NEW YORK - October 29, 2025 - Orchid Security, the company bringing clarity and control to the complexity of enterprise identity, today announced its recognition by Gartner as a Cool Vendor in the 2025 Gartner Cool Vendors in Identity-First Security report. The report spotlights innovative vendors helping organizations identify real-time security risks, mitigate threats, and embrace identity-first approaches, all without disrupting existing IAM processes. This recognition highlights Orchid’s position as the only identity infrastructure empowering enterprises to securely and compliantly manage identity, with full visibility, control, and automation across modern ecosystems- wherever they run- through AI-driven insights and seamless orchestration.
According to Gartner, “As digital transformation, cloud migration, remote work, and API-centric architectures erode the traditional enterprise perimeter, security models based on network boundaries are no longer adequate to ensure protection. In response, a new paradigm has emerged: identity-first security — a strategy that places identity at the center of security architecture.” *
Gartner notes that Orchid “leverages AI and LLMs to correlate data and perform advanced analytics, continuously uncovering blind spots and gaps in coverage that are commonly missed through the IAM development and onboarding processes.” They continue, “Orchid Security distinguishes itself with advanced visibility, observability, fabric, and orchestration capabilities for applications that enhance both security posture and business automation.” Gartner also asserts that “this infrastructural orchestration-centric approach positions Orchid as a uniquely differentiated player in the IAM landscape.”*
“It is an honor to be recognized by Gartner as a Cool Vendor,” said Roy Katmor, co-founder and CEO of Orchid Security. “Orchid is committed to helping enterprises navigate the shift to identity-first security - where visibility, automation, and AI-driven analysis work together to provide unprecedented visibility straight from the source: the applications themselves. Even as identity dark matter, the unmanaged and unseen half of enterprise identity, continues to grow, Orchid enables organizations to see identity as coded and as used, across both managed and unmanaged systems. By revealing hidden access paths and strengthening governance via infrastructural orchestration, enterprises can finally achieve evidence-based control.”
Orchid’s platform continuously discovers enterprise applications, automatically analyzes authentication and authorization flows, comparing them against regulatory requirements and cybersecurity frameworks to enable true risk-based prioritization. It then streamlines resolution by augmenting native controls and simplifying onboarding into IAM systems, with little to no effort or coding. By uncovering and addressing the “identity dark matter” hidden across environments, Orchid helps organizations reduce cybersecurity risk, lower operational costs, and meet compliance requirements at scale. Backed by Intel Capital and Team8, Orchid is already trusted by Fortune 500 and global 2000 organizations across industries.
* Gartner, “Cool Vendors in Identity-First Security,” Yemi Davies, Brian Guthrie, Nathan Harris, Rebecca Archambault, Paul Rabinovich, Steve Wessels, 24 October 2025.
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About Orchid Security
Orchid Security sees straight into application code to deliver the industry’s first Identity Control Plane, transforming IAM complexity into clarity, compliance and control. Its Identity-First Security Orchestration platform continuously discovers enterprise applications, analyzes their native authentication and authorization flows, and accelerates onboarding into governance systems—cutting months of manual work into a single click. By exposing and remediating the “identity dark matter” hidden across modern environments, Orchid helps enterprises reduce risk, lower operational costs and achieve compliance at scale. Backed by Intel Capital and Team8, Orchid leverages observability, automation and large language models to unify fragmented identity operations. Global organizations rely on Orchid to, among other things, modernize identity governance, accelerate IGA adoption and secure the next generation of applications and AI agents.
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