SGNL Recognized as a Cool Vendor in the 2025 Gartner® Cool Vendors™ in Identity-First Security

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SGNL, the Continuous Identity platform, today announced it has been recognized as a Cool Vendor in the 2025 Gartner® Cool Vendors™ in Identity-First Security. SGNL feels the recognition confirms SGNL's innovative approach to addressing modern identity and access management challenges. SGNL’s platform uniquely correlates identity data, business context, and security posture, and enables real-time access decisions and orchestration.

In the report, Gartner states that identity-first security "prioritizes who is accessing a resource, under what conditions, and why. Every access request becomes a decision point, governed by a real-time assessment of identity, risk signals, and context." 1

The report also specifies that "an identity-first security approach requires visibility into and control of all identities, both in the cloud and in traditional on-premises environments." 1

Beyond identity visibility to centralized, real-time orchestration

SGNL's approach extends beyond traditional identity visibility platforms by combining three critical data layers—identity, business, and security context—into a unified intelligence fabric that powers dynamic access decisions. The platform's shared policy administration and IAM orchestration capabilities enable organizations to centralize management across their identity infrastructure. SGNL doesn't just show you the problem; it enforces the solution.

"We believe this recognition validates what we've been building with Fortune 100 customers from day one—that effective access security requires centralizing and driving action on identity data, business context, and security signals in real time," said Erik Gustavson, Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of SGNL.

Delivering Continuous Identity at enterprise scale

SGNL's Continuous Identity platform addresses critical gaps in traditional IAM approaches by:

• Unifying fragmented context: Consolidating identity data, business events, and security signals into a single intelligence layer that informs access decisions
• Enabling real-time orchestration: Automatically adjusting access based on continuous evaluation of identity, risk signals, and operational context
• Eliminating standing privileges: Replacing static entitlements with dynamic, policy-driven access that adapts as conditions change
• Optimizing IAM investments: Enhancing existing IGA, PAM, and access management tools without requiring costly replacements

"The reality is that legacy tools with fragmented context and static decision-making simply can't keep pace with modern threats and the speed of business," Gustavson continued. "Continuous Identity isn't just an improvement—it's the foundation enterprises need to meet today's security demands and prepare for tomorrow's challenges. We're honored that Gartner recognizes this as the path forward."

Why the market needs a new approach now

"Our Fortune 100 customers are proving this approach works at enterprise scale. SGNL doesn't just patch the gaps in traditional IAM—it replaces fragmented tools with unified intelligence that makes real-time access decisions across their most critical systems... and accomplishing this in a few months, not years,” said Scott Kriz, CEO and Co-Founder of SGNL.

Gartner notes, "As digital transformation, cloud migration, remote work, and API-centric architectures erode the traditional enterprise perimeter, security models based on network boundaries are no longer adequate to ensure protection." 1

Among the key challenges are that "sensitive credentials remain fragmented across developer ecosystems, making it hard for security teams to monitor their usage, rotation, or exposure in real time," and "the acceleration in cloud-native tools is outpacing access governance, leaving gaps where excessive entitlements and overlooked admin access create significant operational risk." 1

SGNL's approach addresses this by treating access as a dynamic, context-aware process rather than a static permission, continuously adapting who can do what based on rapidly changing conditions across identity, security, and business systems.

Report availability

The Gartner report, "Cool Vendors in Identity-First Security," was published October 24, 2025, and is available to Gartner subscribers at https://www.gartner.com/document-reader/document/7105030.

To learn more about SGNL's Continuous Identity platform visit sgnl.ai or request a demo at sgnl.ai/demo.

About SGNL

SGNL is the enterprise platform purpose-built for Continuous Identity—trusted by Fortune 100 enterprises worldwide to eliminate standing access to cloud environments, code, and critical applications.

By centralizing fragmented identity and security context into real-time decision intelligence, SGNL anticipates, evaluates, and orchestrates access decisions at the speed of business. The platform unifies identity data, business context, and security signals to enable dynamic, policy-driven access control that eliminates standing privileges and the exposure windows attackers exploit—securing critical systems and sensitive data for both human users and AI agents while optimizing existing IAM investments. Learn more atsgnl.ai.

References

1 Gartner, “Cool Vendors in Identity-First Security,” Yemi Davies, Brian Guthrie, Nathan Harris, Rebecca Archambault, Paul Rabinovich, Steve Wessels, 24 October 2025.

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