Okta named Leader in Gartner’s Access Management Magic Quadrant for ninth straight year

Okta has strengthened its position as one of the world’s top identity security companies after being recognised as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Access Management—the ninth consecutive year it has secured the top spot. The research evaluates authentication, authorization, single sign-on and adaptive access tools used by modern and legacy applications, and this year assessed 13 global vendors across 15 criteria.

Gartner placed Okta in the Leaders Quadrant for both its ability to execute and the completeness of its vision, underscoring the company’s continued dominance in identity and access management (IAM). Earlier in the year, Okta was also named a Customers’ Choice in Gartner Peer Insights’ Voice of the Customer: Access Management report for the sixth year running, reflecting consistently strong feedback from enterprise users.

Eric Kelleher, Okta’s President & COO, said the repeated recognition validates the company’s efforts to deliver a unified “identity security fabric” that can secure all types of identities—including the rapidly growing number of AI agents being deployed in enterprises. “These nine years of recognition by Gartner clearly validate Okta’s excellence… and this is even more important today as companies look to deploy and manage AI agents securely,” he said.

The company attributes its leadership to a cloud-native portfolio, strong product execution and a global partner ecosystem that helps customers onboard identity services at scale. Okta’s strength has long been its neutrality and ability to integrate seamlessly across diverse tech stacks, from on-premise systems to SaaS and cloud environments.

At its recent Oktane conference, Okta announced new Auth0 Platform capabilities aimed at helping developers build secure, standards-based AI agents that can plug directly into the Okta platform for full identity lifecycle management. The company also pushed for greater adoption of open identity standards such as Cross App Access (XAA) and the Interoperability Profile for Secure Identity in the Enterprise (IPSIE), positioning itself as a key player in shaping how AI ecosystems should authenticate and authorise both humans and machine agents.

With identity security becoming more complex in the era of non-human and agentic identities, Okta’s renewed leadership position signals continued momentum for the company as enterprises rethink IAM in an increasingly AI-driven world.