Keeper Security Named in Gartner PAM Magic Quadrant for Second Year

What Keeper Security announced

Keeper Security, which describes itself as a zero-trust and zero-knowledge identity security platform, announced the recognition on Oct. 26, 2026. According to the company, the Gartner report evaluates vendors on their Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision, and Keeper's recognition was based on those two criteria.

In Keeper's view, this year's result reflects the cloud-native architecture of KeeperPAM and its unified approach to the full identity lifecycle. The company lists passwords and secrets, endpoint privilege management and AI agent governance as part of that scope. The Gartner report, titled Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management, is dated 21 October 2026 and credits authors Paul Mezzera, Shubham Gera, Tarun Rohilla and Scott Brinker.

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Product updates behind the claim

Keeper points to several recent releases that it says address identity-based threats facing enterprises:

• KeeperDB for passwordless database management.
• Universal Secrets Sync, which pushes secrets directly to cloud-native vaults and extends secrets governance across modern infrastructure.
• KeeperAI, which now extends behavioral threat detection across privileged session protocols to detect anomalous agentic AI activity and trigger automated session responses.

According to Keeper, KeeperAI treats AI agents as privileged users, with full audit and policy enforcement.

Craig Lurey, CTO and Co-founder of Keeper Security, argued that the difference from legacy platforms shows up during deployment. "When you try to add remote access management or secrets governance to a system that was originally designed to be on-prem, then lifted and shifted to the cloud, you're always fighting the original design," he said. He added that Keeper built KeeperPAM as cloud-native and identity-agnostic from the start.

AI agents as a new identity challenge

Keeper frames the news around the spread of AI agents inside organizations. In its words, every agent introduces a new identity, attack surface and compliance obligation. The company says identity governance now spans passwords, secrets, machines and AI agents, each needing the same audit trails, policy enforcement and session visibility.

Keeper also cites other 2026 recognition, including the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, which it says recognized the company for Innovation and Zero Trust leadership. CEO and Co-founder Darren Guccione said Keeper has "designed our identity security platform specifically for" the changing security landscape.

On compliance, the company lists FedRAMP High Certification, GovRAMP High Authorization, SOC 2 Type II attestation, ISO 27001 certification and FIPS 140-3 validation. Keeper says these provide assurance to customers in commercial and public sector environments.

What it means for security teams

The announcement is a vendor's own reading of an analyst report, and Gartner itself cautions that its publications are opinions rather than statements of fact. For security teams, the more concrete signal is the direction Keeper describes: PAM tools are being expected to cover non-human identities and AI agents alongside human administrators. Keeper argues that teams need a platform built for that from the beginning, not one retrofitted later. Buyers can read the full Gartner report, which Keeper links via keepersecurity.com, to compare vendors on their own criteria.