August 2026 Summaries

Veza presents an Identity Security Maturity Model intended to help enterprises assess and plan identity security and governance programs across human users, non-human identities such as service accounts and API keys, and AI agents. The model organizes capabilities into five connected pillars—visibility, intelligence and analytics, monitoring and orchestration, workflows, and control—and maps them across four maturity stages from partial, manual practices to adaptive, automated, real-time operations. It emphasizes that organizations need a unified access graph and entitlement data before they can identify high-risk access, prioritize remediation, automate reviews and provisioning, and sustain least-privilege controls. The framework also distinguishes between identity security and identity governance functions while encouraging their closer coordination, and recommends integrating core systems, focusing on high-impact risks, connecting findings to operational workflows, and extending automation to non-human and AI identities as identity environments continue to expand.