Introduction:

The recently released 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Access Management report recognizes Alibaba Cloud for its cloud security Identity as a Service (IDaaS). This is Alibaba Cloud's first time being included in this Magic Quadrant, and it is also the sole APEC vendor to be recognized.

Gartner defines access management (AM) as tools that include authentication, authorization, single sign-on (SSO) and adaptive access capabilities for modern standards-based web applications, classic web applications and APIs.

“AM’s purpose is to give people (employees, consumers and other users) and machines access to protected applications in a streamlined and consistent way that enhances the user experience. For people, SSO is part of the enhanced experience. AM is also responsible for providing security controls to protect the user session during runtime. It enforces authentication and runtime authorization using adaptive access. Lastly, AM can provide identity context for other cybersecurity tools and reliant applications to enable identity-first security.”

Source: Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Access Management, Brian Guthrie, Nathan Harris, 11 November 2025

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