IAM – Identity And Access Management
Are they who they say they are? Digital has made identity & access management (IAM) crucial and complicated. Read our insights.
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Travel And Mobile Are Driving Decentralized Digital Identity (DDID) Growth
Recently, SITA, the multinational IT company supporting the air travel industry, announced that it would be the lead investor in the Series A funding for Indicio, a decentralized digital identity (DDID) solution provider. Find out what this means for the evolution of DDID.
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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Workforce Identity Platforms, Q1 2024
Last Wednesday, we released The Forrester Wave™: Workforce Identity Platforms, Q1 2024. We looked at the top 12 vendors in the market and evaluated them across 24 criteria. Workforce identity platforms energize a centripetal (inward) force necessary to combat the centrifugal (outward) forces that challenge identity and access management (IAM) deployments in organizations today. These […]
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Data Governance: Your Key To Unlocking An Insights-Driven Business
The key to turning data into meaningful and actionable insights across the organization lies in a frequently overlooked area — establishing a strong foundation of data governance.
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Navigate The Identity And Access Management Landscape In China
The identity and access management (IAM) market in China is still emerging but its importance and priority have grown significantly. Learn how in this blog post.
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My Key Takeaways From This Year’s Singapore FinTech Festival
In Singapore, the ease of global networking is impressive. At the recent Singapore FinTech Festival, a significant event in APAC attracting around 66,000 attendees, I had the valuable chance to connect with clients and friends worldwide. The event offered both enriching conversations and intriguing fintech product demonstrations. Here are some key takeaways from the event: […]
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Supercharge Your Defense: Level Up AI-Powered Models To Combat Fraud In APAC
As authorized push payment fraud rises, learn three things your enterprise fraud management vendor should have to better leverage AI to combat fraud.
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The Web Needs A Way Of Proving That You’re A Real Person — Worldcoin Is Not The Solution
New crypto-focused financial network Worldcoin promises to provide a “new identity and financial network owned by everyone.” But it raises more issues than it solves. Find out why.
Strenthen Security Operations With Agile SecOps
Read this report to learn how to apply agile software development lifecycle practices (SDLC) to detection and response to create engineering-driven detection operations.
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Don’t Ignore Your Employee Offboarding Processes
How offboarding is handled not only impacts your organization directly — it can also have a lasting effect on how others perceive your organization. Our two latest reports can help leaders mitigate the risks.
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Meet The New Analyst Covering IAM: Geoff Cairns
What Topics Will You Be Covering At Forrester? I am very excited to be covering identity and access management (IAM), with a focus on the workforce environment (business to employee). I will also collaborate with Forrester’s other IAM analyst, Andras Cser. Some areas and topics that I hope to explore include: How to optimize workforce […]
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The State Of Decentralized Digital Identities
Learn the value of decentralized digital identities in this preview of Forrester’s Security & Risk event, November 8–9.
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SailPoint To Be Acquired By Private Equity Firm Thoma Bravo For $6.9 Billion
On Monday, April 11, 2022, identity management and governance (IMG) vendor SailPoint announced that it was being bought by private equity (PE) firm Thoma Bravo for $6.9 billion. This is not the first rodeo for Thoma Bravo with SailPoint; in 2014, the PE firm bought out SailPoint’s original venture capital investors and remained an owner […]
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Okta Lapsus$ Compromise: How To Make Sure You’re Protected
On Tuesday, March 22, 2022, identity-as-a-service (IDaaS) provider Okta announced that it had detected an attempt to compromise the account of a partner in January 2022. The announcement came after the hacking group Lapsus$ posted screenshots of a computer used by one of Okta’s third-party customer support engineers. As one of the largest IDaaS providers with […]
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Evolve Your IAM Strategy For Today’s Digital Employee And Customer
Identity and access management (IAM) is the control plane for determining a root of trust for all digital identities. Effective IAM must validate identities, secure access, manage privileges, and be optimized for hardened security, good user experience, and operational efficiency across all user populations — your workforce, partners, customers, and machine identities. Effective and efficient […]
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SentinelOne Secures Identity First, Deception Second, In Attivo Acquisition
Endpoint security and extended detection and response (XDR) vendor SentinelOne today announced the acquisition of Attivo Networks for just over $600 million. Attivo was a darling of deception technology, but SentinelOne was really after its Active Directory protection portfolio, including ADAssessor and ADSecure. Enterprise identity plays a critical role in the Zero Trust world mandated […]
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Don’t Hit The Curb — Instead, Curb The Risk Of Emerging Technologies In 2022!
Find out why these five technology categories are causing security decision-makers the most concern.
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S&R Forum 2021: Passwordless Authentication Adoption Is Gaining Momentum
Passwordless authentication, in the form of inherence factors (e.g., fingerprint, facial) or in the form of possession factors (e.g., device, app, token/certificate) and supplemented by other factors (e.g., location, user behavior), is an emerging authentication technology that will protect organizations from brute force attacks, credential stuffing, phishing, and social engineering tactics. If carefully selected and […]
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Perspectives On One Identity’s Acquisition Of OneLogin
On October 4, 2021, identity and access management (IAM) vendor One Identity announced plans to acquire identity-as-a-service (IDaaS) vendor OneLogin for an undisclosed amount. Founded in 2009, OneLogin is an established pure-play IDaaS vendor that primarily serves midmarket enterprises, with a unified platform for employees, partners, and customers, and has raised over $170 million in […]
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Okta Acquires Identity Orchestration And CIAM Vendor Auth0 For $6.5B
Forrester analysts take a detailed look at what's driving the unprecedented premium being paid in this acquisition.
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GRC And IAM — Better Together
Struggling to define where GRC ends and IAM begins? Get a clear breakdown of how the two functions should work together in a broader risk management strategy.
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It Is A Privilege To Announce The Forrester Wave™: Privileged Identity Management (PIM), Q4 2020
Bad puns in the title of this blog post aside (queue the rolling of the eyes, sigh, and slight smirk), we are pleased to announce that “The Forrester Wave™: Privileged Identity Management (PIM), Q4 2020” is now live. While PIM vendors have been adding new capabilities and improved user experience over the past two years, […]
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