CIEM Adoption Market Research Brief

CIEM is a process and your workflow is a touchpoint

Products across the industry are integrating cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) into their workflows.

k9 Security has been tracking companies targeting Enterprise customers across cloud security categories since May 2023 and identifying which companies also have a CIEM product in their portfolio.

We’ve updated and expanded our research of the current trends of CIEM adoption in the Cloud Security market as of November 2024. This update covers 142 companies across 12 categories. In this survey, k9 found that 69 of 142 tracked companies now have CIEM capabilities (~49%).

Key Takeaways

Most notably, year-over-year trends show CIEM integrating into long-established categories:

• Cloud Management Platforms: 27% (4/15 vendors), +20pp YoY
• Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB): 38% (5/13 vendors), +15pp YoY
• Privileged Access Management (PAM): 52% (14/27 vendors), +14pp YoY
• Identity Governance & Administration (IGA): 50% (10/20 vendors), +13pp YoY

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