Digital transformation is thorough. It presses its sticky digital fingers into every system and sector, bringing change that disrupts and redefines how things are done, who does them and why. Identity management is no exception to this digital rule. Identity management systems are under pressure to be agile enough to pivot with the business while ensuring that the security threat is held at bay. The technology that enables it is changing as swiftly as the environments it supports, and it is seeing some of the big movers shaking up the industry.

SAP purchased Gigya. Google acquired Bitium and SecureAuth, and Core Security announced a merger. Hot on the heels of all the merging and acquiring are the statistics released by Stratistics MRC that point to the global identity and access management market reaching $2 087 billion by 2022 at a CAGR growth of 14.8%.