Recognized in identity management and privileged access management markets
When enterprise buyers research identity and security solutions, they don't rely on marketing copy. They rely on each other. That's what makes the PeerSpot Customer Choice Awards worth paying attention to: PeerSpot builds these rankings entirely from verified user reviews and real buyer research behavior, never from vendor submissions.
For Q1 2026, One Identity earned Tech Leader Award recognition in two categories at once, a signal that our approach to identity security holds up, whether you're managing who has access or controlling what privileged users can do with it.
This recognition is a direct reflection of two things we invest in every day: continuous innovation and a relentless focus on customer excellence. We don't build features for the sake of a roadmap slide; we build them because the identity landscape is changing fast. With AI agents and machine identities now outnumbering the humans they support, our customers need solutions that can keep pace. At the same time, direct feedback from the security and IT teams who run these products in production every day shapes every enhancement we make. A Tech Leader Award built on a rolling 12-month average of verified reviews doesn't reward one good quarter. Rather, it rewards sustained trust, and that's exactly what continuous innovation paired with genuine customer focus is meant to earn.
Two awards, one connected platform
PeerSpot's Tech Leader Award recognizes the top three products in each category, calculated from the average of the last 12 monthly rankings drawn from verified user reviews.
Identity Manager by One Identity earned recognition for consistent buyer engagement across the Identity Management (IM) category over the trailing 12-month review period. The category considers systems that govern user identities, accounts and access rights across enterprise applications. And for the Privileged Access Management (PAM) category — looking at solutions that secure, control and monitor access for privileged accounts and administrative sessions — Safeguard by One Identity rose to the top of product comparisons and made frequent appearances in active buyer evaluations of PAM security solutions.
Why this double win matters
Vendors usually sell IM and PAM as two separate purchases and believe buyers evaluate them that way. PeerSpot's data tells a different story: Buyers frequently research One Identity alongside other leading solutions in both categories at once, with repeat visits to both product pages during the same evaluation cycle.
That overlap matches what we hear from customers directly. Governing identities and securing privileged access are two halves of the same problem. An identity program that stops short of privileged session control leaves a gap wide enough to walk through, and a PAM tool that isn't grounded in accurate identity governance ends up managing risk it can never fully see. Winning recognition in both categories, in the same review cycle, reflects that connected approach. It also explains a trend we see more often now: customers adopting both Identity Manager and Safeguard by One Identity together because identity governance and administration (IGA) and PAM under one vendor delivers unified security governance and a 360-degree view of identity that neither product reaches on its own.
Rated 5 stars by the people who use it every day
Awards are a helpful signal, but the reviews behind them are where the real evidence lives. Here's what verified, 5-star PeerSpot reviewers had to say about Identity Manager and Safeguard in their own words:
Identity Manager by One Identity
★★★★★ “One Identity Manager performs well as a single platform for enterprise-level administration and governance for all types of accounts, including non-human identities, ensuring that responsible individuals can manage system access and authorizations efficiently. Business roles greatly improve our business functionality by automating processes… This automation saves time and enhances efficiency.”
— Project Manager, B. Braun Group
★★★★★ “What stands out most about One Identity Manager is its strong balance between automation, governance, and deep enterprise integration… Some additional features that stand out are role-based access, self-service access requests, privileged access governance, workflow customization, historical identity tracking, and AI-assisted reporting in newer versions.”
— Sr. Technical Engineer, Retail Sector
Safeguard by One Identity
★★★★★ “The session recording and search features are straightforward to use. Every privileged session is automatically recorded… When investigating an incident or reviewing administrative actions, I can search sessions using filters such as user, target, system, date, or time range… This has been very helpful for troubleshooting, internal audits, and compliance reviews.”
— Cyber Security Analyst, Essen Vision Software (Overall rating: 10/10)
★★★★★ “One Identity Safeguard is powerful because it provides beneficial features that support clean integration with different tools, significantly improving security and automation processes… [It] easily integrates with the existing platform.”
— Head of External Relations, Lilo.org (Overall rating: 10/10)
Built for the way identity security works now
The identity landscape has changed: Non-human identities (NHIs) and AI agents now outnumber human accounts inside most enterprises, and governance models built only for people can't keep up. Both One Identity products have been built to specifically close that gap.
Identity Manager by One Identity brings identity governance, access certification and provisioning together into a single platform, built for the complexity of real enterprise environments, not the simplified version in a demo. The newest capabilities push the platform well beyond human identities alone:
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Governance for every identity type: a single platform for administering and governing all identities — human, non-human and AI agents — so nothing manages access outside the view of IT and security.
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AI-assisted reporting and analytics: AI-assisted insights inside compliance reporting and access reviews, helping teams spot risk faster instead of combing through raw logs.
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Business-role automation: dynamic, role-based provisioning that automatically extends access, attestations and policy enforcement as the organization and the identities within it keep growing.
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Identity threat detection and response (ITDR): ITDR playbooks ingest risk scores from third-party user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) and analytics tools, then automatically disable accounts, flag incidents and launch targeted attestations, shortening the gap between detecting an identity threat and containing it.
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A modernized, browser-based experience: a redesigned web interface delivers full administrative functionality without a desktop client, so admins get the same depth of control with a lighter footprint to install and maintain.
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Behavior-driven governance: attestation campaigns and access reviews adjust based on ingested behavioral risk signals rather than running on a fixed calendar, regardless of what's actually changed.
Safeguard by One Identity secures, monitors and controls privileged sessions in real time. Security teams see privileged activity as it happens without slowing down the admins who need access to do their jobs. Safeguard also ranks among the leading solutions in PeerSpot's Non-Human Identity Management category, which reflects where PAM is heading:
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Governance across human, non-human and AI agent identities: credential vaulting, automated rotation and access approval workflows apply the same rigor to service accounts and autonomous AI agents that they do to human administrators, closing the gap where standing, unmonitored machine access typically hides.
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AI-driven session and behavior analytics: real-time monitoring that can flag anomalous privileged activity and terminate risky sessions as they happen, not after the fact.
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Full session recording and searchable audit trails: Safeguard records and indexes every privileged action, human or machine, turning audit prep from a multi-day effort into a same-day one.
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Privileged behavior profiling: Safeguard for Privileged Analytics builds a behavioral baseline for each privileged user — keystrokes, mouse movement, command patterns — and flags deviations in real time, so unusual activity gets caught even when the credentials being used look completely valid.
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A modernized session search experience: a redesigned search interface replaces the older classic view, making it faster to locate and review a specific privileged session during an active investigation.
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Threat containment on par with ITDR: when behavioral analytics flags a session as high-risk, Safeguard can act immediately, terminating it or requiring step-up approval, closing the same detect-to-response gap ITDR tools target on the identity governance side.
Two Tech Leader Awards for two top-rated identity and access management (IAM) products with one connected approach to identity security by One Identity. Built for humans, NHIs and the AI agents joining the workforce alongside them.
