Veza has been recognized as a notable vendor in Forrester’s latest report, The Workforce Identity Security Platforms Landscape, Q4 2025. For organizations, managing identities is no longer an administrative task; it has become a battlefield. This report highlights how vendors are addressing organizations’ challenges in securing workforce identities in an era defined by cloud velocity, AI-driven automation, and escalating identity-based threats.
What defines a Workforce Identity Security Platform?
With enterprise environments becoming more complex, identity security has emerged as the #1 enterprise risk, underscored by Veza’s 2026 State of Identity & Access report. Forrester defines a workforce identity security platform as a solution that provides a unified approach to governing, administering, and enforcing identity security controls across workforce users, protecting corporate assets, business systems, networks, applications, systems, and data.
Importantly, “workforce” no longer refers only to employees. These platforms are designed to manage:
- Human identities, such as employees, contractors, & partners
- Non-human identities, including applications, service accounts, & machines
- AI agents
Rather than managing identities in silos, organizations must strategize to gain unified visibility and control over their entire workforce identity landscape. A workforce identity security platform brings together core IAM capabilities (for example: identity data sources, single sign-on (SSO), multifactor authentication (MFA), access management, and identity governance) while layering in advanced analytics and AI-driven intelligence. Modern organizations have deployed hundreds of applications and tools to improve business productivity. To eliminate blind spots and enable defense-in-depth, workforce identity security platforms must integrate effectively with the numerous applications and tools used in the enterprise.
Why does this matter to Organizations?
As organizations rapidly adopt cloud and SaaS applications, integrate with third-party suppliers, and accelerate agentic AI initiatives, the number of identities and the complexity of their access have exploded. As a result, Identity has become the primary attack surface. A unified workforce identity security platform is the way forward to stop identity threats and protect the bottom line.
Unified visibility is critical to protecting the identity perimeter: As traditional network boundaries dissolve, identity has become the new perimeter in the modern enterprise that adversaries prefer to exploit. A unified workforce identity security platform shifts the play from merely authentication-focused (who’s this identity?) to a proactive, authorization-focused approach (what the identity can actually do?). According to Veza’s 2026 State of Identity and Access report, a mere 0.01% of non-human identities control 80% of cloud resources, while the average worker holds 96,000 entitlements. Unified visibility across the entire workforce identity ecosystem, spanning human, non-human, and AI agent identities, is critical for organizations to eliminate blind spots, control permission sprawl, and reduce identity debt, thereby averting costly breaches.
Automation transforms compliance and audit-readiness: Auditors and cyber insurance underwriters require organizations to demonstrate effective controls to provide evidence of a robust identity security strategy. Driven by continuous automation, a unified workforce identity security platform replaces manual spreadsheets and siloed reports with deep, data-driven evidence of the organization’s identity security posture. It empowers organizations to answer the toughest questions on dormant accounts, toxic combinations, privilege creep, separation of duties, third-party/contractor access to applications, and many more, with irrefutable data. This enables organizations to turn audit and compliance exercises from a panicked quarterly/annual scramble into a continuous data-driven state of readiness, eventually protecting the organization from regulatory fines and higher insurance premiums.
Reduced friction translates to enhanced workforce productivity: With the average worker holding thousands of entitlements, manual provisioning is not just slow, but also a productivity nightmare. A unified workforce identity security platform eliminates identity debt by orchestrating onboarding, access requests and reviews at scale, ensuring that employees and contractors get the right access, based on the principle of least privileges, without slowing down business productivity. Instead of burdening the organization’s help desk with tickets, the unified platform enables self-service, without compromising security. Further, integrations with the organization’s existing IT service management (ITSM) solutions enable unified workflows to grant/revoke access at speed, eliminating manual, error-prone processes.
When deployed effectively, workforce identity security platforms, like Veza, can detect and stop identity-based attacks, support continuous compliance with audit-readiness, and improve workforce productivity by ensuring right access, adhering to the principle of least privilege.
What Forrester’s Report Means to the Enterprise
The workforce identity security market is broad and rapidly evolving. Vendors differ widely in terms of scale, technical focus, geographic reach, and the identity problems they solve best. For security leaders, choosing the right platform can be challenging.
Forrester’s Workforce Identity Security Platforms Landscape provides valuable guidance by:
- Clarifying what capabilities enterprises should expect from a modern platform
- Highlighting how vendors differentiate across use cases such as governance, posture management, and non-human/AI identity security
- Helping organizations identify solutions that align with their size, maturity, and strategic priorities
Security and identity leaders should use this report to understand better the value these platforms deliver and to evaluate potential partners with confidence.
Veza Stands Out for IGA, ISPM, and NHI Security
Forrester recognized Veza as a notable vendor in several key categories, including Identity Governance, Identity Security and Posture Management (ISPM), and Machine and AI Identity Management. This recognition underscores Veza’s momentum in these categories, following a record year of growth in 2025, where Veza:
- Launched innovative new products such as NHI Security, AI Agent Security, and Access AuthZ
- Was named Leader in the 2025 GigaOm Report for Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM)
- Was recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Frost Radar for Non-Human Identity Security
- Was included in over 10 analyst publications covering next-generation identity security, runtime authorization, and access authorization
Together, these milestones reflect Veza’s commitment to helping enterprises secure the full spectrum of identities with unified visibility and achieve least privilege at scale. Read the full report. Learn more about Veza’s Governance, ISPM and NHI / AI Agent Security capabilities.
