FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 19, 2025
Hydden Announces Launch of Control: AI-Powered Identity Governance For The Future
NEW YORK, NY – November 19, 2025 – Hydden, the identity visibility company, today announced the launch of Hydden Control, an AI-powered governance platform that fundamentally reimagines how enterprises manage identity and access. Unlike conventional Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) solutions, Control deploys in minutes and immediately begins discovering, onboarding, and governing identity data across an organization’s entire infrastructure—from legacy systems to cloud platforms to AI agents. Built on Hydden’s real-time Identity Data Layer, Control automates manual processes that have turned identity governance into what industry analysts call a “graveyard of failed projects.” Leveraging Hydden AI, Control automates user access reviews, campaigns, and intelligently observes access patterns and policies that play out in real time.
The platform addresses a crisis that has plagued enterprise IT for over a decade: the inability of traditional identity governance and administration (IGA) tools to keep pace with complex, hybrid, and increasingly AI-native environments. According to recent Gartner research, more than 50% of IGA deployments are currently under duress, with enterprises spending millions on implementations that fail to deliver promised security or compliance benefits.
Identity Governance has become too complex and too expensive for most organizations to achieve meaningful security outcomes,” said Jai Dargan, CEO and Co-Founder of Hydden. “The traditional IGA model saddles enterprises with ballooning implementation costs, endless connector projects, and a dependency on professional services that never seem to end. This unsustainable economics model is driven by fundamental fragmentation—siloed tools, disconnected identity data, and distributed teams working without a common source of truth. We built Control to break this cycle and to help companies drive automation and reduce risk while maintaining compliance.”
Control operates on top of Hydden’s identity data platform, which continuously discovers and normalizes identity data across legacy systems, cloud infrastructure, SaaS applications, and emerging AI agents. This foundation of real-time, comprehensive data enables Control to deliver three capabilities that have remained largely theoretical in traditional IGA deployments:
Automated Application Onboarding – Control’s Universal Collector connects to any system or application without custom integration projects. The platform’s AI automatically discovers schemas, maps entitlements, and identifies owners, reducing onboarding time from months to hours. When APIs or schemas change, Control adapts automatically rather than breaking connectors that require manual repair.
Intelligent Access Reviews – Instead of quarterly campaigns that overwhelm reviewers with thousands of certifications, Control continuously analyzes access patterns and peer relationships to pre-triage reviews. The platform identifies obvious approvals, flags genuine outliers with evidence, and generates dynamic policies based on actual usage patterns. Reviews that previously took months now complete in days.
Real-Time Governance – Through integration with Hydden’s AI, Control enables natural language queries about identity and access. Security teams can ask questions like “Which contractors have production access they haven’t used in 60 days?” and receive immediate answers with supporting evidence. The platform continuously monitors for drift, detecting risky changes as they occur rather than months later during scheduled reviews.
“We chose Hydden as our platform because visibility alone isn’t enough; action is also necessary,” said Rob Hoffpauir, Chief Information Security and Transformation Officer at Lee Enterprises. “Its AI-driven system modernizes identity security and governance, allowing us to accelerate and simplify manual processes. Hydden’s flexible architecture and ability to connect with any data source means it can grow alongside our infrastructure and business needs, rather than the other way around. Its universal connectivity reduces the need for frequent custom integrations, minimizes coverage gaps, and lessens reliance on large IGA teams for policy and playbook creation. Security teams shouldn’t have to worry about whether their identity and entitlement data is complete or correct, yet many existing solutions raise this concern.“
About Hydden
Hydden, The Identity Visibility Company, gives enterprises the power to see and govern all identity data across infrastructure with clarity and speed. Hydden eliminates the blind spots in Identity infrastructure by continuously discovering, normalizing, and unifying identity information from legacy systems, cloud platforms, SaaS applications, databases, and edge devices. Hydden’s Unified Identity Data Layer creates a complete and accurate source of identity truth to enable real-time governance, automated access reviews, and AI-powered policy recommendations. Trusted by Fortune 500 global enterprises, Hydden helps security teams manage their identity attack surface, accelerate IAM deployments, and achieve governance at scale. Learn more at www.hydden.com.
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