ARCON
India’s home-grown PAM leader — Mumbai-built, a Challenger in Gartner’s 2025 PAM Magic Quadrant, securing 100M+ identities across 1500+ organisations on six continents, deeply trusted across Indian & Middle-East banking. This hub is your complete intel file.
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The company, at a glance
Quick answer
Seven intel pages. One identity-first platform.
The identity-first suite — every card is a complete intel page, across PAM, EPM, Converged Identity, Global Remote Access, Security Compliance Management, My Vault and Cloud Governance.
ARCON Privileged Access Management
India’s home-grown PAM, global-grade.
Vaulting, session control, MFA, SSO, just-in-time privilege and ITDR, securing 100M+ identities. A Challenger in Gartner’s 2025 PAM MQ.
ARCON Endpoint Privilege Management
Just-in-time privilege at the endpoint.
Removes standing admin rights and grants just-in-time, rule- and role-based access to business-critical apps on Zero Trust principles.
ARCON Converged Identity
Access, governance and identity, converged.
Access management, identity governance and identity security in one identity-first platform, instead of disconnected point tools.
ARCON Global Remote Access
Remote access, secured and recorded.
Agentless remote access for employees, vendors and third parties to critical systems, with least privilege, recording and no VPN.
ARCON Security Compliance Management
Continuous risk and compliance.
Continuous risk assessment and compliance automation: baselines configs, detects drift, proves compliance to RBI, SEBI, ISO, PCI.
ARCON My Vault
Every credential, securely stored.
An encrypted central repository that stores, shares and auto-rotates passwords, keys and secrets, with full audit. ARCON’s vault layer.
ARCON Cloud Governance
Govern cloud access and entitlements.
CIEM across AWS, Azure and GCP: visibility and control over cloud entitlements, right-sizing over-permissioned identities.
ARCON MFA & SSO
Also availableARCON’s adaptive multi-factor authentication and single sign-on — available standalone or within PAM / Converged Identity.
ARCON Drift Management & ITDR
Also availableConfiguration-drift detection and Identity Threat Detection & Response — the analytics layer across ARCON’s identity security.
ARCON sells across 6 of the products TechBag carries in identity & access. The Identity & Access guide shows how the category splits and which part is yours. →
Why “India-built, global-grade” is the whole story
Global PAM is powerful but foreign to Indian compliance and costly to support locally. ARCON bet on India-built, global-grade identity security — a Gartner-recognised PAM, attuned to RBI/SEBI, locally supported, securing 100M+ identities. India’s home-grown leader.
ARCON PAM
The award-winning privileged-access suite — access control, MFA, SSO, session management, vaulting, JIT and ITDR — securing 100M+ identities. India-built, global-grade.
EPM + Global Remote Access
Endpoint least privilege (JIT, Zero Trust) and secure agentless remote access for employees, vendors and third parties.
Converged Identity
Access management, identity governance and identity security converged on an identity-first model — not disconnected point tools.
SCM + Cloud Governance
Continuous risk and compliance (RBI/SEBI/ISO/PCI) and cloud entitlement governance (CIEM) — assurance across on-prem and cloud.
India-built, globally trusted
Mumbai R&D, 1500+ organisations across six continents, a Challenger in Gartner’s 2025 PAM Magic Quadrant — India’s home-grown identity-security leader.
Start with your biggest identity risk — privileged access, local admin, compliance or cloud — and expand across one identity-first platform.
Peer & market recognition
Every claim on this hub traces to one of these public signals.
PAM MQ Challenger
2025 — sixth year in the report
100M+ identities secured
1500+ orgs, 6 continents
Mumbai R&D
Founder Anil Bhandari
ET Emerging Business Leaders 2024
Most Innovative (India)
Trusted across BFSI
Axis, SBI Life, RAK Bank
Award-winning suite
MFA, SSO, JIT, ITDR
Strong regional presence
Al-Futtaim, NBF, RAK
Converged Identity
Unified model
The company in six figures
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Privileged Access Management — An Overview
What PAM is and how ARCON approaches privileged access, from ARCON.
The Access Battle — Securing Privileged Access with ARCON PAM
Why privileged accounts are the battleground, and how ARCON defends them.
User Onboarding — An ARCON PAM Feature
Hands-on: onboarding users into ARCON PAM.
Where ARCON sits — the grids
Two company-level views you won’t find on any vendor site — tap any dot for the rationale. The category-level grid lives on the product page.
ARCON Across Its Identity Suite
Each dot is an ARCON product: competitive position vs category momentum.
The flagship — PAM MQ Challenger 2025, 100M+ identities.
The Capability × India-Fit Map
PAM capability vs India/BFSI fit & local support — where ARCON leads at home.
India’s home-grown PAM leader: a Gartner PAM MQ Challenger (2025), 100M+ identities, trusted across Indian and Middle-East BFSI.
Positions are TechBag’s illustrative synthesis of public review-platform standings and vendor documentation — not a reproduction of any analyst graphic. Verify before relying on it.
New to this? Learn it properly.
Zero-jargon starting points, in reading order. Each links into the deep education on the product page.
Where should you start with ARCON?
Answer three questions; we’ll point you at the right starting product. No email required — this isn’t that kind of quiz.
1. What's your most pressing identity-security need?
2. Which sentence sounds most like you?
3. What does success look like?
What is PAM?
PAM explained: why admin accounts are what attackers hunt first, and what vaulting and session control change.
Read →Vaulting + sessions + JIT
The core of PAM — credential vaulting, session management, and just-in-time privileges.
Read →What is EPM?
Endpoint Privilege Management — removing standing admin rights with just-in-time elevation.
Read →Converged / identity-first
Why converging access, governance and identity beats disconnected identity point tools.
Read →Continuous compliance (SCM)
How continuous risk and compliance (RBI/SEBI/ISO) beats the periodic audit scramble.
Read →ARCON vs the field
The honest matrix vs CyberArk, Delinea, BeyondTrust and Securden — depth, India-fit, cost.
Read →The acronym decoder
Every term on these pages, in one place- PAM
- Privileged Access Management — governing who holds admin rights, how they use them, and the record of it.
- Vaulting
- Holding privileged passwords and keys in an encrypted vault that brokers sessions rather than revealing the secret.
- Session management
- Controlling, recording and monitoring privileged sessions.
- JIT privileges
- Just-in-time — granting privileged access only when needed, then revoking it.
- ITDR
- Identity Threat Detection & Response — detecting and responding to identity-based attacks.
- EPM
- Endpoint Privilege Management — removing standing admin rights, elevating just-in-time.
- Converged Identity
- Unifying access management, governance and identity security in one model.
- GRA
- Global Remote Access — ARCON’s secure agentless remote connectivity.
- SCM
- Security Compliance Management — continuous risk assessment and compliance.
- CIEM
- Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management — governing cloud access rights (Cloud Governance).
- Identity-first
- A security model where identity is the primary perimeter and control point.
- MFA / SSO
- Multi-factor authentication and single sign-on — core to ARCON’s identity security.
Buy it like you’ve done this before
The procurement playbook TechBag runs with IT buyers — steps, licensing cheat-sheet, and the pitfalls that cost quarters.
Start with your identity risk
Privileged access (PAM), local admin (EPM), compliance (SCM) or cloud (Cloud Governance)? Name the primary risk first; TechBag scopes it free.
Value the India-built advantage
ARCON is India-built (Mumbai R&D), attuned to RBI/SEBI compliance, locally supported and on Gartner’s PAM MQ. That home-ground fit counts.
PoC on your real environment
Vault real privileged credentials, record sessions, remove local admin or run a compliance baseline on your own environment, with ARCON + TechBag support.
Plan the identity-first path
ARCON’s identity-first model lets you grow from PAM to EPM, Converged Identity, Cloud Governance and compliance without new vendors. Map that path.
Weigh vs global PAM
CyberArk is the deepest global PAM; ARCON competes on Gartner-recognised capability, BFSI fit, local support and cost. Decide which matters more.
Buy and run it via TechBag
TechBag handles ARCON licensing, deployment, PoCs, RBI/SEBI compliance mapping and support, with GST invoicing and ARCON’s India presence behind it.
The licensing cheat-sheet
| Product | Licensing model | How you enter | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARCON PAM | Per user / by scope | Full PAM suite | Privileged access management |
| ARCON EPM | Per endpoint / user | Endpoint least privilege | Removing local admin |
| Global Remote Access | By users / vendors | Secure remote access | Remote & third-party access |
| SCM / Cloud Governance | By scope | Compliance & cloud entitlements | Continuous compliance & CIEM |
ARCON prices by scope / users. TechBag negotiates and models the module mix, in INR/GST, with local ARCON support.
Five pitfalls that cost buyers quarters
Overlooking the India / BFSI fit
For Indian BFSI facing RBI/SEBI norms, ARCON’s India-built pedigree, local support and compliance fit matter. Shortlisting only global vendors can miss that.
Buying PAM without EPM
Vaulting privileged credentials (PAM) is essential, but standing local-admin rights on endpoints are a separate attack path. Skipping ARCON EPM leaves it open. For real least privilege, pair PAM with EPM.
Treating compliance as periodic
Compliance run as a periodic audit scramble leaves gaps. ARCON SCM makes it continuous, with baselining, drift detection and evidence that is always ready.
Forgetting cloud entitlements
On-prem PAM is essential, but cloud over-permissioning is a top cloud attack path. ARCON Cloud Governance (CIEM) right-sizes cloud entitlements — don’t leave the cloud-identity dimension unmanaged.
Under-scoping vs global depth
CyberArk goes deeper for the most demanding global estates; scope it if you need that. For most Indian enterprises, ARCON’s capability, India fit and cost win.
The evaluation kit
Each intel page carries an 8-question vendor checklist and a value calculator:
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Book a discovery call →The forces shaping this market
Six trends with momentum scores (TechBag’s read of analyst and market signals) — and what each means for your next decision.
Category momentum — estimated market growth
Illustrative CAGR synthesis**Directionally consistent with public analyst forecasts; verify exact figures before quoting. The takeaway: CIEM and ITDR compound fastest — exactly where ARCON's Cloud Governance and identity-threat capabilities are placed.
India’s DPDP, RBI & SEBI drive PAM
India’s DPDP Act and RBI/SEBI cyber norms push regulated firms to control and audit privileged access — ARCON’s home ground.
What it means for you
PAM and continuous compliance are increasingly mandated in India; scope them.
Identity-first / converged security
PAM, IAM, governance and cloud entitlements are converging into identity-first platforms like ARCON’s Converged Identity.
What it means for you
Identity is the perimeter; buy a converged platform, not disconnected tools.
Machine & cloud identity explode
Over-permissioned cloud and machine identities are the fastest-growing attack path, driving CIEM (Cloud Governance) and ITDR.
What it means for you
Extend identity security to cloud and non-human identities, not just human PAM.
Just-in-time everything
Standing privileged access is being replaced by just-in-time access granted only when needed — core to ARCON PAM and EPM.
What it means for you
JIT access shrinks the attack window; prioritise it.
India-built security rising
India-built security vendors such as ARCON and InstaSafe are proven, cost-effective and locally supported.
What it means for you
Home-grown, Gartner-recognised security deserves serious evaluation.
ITDR / identity threat response
Identity Threat Detection & Response, against identity-based attacks, is a fast-emerging layer; ARCON builds it into PAM.
What it means for you
Detecting identity attacks (not just controlling access) is the next PAM frontier.
Questions buyers ask about ARCON
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