CloudEagle.ai Recognized in Gartner’s Light Identity Governance and Administration Report

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“Identity security shouldn’t feel like an uphill battle,” Nidhi Jain, CEO and Founder, CloudEagle.

While conversing with a CISO at a fast-growing enterprise, he recalled how his team was drowning in access requests, chasing compliance checkboxes, and manually revoking orphaned accounts. "IGA feels like an uphill battle," he admitted. "It’s slow, complex, and doesn’t align with how we actually work today."

His frustration is one I hear often. Enterprises are accelerating their adoption of SaaS, AI, and cloud technologies, yet identity governance has remained stuck in the past, rigid, manual, and disconnected from business priorities.

That’s why I’m thrilled to share that CloudEagle has been recognized in Gartner’s Innovation Insight: Light Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) report. This recognition has come at the right time as we are incorporating Gen AI to enhance access management for enterprises. 

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1. Why This Recognition Matters?

For years, IGA solutions have been overly complex, expensive, and slow to implement. Organizations are tired of traditional, heavyweight systems that take months to deploy, require extensive IT overhead, and leave security gaps in the process.

Gartner’s Innovation Insight report highlights a new wave of Light IGA solutions that are leaner, automation-first platforms that address modern identity governance challenges without the bloat. CloudEagle’s inclusion in this report validates our approach:

✅ Automation-first identity governance: AI-driven access reviews, automated provisioning, and continuous compliance monitoring.

✅ A smarter way to manage SaaS access: Real-time visibility into who has access to what, eliminating security blind spots.

✅ Self-service access requests: Employees get the access they need securely, reducing IT bottlenecks.

✅ Least privilege enforcement: No more privilege creep, only the right access at the right time.

✅ Seamless integrations – Connect with IAM, ITSM, and security tools to unify governance across the SaaS stack.

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2. Why Enterprises Are Embracing Light IGA?

Light IGA solutions offer a faster, more cost-effective approach to identity governance, one that aligns with the agility modern enterprises demand.

Here’s why more organizations are making the switch to Light IGA:

Faster Time to Value & Lower Costs

Unlike full-scale IGA platforms that require months of implementation and heavy IT investment, Light IGA solutions deliver rapid ROI by focusing on core governance needs without unnecessary complexity.

Built for the Modern SaaS Stack

Enterprises are increasingly SaaS-first, yet traditional IGA struggles to keep up. Light IGA solutions are purpose-built for modern SaaS environments, providing deep integrations with today’s most-used cloud applications.

Seamless IAM & Security Integrations

Just like full IGA, Light IGA integrates with access management, privileged access management (PAM), and ticketing systems, ensuring smooth workflows across identity security.

Quicker Maturity & Deployment

Because Light IGA solutions offer a refined set of features, organizations achieve full deployment maturity faster, reducing security risks sooner rather than later.

Easier Maintenance & Administration

With a lightweight infrastructure and streamlined features, Light IGA reduces the operational burden on IAM teams, making it an ideal solution for businesses looking to scale identity security without excessive overhead.

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3. Access Management Challenges Faced by Enterprises

As enterprises scale and become increasingly reliant on cloud and SaaS applications, managing access has become a growing challenge. IT and security teams are struggling to maintain visibility, enforce least privilege policies, and keep up with evolving compliance regulations. 

What was once a straightforward process of granting and revoking access has now turned into a complex, fragmented, and risk-prone task. Here are the five biggest challenges enterprises face today.

A. Shadow IT & Unmanaged Access

The explosion of SaaS adoption has created a massive security gap: IT teams no longer have full visibility into the applications employees are using. In many organizations, employees sign up for SaaS tools independently, bypassing IT approval and introducing shadow IT into the system. 

Without centralized governance, sensitive company data is stored in applications that IT teams aren’t even aware of. This lack of visibility means enterprises have no control over who has access, how data is being shared, or whether security policies are being followed.

Unauthorized access to business-critical data can lead to data breaches, compliance violations, and operational inefficiencies. Based on our recent study more than 60% of enterprise applications operating outside IT’s control, organizations are exposed to risks they don’t even realize exist.

B. Privilege Creep & Overprovisioning 

One of the most overlooked but dangerous risks in access management is privilege creep, when employees accumulate permissions they no longer need. In many organizations, once access is granted, it is rarely revoked. 

Employees change roles, move between departments, or even leave the company, yet their access to sensitive applications remains intact. Over time, organizations end up with hundreds or even thousands of overprivileged accounts, making them a prime target for cyberattacks and insider threats.

C. Manual, Inefficient Access Reviews

Enterprises are required to perform regular access reviews to ensure that employees only have the access they need, but for many organizations, this process remains entirely manual. IT teams rely on spreadsheets, email approvals, and outdated review cycles, making access certifications slow, inconsistent, and error-prone. 

Instead of being a proactive security measure, access reviews often become a last-minute, check-the-box activity performed only when auditors demand proof of compliance.

In large organizations, managers are asked to review and approve access for dozens or even hundreds of employees, but without real-time visibility into usage data, they have no way of knowing whether access is truly necessary. 

As a result, approvals are often granted automatically, just to keep the process moving. The lack of automation and intelligence in access reviews leads to security gaps, compliance violations, and unnecessary risks that accumulate over time.

D. Siloed Identity & Access Management (IAM) Systems 

Many enterprises have deployed multiple identity and access management tools to handle different aspects of security, one for single sign-on (SSO), another for privileged access management (PAM), and separate systems for user provisioning and compliance reporting. 

While each of these tools serves an important function, they are often disconnected, creating fragmented identity governance that requires IT teams to manage multiple dashboards, manual integrations, and overlapping processes.

The result is a lack of centralized control over identity governance. IT and security teams waste hours reconciling data across different platforms, making it difficult to track who has access to what. Disjointed IAM systems not only slow down operations but also introduce security blind spots that attackers can exploit.

E. Compliance & Regulatory Challenges 

With increasing security regulations such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and HIPAA, enterprises are under immense pressure to demonstrate strong access controls and auditability. However, without real-time monitoring and automation, most organizations struggle to keep up with these compliance requirements.

Many companies still rely on manual tracking, ad-hoc reporting, and last-minute audit preparations, a time-consuming and inefficient approach. 

If auditors discover poor access management practices, inconsistent role-based controls, or missing access logs, organizations risk hefty fines, reputational damage, and even loss of business.

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4. Overcoming IGA challenges with CloudEagle.ai

A. Centralized Access Management

Traditionally, access management has been fragmented. Each team operates in its silo, using disconnected tools and processes that slow down operations and create inconsistent identity governance.

CloudEagle eliminates this fragmentation by offering out-of-the-box integrations with over 500 applications, unifying identity governance across the entire organization. 

With deep integrations into SSO providers, HR platforms, ITSM tools, and financial systems, CloudEagle bridges the gap between security, IT, HR, and finance, ensuring that access is managed holistically rather than in isolation.

With CloudEagle, IT teams can automate user provisioning and deprovisioning, security teams gain real-time access insights and policy enforcement, HR can seamlessly manage onboarding and offboarding workflows, and finance teams get visibility into SaaS usage and license costs. 

By replacing siloed, manual processes with an integrated, automated approach, CloudEagle helps enterprises achieve full control over identity governance, enhance security, and improve operational efficiency, all from one unified dashboard.

B. Privileged Access Management with Just-in-Time Access

Excessive privileges are one of the most common security risks in enterprises, leading to insider threats, credential abuse, and data breaches. 

CloudEagle enforces least privilege access by providing Just-in-Time (JIT) access, ensuring that users only receive elevated permissions when absolutely necessary, and for a limited time.

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Instead of granting standing admin rights, CloudEagle allows employees to request privileged access on-demand. These requests go through automated approval workflows, and once the task is completed, the access is automatically revoked. 

This reduces security risks, prevents privilege creep, and ensures compliance with industry regulations like SOC 2 and ISO 27001.

C. Automated Provisioning & Deprovisioning

Manually onboarding and offboarding employees across multiple applications is inefficient, error-prone, and a major security risk. 

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CloudEagle automates user provisioning and deprovisioning by integrating directly with HR platforms and directory services, ensuring that access is granted or revoked based on real-time employee status changes.

With policy-based automation, new hires are granted access to only the applications relevant to their role, while departing employees have all access automatically revoked within minutes, preventing security gaps. This eliminates orphaned accounts, reduces IT workload, and ensures faster employee onboarding with zero manual intervention.

Role-based access control

Enterprises often struggle to define and enforce consistent access policies due to the complexity of managing hundreds of roles across various departments. 

CloudEagle simplifies this with Gen AI-powered Role-Based Access Controls (RBAC), ensuring that users are automatically assigned the correct permissions based on their role, department, and business needs.

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Instead of manually configuring access for each new employee, CloudEagle’s AI-driven system dynamically assigns and adjusts permissions based on contextual signals and real-time data. 

This reduces overprovisioning, improves operational efficiency, and ensures that employees only have access to the resources they need to do their jobs, nothing more, nothing less.

D. Automate App Access Reviews with Gen AI

Traditional access reviews are slow, manual, and often treated as a compliance checkbox rather than a true security measure. CloudEagle leverages Gen AI to automate access reviews, making them more intelligent and actionable.

Instead of IT teams manually reviewing each user’s access, CloudEagle’s AI-powered system analyzes access patterns, detects anomalies in behaviors, and recommends revocations based on real-time usage data. Managers receive AI-generated recommendations, allowing them to approve or revoke access with a single click.

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Instead of waiting for quarterly reviews, IT teams can enforce compliance proactively, reducing security gaps and minimizing audit risks.

With CloudEagle, every access decision is logged, tracked, and easily retrievable, ensuring that auditors have a clear, verifiable record of access approvals and revocations. This reduces compliance violations, eliminates review fatigue, and ensures that your organization remains secure and audit-ready, at all times.

E. Shadow IT Alerts & Self-Service App Catalog

CloudEagle proactively detects and alerts IT teams about unauthorized app usage, giving them the ability to assess risks and take action before security incidents occur.

To prevent shadow IT, CloudEagle offers a Self-Service App Catalog, allowing employees to request access to approved applications through Slack, Microsoft Teams, or a dedicated portal. IT teams can set up automated approval workflows, ensuring that access requests are processed efficiently while maintaining security and compliance.

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A Quick Rundown of How CloudEagle.ai Can Help Enterprises Like Yours

• Complete SaaS Discovery & Visibility: Identify and monitor all SaaS applications in use, including shadow IT, to eliminate hidden costs and security risks.
  
  
• Centralized Access Management: Integrate with 500+ applications, SSO providers, HR platforms, and ITSM tools to unify IT, security, HR, and finance teams under a single access governance framework.

• Automated Provisioning & Deprovisioning: Reduce manual IT workloads with policy-based access automation, ensuring users have the right access at the right time.

• Just-in-Time Privileged Access Management: Prevent privilege creep by granting elevated permissions only when needed, with automatic revocation to enhance security.

• AI-Powered Access Reviews: Leverage Gen AI to automate access reviews, providing smart recommendations based on real-time usage data.

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• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) with AI: Dynamically assign permissions based on user roles, departments, and contextual signals to prevent overprovisioning.
  
  
• Shadow IT Alerts & Self-Service App Catalog: Detect unauthorized app usage and enable employees to request approved apps via Slack, Teams, Jira, or ServiceNow for faster approvals.
  
  
• Optimize SaaS Spend & Reduce Costs: Identify underutilized licenses, automate cost-saving recommendations, and track renewals to prevent auto-renewal waste.

• AI-Powered Price Benchmarking & Vendor Negotiation: Use pricing intelligence from 2B+ transactions to secure better contract terms and maximize ROI.

• Renewal & Contract Management: Consolidate all SaaS contracts in one place, receive 90-day renewal alerts, and avoid unexpected cost spikes.
  
  
• Deep Feature-Level Usage Insights: Move beyond login tracking with API-powered insights into how applications are truly being used.
  
  
• Access Governance & Security Compliance: Automate zero-trust security policies, enforce least privilege access, and ensure compliance with SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR.

• SaaS Procurement Experts On-Demand: Let CloudEagle’s procurement specialists handle vendor negotiations, so your teams can focus on strategic initiatives.

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Conclusion

Managing SaaS access, security, and spend doesn’t have to be a challenge. With CloudEagle’s AI-driven, automation-first approach, you can eliminate security risks, reduce IT workload, and streamline compliance, all from one unified platform.

Recognized in Gartner’s Innovation Insight: Light IGA report, CloudEagle is built to help you gain real-time visibility, automate access governance, and optimize your SaaS ecosystem with ease.

Ready to simplify access management and stay ahead of security risks?

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