Google Cloud Identity vs Idira IGA comparison

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Google and Idira by Palo Alto Networks are both solutions in the Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) category. Google is ranked #10 with an average rating of 7.8, while Idira by Palo Alto Networks is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.5. Google holds a 10.7% mindshare in IAMS, compared to Idira by Palo Alto Networks’s 1.5% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Google users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Idira by Palo Alto Networks users who would recommend it.

Google Cloud Identity

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 2, 2026

Google Cloud Identity and Idira IGA compete in identity management, with Google Cloud Identity leading in pricing and simplicity, while Idira IGA offers extensive features and integration suitable for complex enterprise demands.

Features: Google Cloud Identity benefits from integration with Google Workspace, multi-factor authentication, and strong security. Idira IGA offers identity governance, compliance reporting, and lifecycle management for complex IT needs.

Room for Improvement: Google Cloud Identity could enhance advanced security features and third-party integrations. A more detailed analytics dashboard and enhanced compliance tools could improve the solution. Idira IGA might streamline deployment processes and optimize user interfaces. Improved cost efficiency and simplified feature sets could also boost user experience.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Google Cloud Identity allows straightforward deployment, especially benefiting those using Google services, with dependable support. Idira IGA offers a custom deployment approach with excellent support for complex enterprise requirements, though the initial setup may be more involved.

Pricing and ROI: Google Cloud Identity provides competitive pricing, appealing to Google Workspace users for swift ROI. Idira IGA, although potentially higher in initial costs, offers substantial long-term ROI due to its advanced governance and compliance efficiencies.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Google Cloud Identity

Ranking in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS)

10th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) (14th), Cloud Resource Access Management (6th)

Idira IGA

Ranking in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS)

6th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Identity Management (IM) (6th), Identity Governance Administration (IGA) (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) category, the mindshare of Google Cloud Identity is 10.7%, up from 9.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Idira IGA is 1.5%, down from 1.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Idira IGA	1.5%
Google Cloud Identity	10.7%
Other	87.8%

Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS)

Featured Reviews

Sony Kurian

Director at GNX Solutions

Cloud automation has improved development efficiency and supports secure MFA and SSO

The best features in Google Cloud Identity are their cloud, their VMs, and their cloud VMs, which are too good compared to OCI. Using Google Cloud Identity is beneficial in terms of finance as we are always doing automation and AI, and it is definitely the best. I use multi-factor authentication with Google Cloud Identity. Regarding how Google Cloud Identity helps to improve security, I can say that security is something everyone is using. I do not feel any different. After this, everything will be JWT token and all things we are using. I do not feel any difference in there. I have used the SSO feature, single sign-on, with Google Cloud Identity. In a few words, how Google Cloud Identity affected user management within my organization is that it is not done for my organization but for one of my clients only. I already have the ADs there, but still, it is the best. I think the reporting tools of Google Cloud Identity are good. I cannot comment on these kinds of things for this particular product.

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Sasikiran Sakalabattina

Sr Infrastructure engineer at TechMahindra

Automated lifecycle governance has reduced manual access work and strengthens audit readiness

CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla significantly reduces manual access management efforts due to day-to-day activities. RBAC and role mining actually reduce manual access management efforts significantly. RBAC is the best feature, and it provides AI capabilities. The second feature I value most is identifying lifecycle management for joiner, mover, and leaver scenarios. CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla has one feature that provides strong access reviews, compliance reports, automation, and audit readiness with centralized governance. Centralized governance means we can handle everything at one point, making it a very strong feature. This is integrated with another feature such as SaaS integrations for strong security posture and faster provisioning with reduced operational overhead. These are the four features I value most, and with all my three years of experience, I use and appreciate these four features most. The impact of automation on my access reviews is that it automates the provisioning and de-provisioning. If I were to perform manual tasks such as provisioning and de-provisioning without automation, it would require a lot of time to handle. With this automation, we easily accomplish provisioning or de-provisioning. We simply get the Active Directory users and create the VPNs, cloud, and enterprise applications without any manual intervention. AI-driven role management and RBAC automation significantly reduce service tickets. Without automation, I would need to handle tickets, which involve a lot of manual work and requires additional manual employees. Without automation, this leads to approval delays and manual access assignment efforts. Automated access reviews provide simple audit reports, and by complying with the report, it improves audit readiness while reducing operational workload for IT and security teams.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable feature is the performance."

"I think the first thing that is great is that it gives you a lot of features, like login, and then vaulted passwords and secure LDAP, and it becomes easier for the end customer to leverage all those features without going to a higher SKU of G Suite."

"Using Google Cloud Identity is beneficial in terms of finance as we are always doing automation and AI, and it is definitely the best."

"The main control page and the ability to manage all our users from a web-based portal are the most valuable aspects of the solution. That's particularly useful because we're a heterogeneous network."

"Google Cloud Identity uses what they call organizational units (OUs) instead of the security groups you'd find in Microsoft's Entra."

"The best features of Google Cloud Identity are that it's free and works with modern applications, meaning if it's OAuth or using the OAuth protocol, it's very easy to integrate with those applications."

"The most valuable feature of Google Cloud Identity is its stability."

"The solution is moderate to difficult to use. I found the approach was practical. Following the steps made it very easy to use."

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"Overall, CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla helps us automate user access reviews, provisioning, and de-provisioning for both human and machine identities across hybrid and multi-cloud environments."

"The features of CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla that I have found the most valuable include credential masking, time-bound access, and using it for the approval of workflows and audit trails for compliance-related tasks."

"I appreciate that Idira IGA is very easy to understand and deploy."

"CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla is a very stable product, and I do not see a lot of issues with it most of the time."

"Idira IGA is a very good solution for privileged access management and stands out against the rest."

"We had these spreadsheets all over the place, but now we have a library of evidence to consult when needed. Zilla keeps everything in one place. It's not scattered all over anymore."

"Using Idira IGA has dramatically improved efficiency, requiring fewer people with significant time saved, which is one of its best features."

"Idira IGA's AI capabilities ensure that it has a proper or desired ownership of those AI governance, helping to identify if something goes wrong with particular identities and can easily track down and eliminate risks, thus cleaning our attack surface."

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Cons

"The integration should be made easier."

"Google Cloud Identity can be improved by having better integration with Active Directory, but since Active Directory is also a Microsoft solution, we don't think it will happen; that's the only disadvantage of Google."

"In the next release, I would like to see integration with different systems, mainly wireless SIEMS and other analytical systems that we want to introduce."

"I would like to see more integration in future releases."

"We cannot manage the attributes of SSPR."

"Google Cloud Identify could make the technology used easier to understand as a layman making it more user-friendly."

"The pricing for this solution is a little bit higher than AWS and others, which is something that should be improved."

"Overall, I would give a zero out of 10 for Google's support. There is no easy way to navigate issues without paid consultation, making it quite frustrating."

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"Idira IGA platform itself is somewhat complex to understand initially, so the UI and user interface could be simplified."

"For improvement, I would suggest enhancing the reporting functionality of CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla, as it could benefit from more customization or advanced filtering for auditing purposes."

"Idira IGA can be improved in addressing our core pain point of joiner, leaver, and remover, which we identify with SSO, MFA, read admin access, PAM request, and the process holistic view and hierarchy, particularly in the model and the integration part based on the HRM module or JD Edward module."

"I would still like to see more accurate AI recommendations, fewer false positive alarms, and easier integration with existing applications to make it a perfect 10."

"There is still no automated way to de-provision access as a result of a review, but they are getting there in terms of making it unified. They are getting closer to that."

"Maybe this is coming with their AI module, but I would like to see a feature that performs baseline analysis of permissions that may not fit into a role, and it attempts to group them into a role. We've run into problems with applications where someone has not created a role but assigned ad hoc permissions to a user. We still need to do some manual work to identify the group that the user belongs to. It would be amazing to have Zilla streamline that."

"The primary issue I have experienced with CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla is related to support."

"The first thing that can be improved is the central admin console."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is billed on a monthly basis depending on the number of users."

"We probably spend about $50,000 a year on licensing."

"The solution is not expensive."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten."

"I rate the product price a seven on a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price, and ten is a high price."

"Licensing fees are on a yearly basis."

"The licensing cost depends on the partners and the relationship between the company and the partners."

"When I worked on Cloud Identity, they offered a free or enterprise version. You can synchronize and create up to 100 user identities in the free version. After that, you have to purchase a business or enterprise license. In that model, you'll be charged based on the number of users."

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"It has been fair because we have been in from the beginning or close to the beginning. I know it is not truly an identity access management system yet, but its price was one of the appealing factors for us to purchase it at the time. It was reasonably priced."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Outsourcing Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	8

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	16

Questions from the Community

How does Google Cloud Identity compare with Microsoft Intune?

Microsoft Intune offers not only an easy-to-deploy data protection and productivity management solution, but also access to both Microsoft’s user community as well as around-the-clock customer s...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Google Cloud Identity?

It's crucial to monitor costs carefully, as there can be unexpected charges. I have been charged even when there was supposed to be free credit.

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What needs improvement with Google Cloud Identity?

If you are asking about room for improvement with Google Cloud Identity, whatever is there already, cost is the only problem. If you are comparing with GCP, OCI, the cost will be a little bit highe...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zilla Security?

The experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was a bit costly, and for a larger environment, it took millions, depending on the number of licenses required.

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What needs improvement with Zilla Security?

Idira IGA needs more focus on non-human identities; as we move into Agentic AI or GenAI features, we should concentrate on setting guardrails for Agentic AI and related accounts, which is a primary...

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What is your primary use case for Zilla Security?

My main use case for Idira IGA is integrations with other external applications and reconciling AD accounts with other applications, which acts as an entitlement or access provisioning and de-provi...

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Also Known As

Cloud Identity, Cloud Identity Premium

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Overview

Google Cloud Identity provides a robust platform for managing user and group access across cloud resources, enhancing security with multi-factor authentication and unifying identities with seamless single sign-on.

Offering a comprehensive range of features, Google Cloud Identity presents a web-based user management portal, group access control, and context-aware access, which significantly improves security and simplifies application-level policies. Seamless integration with Google Workspace and straightforward setup processes enhance usability, while organizational unit management supports efficient policy handling. This makes cloud-based user management both straightforward and impactful. Areas for enhancement include password management and integration with third-party applications and systems like Mac and Active Directory. The interface could also be more user-friendly, while pricing adjustments could improve competitiveness. Monitoring capabilities require better customization, and mobile device management needs refinement for wider compatibility. Strengthening customer support access and robustness would encourage smoother user experiences.

What are the key features of Google Cloud Identity?

Group Access Control: Enables management of access to resources by defining groups.
Single Sign-On: Streamlines access across applications through single sign-on.
Unified Identity Access: Provides a single view for identity management.
Endpoint Management: Manages devices accessing cloud resources efficiently.
Multi-Factor Authentication: Enhances security with additional authentication steps.

What benefits should users look for when evaluating Google Cloud Identity?

Enhanced Security: Robust security is provided through multi-factor authentication and context-aware access.
Streamlined Access Management: Simplified user and access management cuts down administrative tasks.
Integration Capabilities: Ease of integration with tools like Google Workspace enhances functionality.
Simplified Policy Management: Intuitive organizational unit management makes handling policies efficient.

Numerous industries implement Google Cloud Identity for its single sign-on and access management capabilities, which enable fine-tuned cloud resource control, multi-device authentication, and effective user administration. By integrating with systems for user authentication and identity synchronization from Active Directory, companies utilize it for enhanced collaboration and mobile device management. A unified account experience augments security with multi-factor authentication, applicable across platforms without necessitating Google Workspace.

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CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla is designed to streamline identity governance and administration by automating access controls and compliance processes, enhancing security and efficiency.

Known for its robust capabilities, CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla offers comprehensive identity governance that simplifies policy enforcement and compliance management. It enables organizations to efficiently manage user access, reducing risks and ensuring secure operations. By leveraging automation, it minimizes manual tasks and enhances productivity.

What are the key features?

Automated Access Controls: Reduces the need for manual processes by streamlining access management.
Compliance Management: Facilitates adherence to regulatory standards with built-in compliance features.
Risk Reduction: Identifies and mitigates potential security threats with advanced risk analytics.
Scalability: Supports growth by efficiently handling expanding user bases and increasing security demands.

Which benefits or ROI should users consider?

Enhanced Security: Provides robust protection against unauthorized access.
Improved Efficiency: Automates tasks to save time and resources.
Compliance Assurance: Simplifies the process of meeting regulatory requirements.
Cost-Effectiveness: Reduces expenses associated with manual identity management processes.

CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla is implemented across industries such as finance and healthcare, where regulatory compliance and data protection are critical. It helps organizations enhance their security postures while ensuring compliance with industry standards.

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Sample Customers

ExtraHop Networks, HealthChannels

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