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Identity & Access Management

IAM market exceeds $50B. Gartner: 90%+ of MFA via FIDO by 2027. Passwordless becoming enterprise baseline.

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Growth Overview

15.1%

CAGR

+15.1%

YoY Growth

+55%

Search Growth

$77.9B

by 2034

12-Month Trend

Growth Rate

0%25%50%

Market Size Projection

$50B

Current (2025)

$77.9B

by 2034

Overview

Platforms for authentication, authorization, and identity governance. The IAM market exceeded $50B in 2026, with the cloud IAM segment growing at 22.7% CAGR. Gartner projects 90%+ of MFA transactions will use FIDO Authentication by 2027. Passwordless authentication is becoming the enterprise baseline for workforce access in 2026, with passkey adoption tripling in banking. Identity is the 2026 battleground as AI erases traditional trust signals. "Agent Identity" emerged as a critical sub-category for authenticating AI agents.

What's Driving This Growth?

▸Passkey adoption 3x in banking (12.4% of digital banking, up from 4.2% in March 2025)
▸Zero-trust architecture requiring identity verification at every layer
▸"Agent Identity" for AI agent authentication emerging as critical new IAM sub-category
▸48% of top 100 websites now offer passkeys; 87% of businesses deploying passkeys

Market Signals

✓Palo Alto Networks closed its CyberArk acquisition on Feb 11, 2026 at ~$21.1B in final consideration, signaling machine identity and agentic AI security are no longer niche
✓Okta announced intent to acquire Axiom Security and Barracuda acquired Evo Security (Jul 2026) as identity consolidation accelerates; Oasis Security raised $120M for NHI lifecycle management
✓CrowdStrike acquired SGNL for $740M (Jan 2026) for continuous identity authorization across human, NHI, and AI identities in AWS IAM, Okta, and cloud/SaaS