Where Gartner Sees Identity Security Heading with Mark Diodati, Managing VP of IAM at Gartner

May 26, 2026

This episode features Mark Diodati, Managing Vice President for Identity and Access Management at Gartner.

Mark has spent two decades shaping how the industry thinks about authentication, privileged access, and cloud identity, working with renowned companies like Ping Identity, CA, RSA, and now, Gartner. Today, he leads Gartner’s global IAM analyst team and sets the research agenda across the full identity stack.

In this episode, Mark explains how Gartner’s research model works and what his team is prioritizing across identity verification, authorization, ITDR, and decentralized identity. He also breaks down what AI means for identity right now and why securing AI agents is harder than most teams realize.

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