Independent analyst reports play a key role in validating technology decisions. Nexis is regularly featured in evaluations by leading research firms such as Gartner and KuppingerCole. Explore how our solutions are positioned across key identity governance, access management, and compliance categories – and gain insights into the trends shaping the future of IAM.
Summary: Application governance (and administration) (AGA), is a specialized - yet rising - domain within Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) focused on managing the full lifecycle of access, permissions, and compliance for applications. These apps are typically those involving high-risk factors like privileged access, non-human identities, or shadow IT.
NEXIS is highlighted as a solution for "Enterprise Authorization Governance".
Summary: Organizations are developing zero-trust strategies with a need to evaluate and deploy zero-trust technologies. Ongoing advancements in technology continue to accelerate zero-trust adoption. This Hype Cycle provides cybersecurity leaders with a framework to prioritize technology innovations that are most effective in advancing an organization’s zero-trust security posture.
NEXIS is mentioned in the innovation area AI for Access Administration.
Summary: Digital identities are the cornerstone of cybersecurity, empowering secure access, threat detection, compliance and digital transformation. Cybersecurity leaders should leverage this research to drive innovation and enable secure, agile digital business.
NEXIS is mentioned in the two innovation areas AI for Access Administration as well as Identity Visibility and Intelligence Platforms.
Summary: Identity architects must use a hierarchical taxonomy based on the characteristics of user constituencies. This approach repaints the big picture of IAM, defines IAM domains, helps scope the IAM program, identifies blind spots, helps in tooling strategies and sets the right expectations for IAM.
NEXIS is mentioned in the category Identity Visibility and Intelligence Platforms.
Summary: Most organizations struggle with the availability and quality of identity and access data, directly impacting IAM effectiveness. Cybersecurity leaders responsible for IAM should implement four important data management practices to address data issues and improve IAM capabilities.
Nexis is mentioned as a representative vendor for IAM.
Summary: Light IGA offers basic features and quick deployment, but may lack advanced governance and integration capabilities. This research helps security and risk management leaders weigh the benefits and limitations of light IGA solutions against their business requirements.
NEXIS is listed as a specialized IGA add-on. According to Gartner types of IGA add-ons include, “Data visibility/visualization for modeling complex identity, account, role, group and entitlement relationships that can uncover blind spots and enable IAM data cleanup for better hygiene.”
Summary: Visibility gaps created by disconnected tools and isolated silos expose organizations to an unmonitored IAM attack surface. IAM leaders can strengthen security across centralized and decentralized environments using visibility, observability, and remediation to reduce the identity attack surface, improving their overall security posture.
Summary: Many role/access modeling implementations are overly complex and slower to adapt to organizational changes. Identity architects should use AI and machine learning based IGA tools to automate role discovery, optimize role models, and remediate overentitlement.
Nexis is listed as a vendor with IGA Modeling Capabilities.
Summary: Technical debt weakens the agility of an IAM team and the effectiveness of organizational security controls. Security and risk management technical professionals must tackle siloed tools, legacy integrations, incomplete discovery, poor IAM hygiene and difficult onboarding processes to resolve it.
Nexis is mentioned as a vendor to “discover roles, groups and policies to model access paths”
Summary: This Executive View from KuppingerCole Analysts delivers an expert evaluation of the NEXIS platform, focusing on its Identity Visibility and Intelligence (IVIP) capabilities. It highlights how organizations can overcome fragmented IAM environments by consolidating identity data to achieve full observability. The Executive View also covers AI-driven features such as authorization modeling and Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM), and assesses Nexis' strengths in interoperability, compliance alignment, and its international market outlook.
NEXIS is positioned as a governance-centric platform with strong IVIP capabilities.
Summary: This report provides an overview of the Identity and Access Governance market and a compass to help you find a solution that best meets your needs. It examines solutions that provide an integrated set of access governance capabilities for on-premises and SaaS systems. The report provides an assessment of the capabilities of these solutions to meet the needs of all organizations to monitor, assess, and manage access-related risks such as over-entitlements and SoD (Segregation of Duties) conflicts.
Kuppinger Cole mentiones Nexis as Innovation Leader and emphasizes strengths in the areas of role mining and identity & access analytics.
NEXIS 4 allows us to model business roles for our core application systems in an easy and business-understandable way. At the same time it provides all the functionality for efficient role maintenance and helps us to ensure a high role quality. With its simple recertification engine, we can keep our business roles and entitlements up to date with minimal administrative efforts (e.g. in case of employee mover events).
NEXIS 4 is the perfect solution for visualizing the entitlements from our several hundreds of applications and generating suitable business roles for our organization. Using the intuitive built-in visualization and filtering technologies it becomes easy to discuss the roles with our business experts and then export them to our IAM-solution.

NEXIS is data cleansing made easy. In a well-structured and transparent way, NEXIS automatically detected accounts with outdated or disproportionate access rights. After their removal you will be in a position to identify roles and automate the management of access rights. It has made a substantial impact on the system security.

With NEXIS 4 we have achieved the significant breakthrough in Identity Governance & Administration. NEXIS 4 allows for simple role modeling and role management, even within complex use cases. In combination with the fully configurable automated processes for role management and clearance, we have a profound tool set at our fingertips.
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