloud workloads, automation, and AI agents, the number of privileged identities keeps growing faster than the teams who protect them. The answer is not more complexity. It is PAM that is simple enough to deploy everywhere and smart enough to show you what matters.
That is where we are investing. We will keep strengthening Safeguard for non-human identities, deepening the link between privileged access and identity governance and continuing to make the platform easier to run. We believe our focus on customers is what brought us this placement, and it is what will carry us forward.
About DT Asia
DT Asia began in 2007 with a clear mission to build the market entry for various pioneering IT security solutions from the US, Europe and Israel.
Today, DT Asia is a regional, value-added distributor of cybersecurity solutions providing cutting-edge technologies to key government organisations and top private sector clients including global banks and Fortune 500 companies. We have offices and partners around the Asia Pacific to better understand the markets and deliver localised solutions.
How we help
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