Imprivata Recognized for the First Time in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Privileged Access Management
Imprivata combines privileged, agentic AI, and third-party access management into a single comprehensive platform to help organizations reduce risk, meet regulatory compliance requirements, and improve operational efficiency.
Waltham, Mass. – October 26, 2026 – Imprivata, a leading provider of access management solutions for mission-critical industries, today announced that the company was recognized for the first time in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management. Imprivata continues to invest in and expand its Privileged Access Security platform to help organizations manage elevated access across complex, highly regulated environments.
The Magic Quadrant indicates that organizations face growing pressure to manage privileged access across internal users, third parties, hybrid infrastructure, and emerging types of identities. Imprivata Vendor Privileged Access Management (VPAM) is an industry-leading solution for security third-party access, to which the company has now incorporated privileged access management and agentic AI access security into a single, comprehensive platform. In support of this evolution, the Gartner evaluation highlights Imprivata’s market responsiveness, pricing, and product capabilities as core strengths of its privileged access security strategy.
“We are honored to be recognized for the first time in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management and believe it is an important milestone for Imprivata and reflects the progress we’ve made in helping organizations address privileged access across increasingly complex environments,” said Chip Hughes, chief product officer at Imprivata. “Our customers need strong controls to secure privileged access, but those controls also need to work in the context of real operational workflows. We’ve built our approach around that reality, with a focus on securing access for internal teams, third parties, and AI agents while reducing the operational burden on IT. As privileged identities, technologies, and threats evolve, Imprivata will continue to invest in the capabilities our customers need to keep pace.”
For organizations in healthcare and other mission-critical industries, privileged access is increasingly tied to broader operational and security priorities. Internal administrators, vendors, contractors, service providers, AI agents, and other human and non-human identities with elevated privileges need access to critical resources without creating unnecessary exposure or slowing essential work.
Imprivata addresses these requirements through an integrated privileged access security platform designed to help organizations control, monitor, and manage elevated access. The platform includes:
- Imprivata Privileged Access Management (PAM) for enterprise credential vaulting and privileged session management. Imprivata PAM leverages automated access controls to discover and lock down accounts with least privilege access, broker access and audit privileged sessions in real time, and ensure access is authorized and seamless with enforced MFA and a streamlined login experience.
- Imprivata Vendor Privileged Access Management (VPAM) for third-party remote access, enabling organizations to control and secure inbound third-party access to critical systems, infrastructure, and data. VPAM offers remote privileged access gateway brokers port-by-port TCP/UDP connections directly to target resources and supports third-party governance through capabilities such as delegated administration and domain-restricted self-registration.
- Imprivata Customer Privileged Access Management (CPAM) for remote support access that extend visibility and control to customers with access schedules and granular controls, direct credential injection to reduce risk of password sharing, and providing details session monitoring, recording, and auditing.
To learn more about the Imprivata Privileged Access Security platform, visit: https://www.imprivata.com/products/privileged-access-security.
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management, Paul Mezzera, Shubham Gera, Tarun Rohilla, Scott Brinker, 21 October 2026.
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About Imprivata
Imprivata delivers simple and secure access management solutions for healthcare and other mission-critical industries to ensure every second of crucial work is both frictionless and secure. Imprivata’s platform of innovative, interoperable access management and privileged access security solutions enable organizations to fully manage and secure all enterprise and third-party identities to facilitate seamless user access, protect against internal and external security threats, and reduce total cost of ownership. For more information, visit www.imprivata.com.
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