Speaker Biography
Andras Cser
VP, Principal Analyst
Sessions Featuring This Speaker
Forrester's Security Forum 2012
05/24/2012
08:35 AM - 09:05 AM
Not Your Bermuda Triangle: The Convergence Of Identity Management, Data Protection, And Fraud Management
Fraud affects not just banks but all firms that have customer- and business-partner-facing channels: The result is rising costs of identity theft, employee fraud, and data breaches. You can only manage fraud and protect information adequately if you: 1) fully understand the permissions of identities accessing data, and 2) can separate normal transactions from fraudulent activities and anomalies in user behavior. In this session, you will learn:
- How fraud affects organizations.
- How leading firms protect information using identity and context-sensitive methods via case studies.
- How you can use IAM and fraud solutions for identity intelligence for on-premise and SaaS applications.
- How the space will evolve in the next three years.
Research Focus
Andras serves Security & Risk Professionals. He is a leading expert on identity management, access management, user account provisioning, entitlement management, federation, privileged identity management, and role design and management. Andras covers cloud security and enterprise fraud management, which have many synergies with identity and access management when an organization needs to protect against risk and wants to manage fraud appropriately. He helps clients develop enterprise strategies for creating business value through identity management, cloud security, and fraud management.
His research focuses on strategy, cost-benefit analysis, architecture, performance and scalability of identity and access management and provisioning solutions, enterprise fraud management solutions, and role-based access control (RBAC), as well as maintenance and distributed intranet and Internet identity systems. He maintains an interest in evaluating the skill sets and core competencies of professional service providers in these spaces.
Previous Work Experience
Prior to joining Forrester, Andras was a security architect with CA Technical Services through the Netegrity acquisition. Andras designed the architecture and led the implementation of Fortune 500 companies' identity and access management and provisioning solutions. Previously, Andras managed business process re-engineering projects.
Education
Andras holds an M.B.A. degree from Technical University of Budapest and Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, and an M.Sc. in computer science and electrical engineering from Technical University of Budapest.