Nexis Included in the New KuppingerCole Analysts Leadership Compass for Identity and Access Governance 2026
18 Aug 2026
We are pleased to share that Nexis has been included in the KuppingerCole Analysts 2026 Leadership Compass for Identity and Access Governance.
Being part of this market conversation matters to us. Identity and Access Governance has evolved from a periodic, certification-centered task toward a continuous and intelligence-driven discipline. That shift reflects exactly the area Nexis has been focusing on for years.
Why This Topic Is Becoming More Important Right Now
Identity and Access Governance sits at the center of modern identity security. It addresses a question that many organizations still struggle to answer clearly: who has access to what, why that access exists, who approved it, and whether it remains appropriate over time.
At the same time, getting this right has become more complex. Hybrid IT, rapid SaaS adoption, expanding application portfolios, and increasing regulatory requirements under frameworks such as DORA and NIS2 all add pressure at once. Governance needs to keep pace without slowing the business down.
What Is Changing in Identity and Access Governance
Several developments are shaping the current market, and each reflects challenges Nexis set out to address.
Governance now has to cover far more than employees. Contractors, partners, privileged administrators, service accounts, APIs, workloads, bots, and AI agents all hold entitlements that need oversight. In many enterprises, non-human identities already outnumber human users by a factor of 25 to 50, and that gap continuous to grow.
Analytics and automation have become key differentiators. Role mining, anomaly detection, contextual risk scoring, and AI-assisted recommendations reduce manual effort and improve decision quality. Access reviews remain one of the most resource-intensive governance tasks, so improvements in speed and accuracy create immediate operational value.
Governance also connects to the wider security ecosystem. When governance decisions incorporate live signals from privileged access, SIEM, and threat detection tools, they reflect real risk rather than static data. This supports Zero Trust and least-privilege approaches, where governance works as a foundational control layer.
Identity Visibility and Intelligence Platforms (IVIP) have emerged as a closely related development. IVIP consolidates identity, account, entitlement, and relationship data from across the stack. It surfaces identity sprawl, toxic access combinations, orphaned accounts, and privilege accumulation. Rather than replacing core governance, it strengthens governance with sharper visibility and analytics.
Where Nexis Fits
This is the space the NEXIS Platform was designed for. NEXIS brings identity analytics, role mining, and authorization modeling together on a shared identity access graph. The graph maps identities, roles, entitlements, and policies as connected relationships, so teams can run impact analysis, simulate governance changes, and validate authorization concepts before anything reaches production.
AI is embedded directly into these workflows. NICO, the NEXIS Intelligent Co-Pilot, guides approvers, reviewers, and business users, and explains the reasoning behind each recommendation. Segregation of Duties checks operate across systems and are integrated in access requests, role creation, and certification campaigns. ISPM (Identity Security Posture Management) adds continuous detection and remediation of identity risk.
Just as important, NEXIS keeps governance accessible for the business. Zero-code workflow configuration, stakeholder-specific interfaces, and clear visualizations ensure that responsibility stays with the people who own them, without routing everything through IT.
Why This Matters in Practice
As access risk spreads across more identities and more applications, the ability to govern it with visibility, intelligence, and control turns from a nice-to-have into a core requirement. Organizations need governance that increases transparency, strengthens review and control processes, and lowers access risk across connected systems, while staying audit-ready throughout.
Our inclusion in this Leadership Compass reflects this direction, and it reinforces why we continue to focus on visibility and intelligence for the business.
Learn More
Learn more about the report on KuppingerCole Analysts research site:
Leadership Compass: Identity and Access Governance (KuppingerCole account required)
For a closer look at how Nexis approaches identity visibility and intelligence:
Executive View 2026: The IVIP Capabilities of the NEXIS Platform
Executive View 2025: Identity Visibility & Intelligence with Nexis
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