Astrix Featured in Gartner’s 2025 Hype Cycle for Digital Identity
We’re proud to share that Astrix Security has been recognized by Gartner in its newly released Hype Cycle for Digital Identity, 2025, under the Workload Identity Management category.
This marks the sixth mention of Astrix in a Gartner report since January 2025 — a clear signal that machine identity security is no longer a niche concern, but a growing and urgent enterprise priority. In May, Gartner published its first-ever Leaders’ Guide to Modern Machine IAM, where Astrix was named among the leading vendors defining this critical space.
Figure 1: Hype Cycle for Digital Identity, 2025 – Source: Gartner
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What Is the Hype Cycle?
Gartner’s Hype Cycle is a visual framework mapping the maturity and adoption of emerging technologies. It helps security and IT leaders identify which innovations are ready for investment and which are still maturing. The cycle progresses through five phases:
- Innovation Trigger
- Peak of Inflated Expectations
- Trough of Disillusionment
- Slope of Enlightenment
- Plateau of Productivity
This framework helps organizations prioritize resources, time investments, and vendors based on where technologies sit along the curve.
Spotlight on Workload Identity Management
As organizations scale cloud infrastructure, adopt SaaS, integrate automation, and deploy agentic AI, they encounter an explosion of machine identities: API keys, service accounts, OAuth apps, embedded secrets, webhooks, and autonomous AI agents. Traditional IAM tools lack the visibility and governance needed to manage these identities effectively.
Astrix delivers a platform built specifically for modern machine IAM, enabling organizations to manage the full lifecycle of non-human identities (NHIs) — including AI agents — across hybrid environments. This growing category is essential for:
- Enforcing least privilege and secure provisioning.
- Eliminating credential sprawl and orphaned access.
- Supporting Zero Trust and DevSecOps initiatives at scale.
How Astrix Addresses NHI & AI-Agent Challenges
Visibility & Governance
Astrix provides automated, continuous discovery of all Agentic and non-human identities — including AI Agents, API keys, OAuth apps, service accounts, embedded secrets — across SaaS, cloud, and on-prem environments. This live inventory eliminates blind spots, maps ownership, and reveals hidden threats like unauthorized third-party integrations and orphaned credentials. With deep context and risk scoring, Astrix empowers teams to prioritize remediation based on breach likelihood and over-privilege analysis.
Lifecycle Management
Manage AI agents and NHIs from provisioning to decommissioning through automated ownership, policy enforcement, and streamlined remediation processes, without the manual overhead.
Threat Detection & Response
Astrix detects suspicious activity in real-time — including credential compromise, out-of-scope agent behavior, or misused secrets — using behavioral analytics tuned for machine identities. Security teams can respond swiftly through guided remediation workflows, safe rotation procedures, and automated fixes, reducing time-to-resolution without breaking functionality.
Compliance & Productivity
By replacing manual tracking with automated visibility and reporting, Astrix simplifies audit readiness. Detailed usage context, real-time audit logs, and centralized control help meet compliance requirements efficiently.
Unified Control & Integration
Astrix integrates with ITSM, SIEM, and SOAR tools, enabling centralized visibility and response across all machine identity types.
With these capabilities, Astrix empowers organizations to secure both autonomous AI agents and traditional non-human identities across their environments. As enterprises embrace automation and AI to accelerate workflows, Astrix ensures that every identity — whether long-lived or ephemeral, human-issued or AI-generated — is properly discovered, governed, and secured by design. See Astrix in action or request a live demo to learn how we help secure the next generation of non-human access.
