The 20 Coolest Identity Access Management And Data Protection Companies Of 2025: The Security 100

From vendors offering identity and data security to providers of security service edge, here’s a look at 20 key companies in identity, access and data security.

If the growth of the identity and access management (IAM) market is any indication, the profound challenges involved with securing against identity-based attacks are far from solved for most organizations. IAM saw the second-fastest growth of any cybersecurity category in 2023 with a year-over-year revenue increase of 21.4 percent, according to the most recent figures available from research firm IDC.

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Meanwhile, demand for data security has continued to surge for a variety of converging reasons — whether it’s the risk of data exposure via GenAI tools, the growth of SaaS and cloud, or the rise in data theft and extortion attacks. “Data security is the future of cybersecurity,” said Mike Tornincasa, chief business officer at Rubrik, which has transitioned from its roots as a backup and recovery vendor into a major data security player, in an interview with CRN. In particular, data security posture management (DSPM) has emerged as a focal point. DSPM provides enhanced visibility into the locations and security of data stored in an organization’s cloud environments, offering a more-modern way to lock down the data in the cloud.

Likewise, the momentum around secure access service edge (SASE) and security service edge (SSE) continues to be vigorous, with secure access for hybrid and remote employees remaining a necessity for many organizations. As just one indicator, Gartner analysts recently forecast that 65 percent of purchases for SD-WAN will come through a single-vendor SASE offering by 2027, up from 20 percent as of this yea

As part of CRN’s Security 100 2025, we’ve assembled the following list by collecting many of the top vendors in the related — but not identical — segments of identity and access security, data security and SSE. In some cases, vendors on our list offer more than one of these technologies (or offer all three, as is the case with Microsoft).

What follows are the 20 identity, access and data security companies that made our Security 100 for 2025.

1Password

Jeff Shiner, David Faugno

Co-CEOs

Recent additions to 1Password’s Enterprise Password Manager have included administrator controls around employee use of the 1Password browser extension for accessing work-related vaults, as well as around automatic locking of the password manager.

Acronis

Ezequiel Steiner

CEO

With its Cyber Protect 16 launch, Acro­nis debuted updates including a simplified central dashboard as well as enhanced AI-powered capabilities for proac­tive securing of data and applications. Other key enhancements included the addition of one-click recovery capabilities for reducing dependence on IT support.

BeyondTrust

Janine Seebeck

CEO

Key prod­ucts from BeyondTrust include its Identity Security Insights offering, which provides visibility into an organization’s iden­tities across on-premises and cloud environments as well as identity systems and SaaS. The company also acquired Entitle to bring management of just-in-time access and identity governance.

BigID

Dimitri Sirota

Co-Founder, CEO

BigID’s recent addi­tions to its data security and privacy platform included the introduction of new privacy modules and data mapping tools. Key capabilities are central documentation and tracking of regulatory risks, privacy posture man­agement, and automatic and adaptive mapping of business-level data assets.

Cohesity

Sanjay Poonen

President, CEO

Cohesity announced the closing of its acquisition of Veritas’ enterprise data protection business, bol­stering its DataProtect platform with expanded workload support via the Veritas capabilities. Other major updates included introducing AI-powered improvements for its recovery assistant tool.

CyberArk

Matt Cohen

CEO

Key launches from Cyber­Ark included the addition of enhanced security insight, granu­lar access management policies and password-less authentication when sign­ing into endpoints. The company also debuted its suite of AI-powered iden­tity security capabilities, CyberArk CORA AI, and acquired machine identity specialist Venafi.

Cyera

Yotam Segev

Co-Founder, CEO

Cyera’s data secu­rity posture management offering spe­cializes in providing rapid visibility into an organiza­tion’s data and identity access through its agent­less approach. The startup recently expanded its portfolio with the acquisi­tion of Trail Security, which brings AI-powered capa­bilities for DLP onto the Cyera platform.

Dell Security

Michael Dell

Founder, Chairman, CEO

Dell Security, a unit of Dell Technolo­gies, debuted data protec­tion capabilities that cater to Microsoft customers, including the introduction of Dell Apex Protection Ser­vices for Microsoft Azure. It provides AI-enhanced protection for cloud data as well as cyber resiliency capabilities for remote, edge and on-premises environments.

Microsoft

Satya Nadella

Chairman, CEO

Microsoft updated its commercial identity sys­tem, Microsoft Entra ID, utilizing its Azure Managed Hardware Secu­rity Module service. The updates included genera­tion, storage and automatic rotation of access token signing keys using the service. Microsoft also extended standardized logging for security tokens to bolster threat detection.

Netskope

Sanjay Beri

Co-Founder, CEO

Building on its SASE platform, Netskope has expanded to offer a full, single-vendor SASE platform through the addition of SD-WAN capabilities. The vendor also launched a new ver­sion of its SASE platform that caters to the needs of midmarket customers with the debut of Netskope SASE for Midmarket.

Okta

Todd McKinnon

Co-Founder, CEO

Okta has expanded its Work­force Identity Cloud plat­form with the launch of a new tool, Identity Security Posture Management, aimed at proactive iden­tification of vulnerabilities and gaps in identity secu­rity. Meanwhile, it has added other new capabili­ties including protection for non-federated SaaS accounts.

Ping Identity

Andre Durand

Founder, CEO

Ping Identity debuted its AI-powered identity services tech­nology, Helix, which enables provisioning of AI agents with unique identities to help ensure all interactions are authenticated. Other updates included extended Google Chrome support and new integrations with Google Cloud and AWS focused on user authenti­cation and device trust.

RSA Security

Rohit Ghai

CEO

RSA Security expanded its identity secu­rity offerings with new phishing-resistant password-less authentication capabilities. They included the RSA Authenticator App 4.5 for iOS and Android, which leverages RSA’s ID Plus service to offer simplified provisioning of phishing-resistant MFA and the ability to replace passwords.

Rubrik

Bipul Sinha

Co-Founder, CEO

Rubrik has expanded from a backup and recovery company into a major data secu­rity player, including its entrance into the data security posture man­agement space. It has launched Rubrik DSPM for Microsoft 365 Copilot, which provides improved security around the usage of sensitive data in the Copilot GenAI assistant.

SailPoint

Mark McClain

Founder, CEO

Major expan­sion moves for SailPoint’s Identity Secu­rity Cloud platform have included the recent debut of SailPoint Machine Identity Secu­rity. The offering provides capabilities that can unify all identity security pro­cesses—including human and machine identities— enabling simplified identity management and security.

Saviynt

Sachin Nayyar

Founder, Chairman, CEO

Saviynt recently expanded its identity plat­form with the debut of its Intelligence Suite offering. It includes capabilities such as Intel­ligent Recommendations, which supports the imple­mentation of dynamic roles while also providing access recommendations, a multi­dimensional weighted trust scoring model and crucial insight.

Semperis

Mickey Bresman

Co-Founder, CEO

Semperis recently updated its Lightning platform with the introduction of its new security posture assess­ment tool, Lightning Intelligence. The offering provides tracking of secu­rity posture across Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID environments and then generates reports on the security trends that are observed.

Skyhigh Security

Vishal Rao

CEO

Skyhigh Security has enhanced its SSE plat­form with the introduction of features including ML auto clas­sification for automated detection and categoriza­tion of sensitive files and capabilities for detection of unsanctioned shadow AI usage. It also debuted its new AI-powered assistant focused on DLP.

Varonis

Yaki Faitelson

Co-Founder, Chairman, President, CEO

Varonis recently rolled out support for Microsoft 365 Copilot and new security posture reporting and capabilities for discovery and classification of data in IBM’s Db2 database engine. Meanwhile, the company debuted its new Managed Data Detection and Response service for improved threat detection and enhanced response.

Zscaler

Jay Chaudhry

Founder, CEO

Zscaler unveiled its Zero Trust SASE offer­ing with key additions including its first SD-WAN offering. The vendor's SD-WAN device stands out from other SD-WAN offerings by routing traffic from on-premises environments through Zscaler ’s Zero Trust Exchange platform to pro­vide secure connections to corporate apps and data.