Keeper gains top rankings in identity security reports

Keeper Security has received top-tier rankings from GigaOm and ISG after assessments in enterprise password management and identity and access management.

GigaOm placed Keeper as a Leader in the Enduring Innovators quadrant of its Enterprise Password Management Radar and named it the overall quadrant leader. ISG named the cyber security group an Exemplary Provider in its Buyers Guide for Identity and Access Management Platforms, placing it in a top tier alongside Microsoft, AWS and Google Cloud.

The dual recognition gives Keeper independent validation across two adjacent parts of the identity market. One report focused on password management for large organisations, while the other took a broader view of identity and access management platforms used to control access across users, systems and applications.

In GigaOm's assessment, Keeper said it had held a top position in the enterprise password management market for five consecutive years. The Enduring Innovators label is used for suppliers that, in GigaOm's view, have built their standing through the underlying design of their platforms.

According to Keeper's account of the findings, the analyst firm cited the breadth of its product with no obvious weak points. It also highlighted secrets management, an official Model Context Protocol server, and governance for agentic and non-human identities.

ISG's review used a scoring method designed to mirror an enterprise request-for-information process. Providers were measured on product capability, platform and customer experience in a field that included some of the largest established names in identity and access management.

Keeper said it received an overall performance score of 83%, or A-. Its highest mark was 85.4% in product capability, while a customer experience score of 82.7% supported its Exemplary Provider placement.

Market pressure

The rankings come as identity security becomes a more crowded and complex part of corporate cyber defence. Companies often deploy separate tools for password management, privileged access, secrets management and machine identities, creating a patchwork that can be difficult to oversee.

Keeper pointed to survey data suggesting many organisations still run multiple disconnected identity products. It cited Dark Reading research showing that 40% of organisations use four or more separate identity products or platforms, while its own research found that 96% of cyber security decision-makers believe disconnected tools create exploitable gaps.

That helps explain why analyst scrutiny of unified identity platforms is drawing more attention. Buyers under pressure to reduce complexity are increasingly weighing whether to keep specialist products in place or consolidate them under a single provider.

Platform focus

At the centre of GigaOm's review was Keeper Password Manager, which the company described as its credential vault for passwords, passkeys and secrets used by human and non-human users across an enterprise. Keeper has expanded beyond that core product into privileged access management and endpoint privilege management.

The company also outlined a broader identity security platform that it said spans workforce vaulting, secrets management and machine identity governance. It argues that this single architecture allows customers to govern different identity types from one place rather than through separate products.

Another part of the offering is KeeperAI, which the company said provides threat detection across privileged sessions. The emphasis on AI agents and non-human identities reflects a broader shift in security markets as businesses seek to manage not only employee access but also software agents, automated services and machine credentials.

That shift is changing the competitive frame for identity suppliers. Password managers were once judged mainly on secure storage and usability, but enterprise customers now ask how those tools fit into wider access control, governance and privileged session oversight.

Executive response

Darren Guccione commented on the analyst findings and the company's architecture choices.

"Building a platform that governs identity end to end, from the credential in the vault to the AI agent requesting access to infrastructure, was a deliberate architectural decision we made years ago when most of the market was still solving one problem at a time," said Darren Guccione, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Keeper Security.

He added that the two rankings supported that strategy.

"The fact that two independent firms evaluated our platform and both placed us at the top tells us that decision was right and that the market is catching up to where we knew it needed to go," Guccione said.

For Keeper, the significance of the reports lies not only in the rankings themselves but also in the breadth of what was assessed. One analyst firm examined a category in which the company is already established, while the other tested its position in the wider identity and access management market, where competitors include some of the biggest cloud and software groups in the industry.

ISG placed Keeper among the top tier of IAM providers globally alongside Microsoft, AWS and Google Cloud.