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BalkanID Recognized as a Representative Vendor in the 2026 Gartner® Market Guide for Identity Governance and Administration

BalkanID is listed among full-suite IGA vendors in the Market Guide. Separately, Gartner Innovation Insight research continues to name BalkanID an IGA augmentation vendor for the second year in a row.

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BalkanID Recognized as a Representative Vendor in the 2026 Gartner® Market Guide for Identity Governance and Administration

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

BalkanID is listed among full-suite IGA vendors in the Market Guide. Separately, Gartner Innovation Insight research continues to name BalkanID an IGA augmentation vendor for the second year in a row.

AUSTIN, Texas, September, 2026 - BalkanID, the AI-powered identity security and governance platform for humans, non-humans, AI agents across connected as well as disconnected applications in the enterprise, announced today that it has been named a Representative Vendor in the full-suite IGA category of the 2026 Gartner Market Guide for Identity Governance and Administration. BalkanID has also been named an IGA augmentation vendor for the second consecutive year in Gartner Innovation Insight research, most recently in "Innovation Insight: IVIP and IAM Augmentation Vendors Are Disrupting Light IGA."

The 2026 Market Guide describes how the scale and complexity of AI are pushing security leaders to rethink identity governance. Organizations must now govern humans, workloads and AI agents together, with continuous visibility and automation in place of periodic manual reviews. BalkanID was built for this shift. The platform brings together identity data from HR systems, identity providers, SaaS, cloud and legacy applications. It then applies AI to find access risk, prioritize it and fix it, in place of the manual, spreadsheet-driven review cycles that slow down security and audit teams.

"We are proud to be recognized as a Representative Vendor in the 2026 Gartner Market Guide for Identity Governance and Administration," said Subbu Rama, Co-Founder and CEO of BalkanID. "In our view, being listed among full-suite IGA vendors, while also being recognized as an IGA augmentation vendor for the second year in a row, reflects what makes BalkanID different. Enterprises can adopt us as a complete IGA platform, or use us to extend and modernize the IGA investments they already have. As AI agents join the workforce, organizations need one system of record for who and what has access, why they have it and whether they should keep it. That is what we are building at BalkanID."

A track record of analyst recognition

This is the latest in a series of analyst recognitions for BalkanID:

  • Gartner has named BalkanID an IGA augmentation vendor in its Innovation Insight research for two consecutive years, in 2025 and again in the September 2026 report, "Innovation Insight: IVIP and IAM Augmentation Vendors Are Disrupting Light IGA."
  • In 2025, KuppingerCole Analysts named BalkanID a Rising Star in identity governance. The report pointed to the company's strong product-market alignment, intelligent automation, and end-to-end identity governance and lifecycle coverage.

Together, these recognitions reflect BalkanID's range. It works as a full-suite IGA platform and as an augmentation layer that closes visibility and governance gaps in existing IAM programs.

How BalkanID helps enterprises govern identity

  • Access reviews: continuous, risk-prioritized user access reviews that cut reviewer fatigue and speed up audit readiness.
  • Lifecycle automation: joiner, mover and leaver workflows driven by HR and directory data, including just-in-time and purpose-based access.
  • IAM Risk Analyzer: AI-driven discovery of orphaned, dormant, overprivileged and toxic-combination access, with recommended fixes.
  • BalkanID Copilot: natural-language identity governance for discovery, analysis and remediation.
  • Agent governance: visibility into and control over the authority granted to AI agents and non-human identities, alongside human users.

Gartner subscribers can access the full report here.

About BalkanID

BalkanID is an AI-powered identity governance and administration platform that helps enterprises see, understand and control access across their entire identity landscape, including employees, contractors, service accounts and AI agents. Headquartered in Texas, BalkanID offers access reviews, lifecycle management, risk analytics and agent governance on a modular, API-first platform that can be deployed on its own or alongside existing IGA investments. Learn more at www.balkan.id.

Source: Gartner, "Market Guide for Identity Governance and Administration" by Rebecca Archambault, Brian Guthrie, Paul Mezzera, Steve Wessels, 28 August 2026.

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