Frost Radar™: Digital Identity, 2026

Aerospace, Defence and Security Frost Radar™: Digital Identity, 2026

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Security

RELEASE DATE
22-May-2026
REGION
Global
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Frost Radar

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PG7L-01-00-00-00
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Frost Radar™: Digital Identity, 2026
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Digital identity is moving from isolated national ID programs to interconnected ecosystems including governments, enterprises, and platforms. Public sector investments in foundational IDs, biometrics, and trust frameworks now intersect with private sector demand for reusable, high-assurance identity in banking, telecom, travel, and digital services. At the same time, wallets, verifiable credentials, consent layers, and interoperability standards are reshaping how identity is issued, shared, and relied upon under increasing regulatory, security, and user experience pressures globally. This analysis helps readers understand where value and responsibility sit across the digital identity stack. It clarifies which vendors anchor identity as platforms, which enable ecosystems through specialist capabilities, and which consume identity as relying parties. By mapping capabilities across identity creation, credential infrastructure, usage, cryptographic trust, and governance, it highlights realistic vendor roles, avoids category inflation, and supports informed decisions about partnerships, procurement, and long-term ecosystem design for governments, enterprises, regulators, and technology providers worldwide.

Frost & Sullivan analyzes numerous companies in an industry. Those selected for further analysis based on their leadership or other distinctions are benchmarked across 10 Growth and Innovation criteria to reveal their position on the Frost Radar™. The publication presents competitive profiles of each company on the Frost Radar™ considering their strengths and the opportunities that best fit those strengths.

Author: Deepali Sathe

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HID Global

IBM

Indicio

IN Groupe

NEC

Signicat

TECH5

Thales

TOPPAN Security

Veridos

Best Practices

Growth Opportunities

Significance of Being on the Frost Radar™

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Frost Radar™: Benchmarking Future Growth Potential 2 Major Indices, 10 Analytical Ingredients, 1 Platform

Growth Index

Growth Index (GI) is a measure of a company’s growth performance and track record, along with its ability to develop and execute a fully aligned growth strategy and vision; a robust growth pipeline system; and effective market, competitor, and end-user focused sales and marketing strategies.

  • Market Share (previous 3 years)
    This is a comparison of a company’s market share relative to its competitors in a given market space for the previous 3 years.
  • Revenue Growth (previous 3 years)
    This is a look at a company’s revenue growth rate for the previous 3 years in the market/industry/category that forms the context for the given Frost Radar™.
  • Growth Pipeline
    This is an evaluation of the strength and leverage of a company’s growth pipeline system to continuously capture, analyze, and prioritize its universe of growth opportunities.
  • Vision and Strategy
    This is an assessment of how well a company’s growth strategy is aligned with its vision. Are the investments that a company is making in new products and markets consistent with the stated vision?
  • Sales and Marketing
    This is a measure of the effectiveness of a company’s sales and marketing efforts in helping it drive demand and achieve its growth objectives.

Innovation Index

Innovation Index (II) is a measure of a company’s ability to develop products/ services/ solutions (with a clear understanding of disruptive Mega Trends) that are globally applicable, are able to evolve and expand to serve multiple markets and are aligned to customers’ changing needs.

  • INNOVATION SCALABILITY
    This determines whether an organization’s innovations are globally scalable and applicable in both developing and mature markets, and also in adjacent and non-adjacent industry verticals.
  • RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
    This is a measure of the efficacy of a company’s R&D strategy, as determined by the size of its R&D investment and how it feeds the innovation pipeline.
  • PRODUCT PORTFOLIO
    This is a measure of a company’s product portfolio, focusing on the relative contribution of new products to its annual revenue.
  • MEGATRENDS LEVERAGE
    This is an assessment of a company’s proactive leverage of evolving, long-term opportunities and new business models, as the foundation of its innovation pipeline.
  • CUSTOMER ALIGNMENT
    This evaluates the applicability of a company’s products/services/solutions to current and potential customers, as well as how its innovation strategy is influenced by evolving customer needs.

Significance of Being on the Frost Radar™

Companies plotted on the Frost RadarTM are the leaders in the industry for growth, innovation, or both. They are instrumental in advancing the industry into the future.

  • GROWTH POTENTIAL
    Your organization has significant future growth potential, which makes it a Company to Action.
  • BEST PRACTICES
    Your organization is well positioned to shape Growth Pipeline™ best practices in your industry.
  • COMPETITIVE INTENSITY
    Your organization is one of the key drivers of competitive intensity in the growth environment.
  • CUSTOMER VALUE
    Your organization has demonstrated the ability to significantly enhance its customer value proposition.
  • PARTNER POTENTIAL
    Your organization is top of mind for customers, investors, value chain partners, and future talent as a significant value provider.

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Digital identity is moving from isolated national ID programs to interconnected ecosystems including governments, enterprises, and platforms. Public sector investments in foundational IDs, biometrics, and trust frameworks now intersect with private sector demand for reusable, high-assurance identity in banking, telecom, travel, and digital services. At the same time, wallets, verifiable credentials, consent layers, and interoperability standards are reshaping how identity is issued, shared, and relied upon under increasing regulatory, security, and user experience pressures globally. This analysis helps readers understand where value and responsibility sit across the digital identity stack. It clarifies which vendors anchor identity as platforms, which enable ecosystems through specialist capabilities, and which consume identity as relying parties. By mapping capabilities across identity creation, credential infrastructure, usage, cryptographic trust, and governance, it highlights realistic vendor roles, avoids category inflation, and supports informed decisions about partnerships, procurement, and long-term ecosystem design for governments, enterprises, regulators, and technology providers worldwide.

Frost & Sullivan analyzes numerous companies in an industry. Those selected for further analysis based on their leadership or other distinctions are benchmarked across 10 Growth and Innovation criteria to reveal their position on the Frost Radar™. The publication presents competitive profiles of each company on the Frost Radar™ considering their strengths and the opportunities that best fit those strengths.

Author: Deepali Sathe
More Information
Deliverable Type Frost Radar
Industries Aerospace, Defence and Security
No Index No
Is Prebook No
Keyword 1 Digital identity market
Keyword 2 Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Keyword 3 Secure authentication
Podcast No
Predecessor PC0B-01-00-00-00
WIP Number PG7L-01-00-00-00