NextGen Identity Security

Identity security alternatives, vendor by vendor

SHORT ANSWER

Each page lists the products that compete with one vendor in the topics we score, ranked by score, and shows where each alternative scores higher and where the original is still stronger.

Editorial assessment · Desk research from public vendor material · Reviewed 2026-09-29

Aembit

Access management for workloads and AI agents

AI agent security and identity · Non-human identities · MCP security

CyberArk Secrets Manager

Secrets management for applications and pipelines

Non-human identities

Descope

Customer and agentic identity platform for developers

MCP security

Docker MCP Enterprise Gateway

Governed gateway for MCP servers

MCP security

Entro Security

Non-human identity and secrets security

Non-human identities

Google Cloud Identity

Google's identity service for Workspace and cloud

Workforce IAM

JumpCloud

Directory, SSO and device management for small and mid-size IT

Workforce IAM

Microsoft Defender for Identity

Identity threat detection in Microsoft Defender

ITDR

Microsoft Entra

Microsoft's identity family: Entra ID, Entra Agent ID

AI agent security and identity · Workforce IAM

NewCore

Identity provider for people and AI agents, launched June 2026

AI agent security and identity · ITDR · Non-human identities · MCP security · Workforce IAM · Identity visibility and hygiene

Oasis Security

Non-human identity security, now part of Cyera

Non-human identities

Okta

Workforce identity platform with AI agent add-ons

AI agent security and identity · ITDR · Workforce IAM

Ping Identity

Workforce and customer identity, cloud or self-managed

Workforce IAM

Push Security

Browser-based identity security

Identity visibility and hygiene

Semperis

Active Directory and Entra ID protection and recovery

ITDR · Identity visibility and hygiene

Silverfort

Inline identity protection across on-prem, cloud and agents

AI agent security and identity · ITDR · Non-human identities · MCP security · Identity visibility and hygiene

Veza

Access graph and identity security posture

Identity visibility and hygiene

Questions

Why is a vendor listed under several topics?

Some products cover more than one problem. Silverfort, for example, is scored in 5 topics. Its alternatives page has one section per topic.

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