Blame PAM
Recognized in the Gartner magic quadrant as a visionary, this competitor received a high score in privileged session management for UNIX/Linex but also reported the lowest revenue growth for 2025.
Who is One Identity?
This personas top priority is Control and the ability to prove 100% adherence.
Internal Auditor
Number one problem AIS solves for?
What are fragmented tools?
This persona cares about reducing financial risk and control exposure.
Who is the CFO?
This approach to AIS is built into core ERP platforms and optimized for finance and operations.
What is ERP Native Governance?
To gain visibility into all identities–human and non-human and the privileged access they hold.
What is Posture Management?
Unmanaged service accounts, bots, keys and secrets in a multi cloud environment are top preiorities for this persona.
Cloud Security Lead
This approach to AIS is designed for specific apps or audits.
What are Point/App Specific Tools?
This persona feels the pain when access issues recur year after year, when evidence is incomplete and inconsistent and controls depend on manual validation.
Who is the Head of Internal Audit/Compliance?
Enable ephemeral task-based access for all identities–removing standing privileges.
What is Just In Time Access (JIT)
What are the biggest strengths that Saviynt has over competitors in the PAM space?
What is a full platform?
Integration, life cycle and operation management of an identity solution are top priorities for this persona.
Who is the IAM Manager?
This accumulates when people change roles or move between projects
What is Excess Access?
This person owns the controls and SoD enforcement, audit readiness and evidence quality and remediation efforts across ERP and financial apps.
Who is the VP Finance/Controller?
Duplicate and orphaned accounts widen the attack surface and lead to this issue
What is Identity Sprawl?
NextGen terminology to the concept that nobody should have any privileges by default.
What are ZSP, Zero Standing Privileges
Efficacy, coverage and incident reponse are their top priority
Who is the Director of IT Security?
The ICP for AIS should have roughly this number of business critical applications.
What are 50-300+?
This individual is measured on reducing identity-based incidents, improving visibility into risky access and implementing controls that adapt as environments change.
Who is the CISO?
The ultimate goal on the PAM maturity journey where privileges access is automated though intelligent, invisible agents, ensuring security at scale without manual effort.
Automated Orchestration
A set of tools that manage and secure elevated access used to administer systems and applications.
What is PAM
Risk, compliance and business enablement are this personas top priorities.
Who is the CISO?
The four common appraches to AIS
What are ERP Native Governance, IGA First Extensions, Point/App specific Solutions, Manual Spreadsheet Governance?
This persona is responsible for governing access at scale without complexity.
Who is the CIO/IT Leadership?
This AIS approach provides broad visibility across identities and apps but provides limited depth into app-specific permissions.
What are IGA-First Extensions?