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NextLabs Named Overall Leader in KuppingerCole’s Cloud Infrastructure & Entitlement Management (CIEM) Leadership Compass Report

Rated as Leader in all three evaluation categories

June 4, 2025

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San Mateo, Calif. – June 4, 2025- NextLabs, a global leader in Zero Trust policy platform and Data-Centric Security software, is proud to announce its recognition as an Overall Leader in KuppingerCole Analysts’ Leadership Compass: Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) report. Authored by KuppingerCole Lead Analyst Paul Fisher, the report also ranks NextLabs as a Leader in all three evaluation categories: Product Leadership, Innovation Leadership, and Market Leadership. 

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KuppingerCole’s Leadership Compass is a trusted resource for enterprises seeking detailed evaluations of vendors in specific market segments. The CIEM report highlights top solutions that address the growing challenge of managing cloud entitlements and enforcing least-privilege access across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. 

“We are honored to be recognized not only as an overall leader, but also as a product, innovation, and market leader by KuppingerCole,” said Keng Lim,  Keng Lim, Founder and CEO of NextLabs. “This comprehensive leadership ranking reflects our commitment to delivering advanced policy-driven authorization management and security solutions that help enterprises protect sensitive data and achieve Zero Trust at scale.” 

In the report, Paul Fisher notes that NextLabs stands out for its dynamic policy enforcement, deep integration across enterprise systems, and mature CIEM capabilities tailored for complex global organizations. Built on its patented Dynamic Authorization policy engine and Zero Trust policy platform, NextLabs’ solution offers: 

  • Fine-grained, policy-based access control (PBAC) 
  • Real-time entitlement analysis and automated policy enforcement 
  • Seamless out-of-the-box (OOTB) integration across leading cloud providers and 100s of enterprise applications 
  • Scalable, centralized policy governance and lifecycle management 
  • The most comprehensive data-centric security solution enabling organizations to protect structured and unstructured data throughout its entire lifecycle: at rest, in transit, and in use

As organizations accelerate their digital transformation, the need to secure access to sensitive resources across distributed environments has never been greater. NextLabs continues to lead the way by empowering Fortune 2000 companies and government agencies to implement Zero Trust Data-Centric Security and enforce consistent, intelligent access management and data protection policies across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. 

To read the Leadership Compass report in full, please visit https://www.kuppingercole.com/research/lc80465/cloud-infrastructure-entitlement-management-ciem.  

To learn more about the NextLabs platform and CloudAz, please visit https://www.nextlabs.com/products/cloudaz-policy-platform/

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