2023 SC Awards Finalists: Best Identity Management Solution  

1Kosmos BlockID combines identity verification and passwordless multi-factor authentication to prevent identity impersonation, account takeover, and fraud. This digital identity cloud service aims to offer a seamless user experience, providing a secure digital wallet for passwordless access to online applications and resources. BlockID caters to businesses and government agencies, modernizing customer, employee, and citizen identity verification, onboarding, and authentication. BlockID merges identity proofing and passwordless multi-factor authentication, certified for iBeta Biometric PAD-2 Liveness, NIST 800-63-3, and FIDO2. It uses private blockchain technology, ensuring privacy by design and compliance with GDPR and SOC2 standards. The platform integrates with various operating systems, SSO gateways, cloud applications, and platforms, providing flexibility and quick ROI. 1Kosmos BlockID has been developed for enterprises, financial and healthcare service providers, retailers, and government agencies.

CyberArk Identity, part of the CyberArk Identity Security Platform, offers security-first identity management products that protect thousands of business-critical applications and endpoints from data breaches caused by compromised credentials. The platform aims to unify single sign-on (SSO), adaptive multi-factor authentication (MFA), user behavior analytics (UBA), lifecycle management, and directory services into an integrated product, delivering heightened protection and enhanced productivity across the entire identity lifecycle. CyberArk’s identity management products are tightly integrated with its Identity Security Platform and built from a security-first perspective. As a SaaS offering, CyberArk Identity offers a scalable, cost-effective, and resource-efficient product, which helps businesses meet budgetary expectations and reduce security-related expenditures. CyberArk serves over 50% of the Fortune 500 and 35% of the Global 2000, leading the Identity Security category. It’s recognized as a leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Access Management, KuppingerCole Analysts’ Leadership Compass reports for Passwordless Authentication and Access Management, and the Forrester Wave for Identity as a Service (IDaaS).

ForgeRock addresses the growing need for digital security in enterprises by offering a comprehensive identity and access management platform to manage, secure, and govern identities at scale. With more than 1,300 customers and more than 4 billion identities managed in some 50 countries, ForgeRock’s Identity Platform features end-to-end, AI-driven capabilities and seamless implementation across all identities, environments, and devices. ForgeRock claims the platform can streamline up to 90% of access privileges and automate over 50% of user access requests, reducing both risk and administrative costs. ForgeRock’s platform offers an AI-driven identity lifecycle, passwordless model, and autonomous access. Additionally, the platform promises significant cost savings and return on investment (ROI) for its customers. As the fourth largest identity and access provider in North America, ForgeRock has been recognized by industry analysts for its robust customer identity and access management (CIAM) products and passwordless authentication capabilities.

SailPoint Technologies has developed an advanced Identity Security Platform to address the growing complexity of managing and securing digital identities. The platform uses AI and machine learning to deliver autonomous risk detection, mitigation, smart process orchestration, identity and lifecycle management, and access provisioning. SailPoint’s recent innovations include contextual insights, persona-based reporting, and the an Outlier Score, which standardizes the measurement of access risk and offers deeper insights into permission anomalies. SailPoint’s aims to help organizations manage and control access across all enterprise systems, from legacy applications to SaaS offerings. SailPoint manages identities for 59% of  the Forbes World’s Most Valuable Brands and claims 95% customer retention rate. The company’s comprehensive approach to identity management offers businesses with visibility and automation.

Strata Identity has introduced the Maverics Identity Orchestration Platform, which addresses the need for consistent identity and policy management across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Maverics aims to help organizations modernize application identities on any cloud using any identity provider (IDP) without rewriting applications. The platform supports cloud-based authentication from major providers such as Azure AD, Google Cloud Platform, AWS, and Okta. Strata’s approach to identity management lets organizations break free from vendor lock-in and seamlessly transition workloads to the cloud. The Maverics Identity Orchestration Platform was designed to solve enterprise identity management and security challenges that arise as organizations migrate applications to the cloud and adopt additional identity services. Strata has also spearheaded the creation of a new policy orchestration standard called Identity Query Language (IDQL) and the open-source Hexa identity orchestration software, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) sandbox project.