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Report:Assess Your Identity And Access Management Maturity

Assessment Framework: The Identity And Access Management Playbook

An identity and access management (IAM) maturity model is necessary for assessing your current state against industry best practices, understanding your performance relative to that of your peers,...

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Tool:E-SSO Adoption Outpaces Other IAM Initiatives

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Client Inquiry:How Do We Synchronize User Credentials Between Sites?

We have three stores where we store user credentials. We're looking for a solution to synchronize them, and we want to avoid having to write our own programs to do this. Are there commercial...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Risk-Based Authentication, Q1 2012

The Six Vendors That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

In Forrester's 16-criteria evaluation of risk-based authentication vendors, we identified the six significant vendors in this category — CA Technologies, Entrust, iovation, RSA, Symantec, and...

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Report:Market Overview: Fraud Management Solutions

Seven Tenets Of Effectively Combating Fraud Costs

Fraud causes companies to lose money in many ways: They face losses due to chargebacks, unrecoverable transfers, and unnecessary shipping costs; and spend extensive time and resources investigating...

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Client Inquiry:Active Directory Password Policy

We're looking for current best practices and recommendations for Active Directory (AD) password policies.

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Client Inquiry:Tiered User Security Access

I'm working on a proposal for an enhanced security standard for the employees who work on matters of particular sensitivity. This would be a standard that could be "turned on" or "off" depending on...

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Report:Prevent Insurance Crime With The Four Cornerstones Of Better Fraud Management

Insurers Must Catch Up To The Sophistication Of Today's Fraudsters

Fraud costs the US insurance industry upward of $40 billion, which the industry then passes on to policyholders in the form of higher premiums. Financial crime is on the rise as fraudsters become...

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Report:Inquiry Spotlight: Consumer-Facing Identity, Q4 2012 To Q1 2013

The challenges of consumer-facing identity management, access management, and authentication differ in ways subtle and dramatic from those of the employee-facing variety. In fact, several vendors in...

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Report:Mobile Authentication: Is This My App? Is This My User?

Strategy Deep Dive: The Mobile Security And Operations Playbook

Mobile devices are everywhere: at work, in the hands of your customers, and with employees. Security and risk (S&R) professionals need to provide users with secure and seamless mobile access to...

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Client Inquiry:How Should We Implement Identity Management For External Customers With A Cloud Solution?

We are currently looking at implementing identity management for our external customers with a cloud-based solution. What are the risks associated with allowing write access to our Active Directory...

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Report:Simplify Identity And Access Management Processes To Reduce Costs, Increase Business Efficiency, And Make Users Happy

Policy And Procedures: The Identity And Access Management Playbook

This report outlines the process and procedures of Forrester's solution for security and risk (S&R) professionals looking to build their identity and access management (IAM) strategy. S&R...

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Report:Enterprise Fraud Management Predictions: 2011 And Beyond

You Must Invest In Commercial Solutions To Combat Sophisticated Fraud Rings

Forrester uncovered three major trends for 2011 that organizations and vendors alike must address to combat increasingly sophisticated fraud rings. First, fraud professionals should insist that their...

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Report:Case Study: Improving Healthcare IT With Streamlined Access To Clinical Applications

How One Healthcare Provider Improved The End User Experience Of 1,500 Physicians

In today's healthcare environment, physicians must access a wide array of IT applications to provide quality patient care. Because of the growing number of both on-premises and SaaS-based...

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Tool:Evaluated Vendors: Product Information And Selection Criteria

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Client Inquiry:How Should Our Company Strengthen Its Privileged User And Access Management?

We are looking at strengthening our processes around access management, access control, monitoring, and auditing. We have four questions: 1) what are the adoption rates for privileged account...

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Tool:Forrester's Cloud-Based IAM Self-Assessment Tool

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Report:Market Overview: Privileged Identity Management

Six New Features And Capabilities Redefine PIM Architecture

Privileged identity management (PIM) is composed of password safes, sensitive entitlement management, and session recording and auditing. It's used primarily for managing system administrator...

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Report:Your Data Protection Strategy Will Fail Without Strong Identity Context

Protecting Information Consistently With Identity Context (PICWIC) Is A Must

According to Forrester survey data, "trusted" insiders and business partners, intentionally or unintentionally, are responsible for 43% of security breaches. The recent WikiLeaks breach illustrates...

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Report:Use Commercial IAM Solutions To Achieve More Than 100% ROI Over Manual Processes

Business Impact: The Identity And Access Management Playbook

Security and risk (S&R) executives responsible for identity and access management (IAM) must manage access to sensitive applications and data because of security and compliance requirements -- and...

• Downloads: 418

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Report:Atlas Shrugged: Security Pros Must Adjust To The New Realities Of A Post-RSA Breach World

Plan Your Move To Risk-Based Authentication And Software-Based Tokens

The RSA breach presents IT security professionals with significant challenges regarding authentication and questions the security of the bulletproof hardware token hitherto thought to be invincible....

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Report:Develop Your Identity And Access Management Metrics

Performance Management: The Identity And Access Management Playbook

This report outlines Forrester's solution for developing effective objectives and metrics for identity and access management (IAM) programs and initiatives. Most security and risk (S&R) professionals...

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Tool:Forrester's Identity And Access Management Cost Model

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Report:Identity And Access Management Predictions: 2011 And Beyond

Requirements For Data Security, Mobile Devices, And Cloud-Based Services Will Forge Ahead

For 2011, Forrester predicts that IT administration efficiency and business agility will become the main drivers for using identity and access management (IAM). A bevy of acquisitions during the past...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Cloud Identity And Access Management, Q3 2012

Six Vendors That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

In Forrester's 15-criteria evaluation of cloud identity and access management (IAM) vendors, we identified the six most significant solution providers in this category — Covisint, Lighthouse...

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