Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems are the central nervous system of every modern organization — controlling who can access what, where, and when. From workforce login flows and MFA to application provisioning and policy enforcement, IAM is everywhere. But here’s the catch: most organizations treat IAM as if it’s immune to failure. They rely on redundancy from their identity provider but fail to ask a crucial question:
What happens when your IAM configuration itself is misconfigured, deleted, or corrupted?
The answer is downtime, disruption, and potential compliance violations. And that’s why Gartner's recognition of IAM Backup as a high-benefit, emerging technology matters.
IAM: The New Downtime Risk
According to the 2025 Gartner Hype Cycle, IAM Backup is still emerging — adopted by less than 5% of the target audience — but it offers a high business benefit.
That’s because IAM outages now cause real, measurable damage to operations, revenue, and even trust. With identity at the heart of Zero Trust, SSO, MFA, and every layer of access control, any disruption to your IAM layer quickly becomes a business continuity problem.
Unfortunately, native tools from IAM providers like Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, or even AD were never designed with backup and recovery in mind.
They lack:
Granular point-in-time recovery
Automated rollback of roles, policies, and group membership
Immutable backups to defend against ransomware
Visibility into configuration drift or malicious changes
Acsense’s Inclusion in the Hype Cycle
We’re proud to be recognized by Gartner as a Sample Vendor in this new category.
It reflects our mission to protect the identity layer — not just from threats, but from failure itself. Our inclusion validates what we’ve seen firsthand from our work with customers: IAM is a critical layer of infrastructure, and yet it’s missing the fundamental safeguards every other system enjoys.
Acsense was built from the ground up as an IAM Resilience platform.
That means:
Continuous, immutable backups of your entire IAM tenant — including users, apps, groups, policies, roles, admin settings, and more.
One-click restoration to any previous point in time.
Full support for compliance: from audit logs to change tracking and integrity checks.
Sandbox seeding and tenant replication to support safe testing and disaster recovery.
Why It Matters Now
IAM isn’t just an IT tool anymore.
It’s the front door to your business.
A breach, a misconfiguration, or a deletion can mean:
Inability for employees or customers to log in
Breakdown of MFA or SSO flows
Unauthorized access or overprovisioning
Failure to meet compliance mandates like ISO 27001 or NIS2
Gartner’s recognition of IAM Backup shows the industry is waking up to the problem.
But most organizations haven’t yet acted.
What You Can Do
We believe IAM resilience should be as foundational as endpoint protection or network segmentation.
If your business relies on IAM to function, you need a recovery strategy:
Start by understanding what your IDP does — and doesn’t — protect
Consider how long it would take to recover your configuration manually
Map IAM into your existing BCDR plans
Evaluate whether your current tooling provides enough visibility and control
Acsense is here to help.
We’ve worked with some of the most security-conscious organizations in the world — and what we deliver isn’t just backup.
It’s confidence.
✅ Confidence that your identity infrastructure is recoverable.
✅ Confidence that you can meet audit and compliance demands.
✅ Confidence that you won’t be flying blind during a breach.
🔗 Learn how IAM Resilience starts with recovery readiness: www.acsense.com
🔗 Read the Gartner Hype Cycle report
