How does this research help organizations?
A Gartner Magic Quadrant is a culmination of research in a specific market, giving you a wide-angle view of the relative positions of the market’s vendors. This research offers enterprises an objective and holistic assessment of recognized PAM vendors based on their overall Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute.
If you're a CISO, Director of IT, I&O leader, or an IT administrator, here's what the report provides:
A snapshot of the trends shaping the PAM landscape
A detailed evaluation of PAM vendors, including their strengths and cautions
Why Gartner recognized ManageEngine a Challenger in this year's Magic Quadrant Research
Top reasons why we believe ManageEngine has been named a Challenger
Innovation-led identity security
At ManageEngine, innovation drives how PAM360 evolves. We support innovation-led security, be it building AI-native capabilities or infusing home-grown automation across our security portfolio, ManageEngine helps enterprises simplify security and strengthen their resilience. From managing human, non-human, and even AI identities, every capability in PAM360 has been built from the ground up never through acquisitions. With over half our revenue invested in R&D, PAM360 keeps evolving right alongside your enterprise. Check out our solutions here.
Easy to deploy, get started in days
ManageEngine delivers a simple and ready to use PAM solution that's ideal for deployment in complex environments. These ensure your organization achieves full value quickly for its IT security investments.
Native Zero Trust privilege
PAM360 delivers granular Zero Trust PAM controls, including real-time risk assessment, trust scoring of devices and users, policy- and role-based access controls, and application and command filtering. In addition, this PAM360 also offers end-to-end certificate lifecycle management (CLM) capabilities.
Compliance and cyber insurance-ready PAM solution
With compliance and cyber insurance mandates becoming mandatory for many organizations, PAM360 includes all the requisite capabilities to help ensure you effortlessly adhere to industry standards and insurance requirements. Here's how we help you comply.
The single vendor advantage
Zoho Corporation, ManageEngine's parent organization, boasts an almost inexhaustible IT and business solutions portfolio built individually from the ground up, unlike relying on acquisitions to fill product gaps. Every solution is homegrown and designed to work in tandem with the rest of our ecosystem. This makes our solutions much more approachable, easing vendor fatigue, spiking ROI, and making a full-fledged privileged access management deployment available at arm's reach.
Strong and thriving global presence
ManageEngine has been catering to the IT management needs of leading organizations for over 20 years and is well-represented across the globe through its active customer base in over 150 countries. ManageEngine is supported by a strong global channel presence comprised of more than 200 partners, including system integrators, distributors, and resellers, who are well-trained to provide localized technical and implementation support to our customers.
Over 5000 enterprises and 1 million+ admins trust ManageEngine with their PAM!
Additional resources
Ensuring compliance with the NIS2 Directive with PAM
The true cost of a PAM implementation
PAM360 Buyer’s Guide 2025
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