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The CIAM Implications Of The Facebook/Cambridge Analytica Scandal
My fellow Forrester analysts have been covering the data and privacy implications of the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal in several excellent blog posts, such as this one and this from yesterday, but this scandal has highlighted some CIAM-specific implications that CISOs and CMOs need to assess, particularly around the future role of social login. For those […]
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M&A In The IAM Market Is Off To A Strong Start In 2018
We’re only one month into 2018 and have already witnessed a surge in M&A activity in the IAM space. Since January 1, 2018, four major IAM related deals, totaling over $1 billion (based on reported amounts and Forrester estimates on certain transactions), have been announced: • KPMG acquired Cyberinc. • One Identity acquired Balabit. • […]
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XACML is dead
Conversations with vendors and IT end users at Forrester's Security lead us to predict that XACML (the lingua franca for centralized entitlement management and authorization policy evaluation and enforcement) is largely dead or will be transformed into access control (see Quest APS, a legacy entititlement management platform based on BiTKOO, which will probably be morphed […]
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Identity Protocol Gut Check
Protocol gut check. That's how someone recently described some research I've got under way for a report we're calling the "TechRadar™ for Security Pros: Zero Trust Identity Standards," wherein we'll assess the business value-add of more than a dozen identity-related standards and open protocols. But it's also a great name for an episode of angst that […]
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